26 February 2007

Eleven titles to be added to Xreferplus Ready-Reference Service

Xrefer, provider of customizable online reference collections to libraries worldwide, has signed an agreement with Routledge to integrate eleven of their award-winning titles into the Xreferplus Ready-Reference collection.

With this new agreement, Xrefer will now provide its users with the following titles, all of which were named Outstanding Reference Sources by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association:

• Encyclopedia of African History
• The Encyclopedia of American Folk Art
• Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
• Encyclopedia of German Literature
• Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms
• Encyclopedia of Paleontology
• Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
• Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work (RUSA award: 2004 Dartmouth Medal Honorable Mention)
• Reader's Guide to British History
• Reader's Guide to the History of Science
• Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences

"We are particularly pleased to add these 11 substantial reference works, many of which are multi-volume, to Xreferplus," commented John Dove, Xrefer CEO. "That these reference titles have been recognized by RUSA and reference librarians for their quality gives us confidence that users will find them a very useful addition to the Xreferplus experience."

About Xrefer
Xrefer, with offices in London and Boston, has been offering completely customizable reference collections for libraries since 1999. Its Xreferplus Ready-Reference and Specialist Reference services combine extensive content from multiple publishers with unique cross-referencing technology, effortlessly delivering authoritative answers to over four million researchers worldwide. Visit www.xrefer.com.