Here's an interesting & useful web site that you may want to bookmark - or
add to your websites pages. You can search by topic, and get full text
references from all of the titles listed below, with hyperlinked
cross-references.
A description follows.
Check it out!
Carole G.
>http://w1.xrefer.com/search.jsp
>
>xrefer, a new search engine launched on 30 May, has taken a good idea
>and improved upon it. The good idea is to aggregate dozens of reputable
>reference works in electronic form and make them searchable from a
>single interface. The improvement is to generate automatic cross-
>referencing, not only within individual works but also across the entire
>collection. With licensed texts from Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Oxford
>University Press and Penguin, xrefer's online offerings include:
xrefer's content by category
search facts
A Dictionary of Business, Oxford University Press
A Dictionary of Law, Oxford University Press
A Dictionary of Science, Oxford University Press
Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature
Bloomsbury Guide to Art
Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought
Concise Medical Dictionary, Oxford University Press
Dictionary of Accounting, Oxford University Press
Dictionary of Biology, Oxford University Press
Dictionary of Medicines, Oxford University Press
Grove Concise Dictionary of Music
Market House Books Dictionary of British History
Market House Books Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Oxford Companion to English Language
Oxford Companion to English Literature
Oxford Dictionary of Art
Oxford Dictionary of Music
Oxford Paperback Encyclopedia
Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women
Penguin Business Dictionary
Penguin Dictionary of Economics
Penguin Dictionary of Music
Penguin Dictionary of Psychology
Penguin Dictionary of Sociology
Penguin Encyclopedia of Places
Penguin International Dictionary of Finance
The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press
search words
Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
Bloomsbury Good Word Guide
Bloomsbury Thesaurus
Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Penguin Rhyming Dictionary
Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English
search quotes
Bloomsbury Biographical Dictionary of Quotations
Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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>Searching is quick and straightforward, with a simple interface, clean
>design, and search box on every page that make using this site a snap.
>Each retrieved record includes the main entry and then two additional lists:
>one of cross-references from other works in the collection, and another of
>adjacent entries, all in the form of hyperlinks to new records with *more*
>cross-references and adjacent entries. xrefer serves up information quickly,
>but makes it hard to resist the invitation to linger over the links.
>
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