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Meet "The Anti-Google"

Rejecting the perceived omnipotence of crowds -- and their preferred platforms like Google and Wikipedia -- Oxford University Press has launched a collection of professionally-produced, peer-reviewed bibliographies in different subject areas.

Ars Technica calls the new Oxford Bibliographies Online service "the Anti-Google," and "sort of a giant, interactive syllabus put together by OUP and teams of scholars in different disciplines." Users can explore specific bibliographic entries, which contain descriptive text and a list of references that link to either Google Books -- or to subscribing libraries' own catalog entries -- by either browsing or searching. Along with concerns over factual accuracy, OUP undertook this project to save professional researchers time. You can't come up with a search filter that solves the problem of information overload," Damon Zucca, OUP's Executive Editor of Reference told Ars. Rather, Zucca is betting that the solution to the problem lies in the caliber of content available.

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