ALDIE, Va., April 3, 2013 – Paratext announces that thousands of links to nearly 250 Major Reference Works from Elsevier’s ScienceDirect will be integrated into Paratext’s Reference Universe service. Elsevier’s Major Reference Works provide foundational content that gives cross-disciplinary perspective to researchers, librarians, teachers and students worldwide. They serve a broad spectrum of scientific, technical [...]

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For those of you who aren’t familiar with Reference Universe, it’s a great little product that indexes the content of reference works.  They have thousands of entries and add new content regularly.  They announced this week new content from Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online.  Below is the text from their blog post. Paratext [...]

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From a Paratext press release: Paratext is pleased to announce that links to the reference works from the Sharpe Online Reference collection have been added to the nearly 50,000 scholarly subject encyclopedias and other reference titles accessible via Reference Universe.    Sharpe Online Reference (SOLR) includes the titles that make up the U.S. and Global [...]

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From a Paratext Press Release:  Paratext announces that thousands of links to more than 125 major reference works on Wiley Online Library will be integrated into Paratext’s Reference Universe service.   Wiley Online LibraryWiley Online Library, launched last summer provides access to the peer-reviewed, award-winning content published by Wiley-Blackwell, including Wiley-VCH. Over 125 reference works deliver [...]

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Paratext announced another new enhancement to the Reference Universe service, namely, you’ll now find your library’s e-reference collections more clearly branded within your library’s Reference Universe query, making it easier for you to focus in on the resources you value the most. In addition to showing your entire collection in a single view–ebook as well [...]

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Paratext has integrated thousands of links to more than 150 Major Reference Works from Springer into the Reference Universe service.  Paratext’s Reference Universe is the only cross-searchable database that supports article and index-level discovery of major reference works from more than 750 imprints.  The service focuses exclusively on subject encyclopedias and scholarly compendia–the authoritative introductory [...]

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Paratext has made some changes to the interface of Reference Universe.  RU is a great discovery tool for print and online reference collections as it provides a searchable index of the entries and TOC of reference sources.   Here are some of the changes you’ll see: A ‘Location’ snapshot, showing results in both e- and print [...]

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Reference Universe, from Paratext, has added links to several popular reference works including: full text links to CQ Researcher, 1991- present, over 800 citations many new titles in CREDO Reference including over 2 million citations to 389 CREDO Reference titles 1000+ titles from Gale’s Virtual Reference Library from 2008-2009 are also being loaded into the [...]

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From a Paratext Press Release: Blackwell Reference Online Now Accessible through Reference Universe AUSTIN, Texas (February 11, 2010)-Paratext announces the addition of links to 450 e-titles within Blackwell Reference Online from the Reference Universe platform. Blackwell Reference Online brings together Wiley–Blackwell’s critically acclaimed Blackwell Companions and Handbooks, as well as major encyclopedias, including the Blackwell [...]

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The recent “Off The Shelf” column in Booklist features a discussion of Paratext’s Reference Universe.  This and previous columns are linked on the NSR articles page.

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