xrefer Names John G. Dove Chief Executive Officer

["Ellen McCullough" <ellen.mccullough@xrefer.com>]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE		

xrefer Names John G. Dove Chief Executive Officer
Industry veteran to lead innovative online ready reference service

BOSTON, MA, November 10, 2003- xrefer, the online ready reference service
that provides authoritative, aggregated content to academic, public and
corporate libraries, announced today that John G. Dove has been named
chief executive officer of the company.

John has 35 years of experience in information-based businesses including
financial services, management consulting, electronic publishing and
education.  He served as President and Chief Operating Officer of
SilverPlatter, where he oversaw the company's worldwide sales, content and
market development, technology, electronic publishing operations and
Internet services.

John started his career as a software developer and systems architect at
Interactive Data Corporation, later served as Vice President of Product
Development at Computer Corporation of America, taught in an MBA Program
in Shanghai, and was a vice president of Symmetrix, a management
consulting firm serving Fortune 500 businesses.

Most recently, John has been working with the e-Government Executive
Education Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government,
which focuses on strategic and change management issues relevant to
e-government initiatives worldwide.  John has been instrumental in
initiating their eGovernment Compass, a Web-based enhancement to their
executive education program for strategic computing.

xrefer's Managing Director Adam Hodgkin has been named President, and will
focus on content acquisition and business development.  "I am very pleased
to have John Dove join xrefer," said Hodgkin.  "John's knowledge,
experience and energy will help xrefer as we embark on our next phase of
growth and continue our mission to provide libraries and their users with
the best online ready reference service available.  He will be invaluable
in helping us serve the key constituencies of a successful business:
customers, employees, business partners and shareholders."

John said, "Adam and his team at xrefer have built a compelling product
and business concept.  For any user frustrated with searching through page
after page of data to find definitive, authoritative answers, xreferplus
is indispensable.  I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to bring this
capability to a much larger audience."

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About xrefer
xrefer (www.xrefer.com) delivers technology-enhanced online reference
services to libraries and their users worldwide.  The company's flexible
subscription service, xreferplus, features authoritative, aggregated
content from over 150 reference books, with 1.3 million entries covering
such subjects as medicine, art, technology and more.  xreferplus adds
value with proprietary cross-reference technology that integrates the
content across topics, titles and publishers to provide contextual
results.  A privately-held corporation, xrefer was founded in London,
U.K. in September 1999 and has its North American headquarters in
Boston, Massachusetts.

For more information contact Ellen McCullough at (617) 426-5710, by fax,
(617) 426-3103, or by e-mail, ellen.mccullough@xrefer.com.

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Ellen McCullough, Marketing Director
xrefer
31 St. James Ave., Suite 370
Boston, MA 02116
ph: 617-426-5710
fx: 617-426-3103
www.xrefer.com 

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