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Information Today
December 17, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
xrefer Launches xreferplus Digital Reference Service for Libraries xreferplus is a giant online reference library that provides access to an aggregated and integrated collection of 100 reference books from 21 leading publishers, including Oxford University Press, Penguin, Grove, Houghton Mifflin, Columbia, and Macmillan...   |
Information Today
April 2001
Peter Jacso |
Internet Insights - xrefer: An Xcellent British Dot-Com This free service masterfully integrates the best British ready-reference sources via cross-references and cross-links... |
ONLINE
September 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Ready-Reference Collections: Bartleby and xrefer Bartleby and xrefer offer free searchable access to full-text standard reference works with hundreds of thousands of individual entries... |
Information Today
September 8, 2008 |
Credo Reference Launches Improved Interface Credo Reference, the online reference library, has completely updated and enhanced its interface. |
Information Today
December 19, 2011 |
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf to Re-Launch in 2012 This will be the essential hub to all Oxford University Press reference content, re-launching with improved functionality and design. |
Information Today
September 17, 2012
Barbara Quint |
Literary Scholarship and More From Oxford Authoritative sourcing is critical in humanities scholarship, and few institutions in the world are more respected than Oxford University. Now the Oxford University Press has launched a new service, Oxford Scholarly Editions Online. |
Information Today
June 28, 2010 |
Reference Universe now links to CQ Researcher and to CREDO Reference Reference Universe is an information service designed specifically to unlock a library's reference collection. |
Searcher
April 2002
Jill E. Grogg |
Thinking About Reference Linking Information professionals need to be aware of the technical and organizational interests and obstacles associated with reference linking in order to better serve their users... |
Information Today
May 16, 2013 |
Credo Releases 12 New Perpetual Access and Subscription Collections Libraries now have even more options for enhancing their Literati solution or Credo Online Reference Service with essential titles. |
Information Today
March 21, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest New partnerships: Nstein and Visual Analytics... McGraw Hill licenses reference titles... Onfolio, Inc. partners with Thompson ResearchSoft... |
Information Today
December 4, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Ingenta Releases New Subscription Management Service... Wolters Kluwer Health Launches PubFusion 2.0... ProQuest Adds Oxford University Press Titles to Literature Online... |
D-Lib
March 2006
Schibel & Rydberg-Cox |
Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics. |
Information Today
June 16, 2003 |
News Digest Nstein Launches Nserver Version 3.0... Alacra to Distribute Global Insight's Content... xreferplus Gets MP3 Files |
Information Today
April 22, 2010 |
Oxford University Press Launches New Online Resources Oxford University Press has released the online edition of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome |
Information Today
November 5, 2009 |
Credo Reference to Launch SAGE Reference Publisher Collection Nearly 70 SAGE titles will now be available through the Credo Reference platform. SAGE is an international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. |
Information Today
July 12, 2010 |
Credo Reference Adds More Titles From SAGE Reference Now, all SAGE Reference titles published between 2000 and 2010 as well as all titles to be published in 2011 will be available through the Credo Reference platform. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2013
Kern & Klampfl |
Extraction of References Using Layout and Formatting Information from Scientific Articles The automatic extraction of reference meta-data is an important requirement for the efficient management of collections of scientific literature. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Mick O'Leary |
E-Book Scenarios Updated Almost 3 years ago in this column I made sweeping forecasts for the future of e-bookss). Some of them have occurred exactly as predicted, and stand as proof of my prescience and insight. As for others... well, let's not dwell on the past |
D-Lib
February 2003
Janes & Silverstein |
Question Negotiation and the Technological Environment People seeking answers or providing them now have many more options for "question negotiation", in the broadest Tayloresque sense. Consulting an information professional continues to be one of those options. In fact, such professionals can now be much more accessible. |
Information Today
July 29, 2010 |
U.S. Public Libraries Can Provide High Schools with Free Credo Reference Access Recognizing the increasing burden on public libraries to support the research needs of students at local schools, Credo Reference will be made available to a library's local public high school(s). |
D-Lib
February 2003
Jeffrey T. Penka |
The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference: An Overview This discussion of technological challenges associated with digital reference focuses on challenges libraries face in establishing and supporting an efficient, patron-focused digital reference service, based on library values. |
Information Today
November 11, 2010 |
Continuum Titles Join Oxford University Press Digital Reference Shelf As part of a new distribution partnership Continuum is making a critical selection of its high-quality scholarly reference titles available through the Digital Reference Shelf platform, providing students and scholars with a single online source. |
Information Today
October 6, 2003 |
NewsBreaks xrefer Launches Upgraded Service... FIZ CHEMIE Offers Subject-Specific Search Engines... EBSCO Acquires Cinahl... etc. |
D-Lib
February 2003 |
In Brief Report on the First AHDS Copyright and Digitisation Workshop... Getting a Handle on Federal Information: Persistent Identification Using Handles... Report on the 4th Annual Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) Conference... Multilingual Applications of the DOI: the mEDRA Project... etc. |
Information Today
February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology. |
Information Today
January 17, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Answers.com Turns GuruNet Free The digital reference service GuruNet Corp. has switched from a subscription fee business model to an advertiser revenue model with its launch of the free Answers.com service. |
Searcher
September 2004
Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Yet Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 2 Chat reference has not turned out to be the panacea many libraries hoped for. Our funds are too limited and our reference and basic library services far too important to squander money on services that don't work. |
Information Today
September 2004 |
NewsBytes VNU Exhibitions Europe Acquires Library + information Show... SwetsWise Welcomes BioMed Central's Open-Access Journals...Thomson Study Reveals Weak Correlation Between Self-Citations and Impact Factor... etc. |
D-Lib
February 2001
Manfred Thaller |
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one... |
D-Lib
November 2001
John C. Matylonek |
Organizing Ready Reference and Administrative Information with the Reference Desk Manager As reference desk responsibilities become increasingly complex and communication becomes more problematic, a web database to collect and manage this non-academic, local information can be very useful... |
D-Lib
June 2003
Kenney et al. |
Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers This paper presents the results of a modest study to compare and contrast its digital reference services with those of Google Answers. The study provided an opportunity for librarians to gain insights into how Google's approach to service development and delivery has made it so attractive. |
Information Today
June 17, 2010 |
ABC-CLIO eBooks Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library "By adding these titles to Gale Virtual Reference Library, we are expanding our reach and are providing librarians, students, and researchers with greater access to our ebooks," says Tom Fitzgerald, ABC-CLIO's vice president of sales. |
D-Lib
February 2003
R. David Lankes |
Current State of Digital Reference in Primary and Secondary Education This paper examines the domain of digital reference services for and by the primary and secondary education community. Data is provided to demonstrate the current understanding of education question types and education users in digital reference. |
Information Today
April 19, 2010 |
Credo Reference Adds Princeton University Press Titles These are the first Princeton University Press titles to be made available on the reference service. |
Information Today
April 1, 2002 |
News Digest Oxford Puts Reference Works Online... Convera Introduces New Search and Retrieval Software... ProQuest Introduces ProQuest Reference Asia |
Information Today
March 2001
Laverna Saunders |
Building the Virtual Reference Desk The distribution of electronic full text to users wherever they are has resulted in fewer transactions at the reference desk. Librarians, therfore, are eager to learn about using developments in digital reference services as a strategy for reaching patrons... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2001
Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference Reference encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri remain some of the most valuable tools that aid in the completion of student research projects. This article presents the electronic versions of many reference industry favorites... |
Searcher
August 2004
Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 1 Add it all up and one can see that virtual reference built on chat technology is a pretty expensive proposition. |
Information Today
March 15, 2010 |
Infobase Ebooks Now Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library This allows libraries to provide access to popular ebooks from Facts On File and Ferguson Publishing along with more than 4,500 existing electronic reference titles, expanding the library's offerings while avoiding duplicated resources. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Mick O'Leary |
QuestionPoint Fortifies Libraries in Internet Age QuestionPoint puts the collective expertise of libraries around the world at the service of an individual reference question. It promises to help libraries regain "information market share" from the public Web. |
Information Today
April 14, 2011 |
World Book Content Searchable Through EBSCO Discovery Service A recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing and World Book, Inc. will bring 12 reference tools into EBSCO Discovery Service. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Out-Googling The Top Search Engine Online encyclopedias yield more specialized results. |
Information Today
July 18, 2011 |
WorldCat Content Coming to Credo General Reference Service With this new agreement, OCLC member libraries that subscribe to the Credo General Reference service will be able to retrieve a list of books from WorldCat related to the topic of their Credo Reference search. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Abby A. Goodrum |
Visual Resource Reference: Collaboration Between Digital Museums and Digital Libraries The question faced by libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in this world of visual information is how to respond to a growing public demand for 'round-the-clock' networked accessibility to multimedia, images and image collections. |
Information Today
January 12, 2012 |
Credo Reference and Swets Announce New Partnership Under the agreement, Swets will incorporate Credo Reference with more than 1,500 reference works from more than 80 of the world's best reference publishers into the SwetsWise eBook catalog. |
Information Today
March 15, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Xrefer, a provider of online ready reference services to academic, public, and corporate libraries, announced that it has integrated the CIA World Factbook into its xreferplus subscription service, adding interactive and exportable data tables to enrich the content. |
Information Today
March 17, 2011 |
Credo Reference Expands M.E. Sharpe Content M.E. Sharpe publishes social sciences and humanities resources, including titles in economics, political science, management and public administration, history, and literature. |
Information Today
September 4, 2008 |
Thomson Reuters Releases Reference Manager 12 for Windows Thomson Reuters announced the release of a major upgrade to Reference Manager for Windows, its bibliographic citation management software that has a true multiuser network version. |
Information Today
October 2000 |
Fact City Partners with Houghton Mifflin to Offer Online Access to Combined Reference Information Houghton Mifflin will provide Fact City with the brand-new fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography, Wall Street Words, and A Who's Who of Sports Champions... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2000
Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference The following Web resources and CD-ROMs acquaint students with an abundance of information at the click of a mouse... |
