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xreferplus: 145 new online reference works

University Library now offers access to xreferplus, a suite of 145 important online reference works linked at the individual title level in NUcat, the Library's online catalog. For an overview of all reference works by subject, go to the xreferplus home page.

A few of the full-text reference works available through xreferplus include:

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology (1992)
The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary (2002)
Atlas of the Bible (1985) with very nice historical maps
Biographical Dictionary of Artists (1995)
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1993)
A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (1997)
Business German Dictionary (2001)

To call up the xreferplus reference works in NUcat, search for "xrefer" as author.

Publishers include Andromeda (UK), Blackwell, Bloomsbury, Bridgeman Art Library, Cambridge UP, Cassell & Co., Chambers Harrap, and Columbia UP, among others.

Other large omnibus reference packages launched by University Library in the last two years include:

Oxford Reference Online
More than 100 reference works

xipolis
24 major reference sources (in German)