News release: Xrefer and A&C Black team up for Who's Who Online

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

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Xrefer and A&C Black team up for Who's Who Online 

Famous biographical reference title now has xrefer's unique searching and
browsing functionality.

BOSTON, MA, and London, UK, February 2, 2005 - Xrefer and A&C Black are
delighted to announce that Who's Who 2005 and the full Who's Who archive
Who Was Who are now available to search and browse on the xreferplus
Specialist Reference platform.

Who's Who is the essential annual resource for accurate, detailed and
up-to-date information on people of influence and interest. It was first
published in 1849 and contains over 30,000 biographies of people from all
walks of life.

Institutions whose libraries purchase access to Who's Who 2005 online via
xrefer will enable their users to search and browse for anyone whose
biography has been included in the latest edition of the famous reference
work. In addition, users will enjoy full access to the 10 volume archive
of Who Was Who, which is fully integrated with the latest edition of Who's
Who. Who Was Who contains details of over 100,000 deceased biographees and
dates back over 100 years to 1897 and is no longer available to purchase
in print in full.

With the addition of xrefer's unique browsing interface, users can browse
for biographees according to their profession, company or institution,
education, address, birthday, birth year, recreations or decorations. They
can also see which entrants are new in the latest edition of Who's Who.
More information is available on the xrefer website at
http://www.xrefer.com/ww2005 and the complete news release is at
http://www.xrefer.com/news/index.jsp?m=2#ww2005.

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