[eccr] Scholarly publisher plans largest online reference

Scholarly publisher plans largest online reference
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The Oxford University Press says a new effort to turn many of its
well-known reference books into online databases could create one of the
largest stores of general knowledge on the web.

The company on Wednesday launched the first stage of its Oxford
Reference Online, unveiling what it calls 'the Core Collection' - more
than 1.5m entries from nearly 100 of Oxford's English and bilingual
dictionaries, collections of quotations and subject reference books.
When Oxford Reference Online is complete, it could weigh in at more than
130m words, or what the company said is equivalent to about 300 books.

The Oxford University Press said the results so far reflect two years of
work by its US and UK arms and an investment of more than $1.5m. With a
subscription fee of $250 a year, Oxford Reference Online will not be
cheap for readers, either, but the company said 1,000 institutions are
already on board for free trials.

Newsbytes - March 20, 2002
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175356.html

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