Credo Reference ... Smart Research Starts Here

Credo Reference is a completely customizable general reference solution for learners and librarians.  Offering more than 485 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.  Their content, technology and customer service have earned rave reviews.

Credo Reference enhances the content by adding millions of cross-reference links - related entries - that cut across topics, titles and publishers to deliver accurate, contextual results.  Related entries connect results from sources across the entire collection, including images and sound files, enabling you to get relevant answers from a number of sources at once.

Credo General Reference services feature full-text, aggregated reference content covering every major subject.  Subscribe to Credo 100 and choose any 100 titles or Credo 250 and choose any 250 titles to best suit your needs.  With Credo's Collection Management Tool, you can change your content selection at any time during the life of your subscription to keep up with the evolving needs of your patrons.  Subscribe to Credo Unlimited and get the entire General Reference Collection with automatic access to new titles as they are added.

Credo Publisher Collections (formerly Specialist Reference) deliver in-depth, subject-specific expertise from some of the world's leading publishers.  Publisher Collections are available as a stand-alone option or alongside a subscription to one of Credo's fully customizable General Reference solutions.  All publisher collections are available for subscription and select collections offer purchase options as well.

A Credo General Reference Subscription provides:

• Unlimited simultaneous users, remote access and 24/7 delivery

• Range of access options including IP-based, library card and Athens authentication

• Free MARC record

• Static URLs for each topic, title and entry can be incorporated into your subject guides, site pages or virtual learning environments

• Email templates to promote Credo Reference to your students, faculty and colleagues

• Usage reports, updated daily, detail number of visits, features used, top search terms, entries viewed and more

• COUNTER-compliant usage statistics

• Marketing materials to promote the service in your library, including weekly brainteaser email posters and user guides

• Downloadable toolbar enables one-click searching of Credo Reference
   

Credo Reference Platform - Best-in-class technology

Credo's innovative and intuitive, easy-to-use platform offers a highly customizable interface.  The Credo Reference platform allows libraries to customize the research experience with seamless searching of their other resources including the library catalog, periodical resources, specialized databases and more. 

Libraries can select the default search screen from any of four options (basic, advanced, find a book, concept map), library logos can be added for library branding, menu links can be added to any three library-selected web sites as well as ask-a-librarian services.  Use Credo's Librarian Admin to configure links to your OPAC, journal databases and other resources.

Interactive and engaging features include:

• Concept Map: a visual map that displays how search terms and topics in Credo Reference are interconnected - great for visual learners and for exploring and brainstorming research topics.

• Dynamic statistical tables

• Audio pronunciations

• Multilingual interface - English, Chinese, French, Polish, Spanish and Urdu are currently available

• Hundreds of animations and videos

• Audio files: poems, plays, literature, music ...

• Bookmark and share entries using Twitter, Facebook, Digg and many other popular tools

• Citation management - export saved results to the user's tool of choice, such as RefWorks or EndNote

• Explore titles by heading, person, place, image, audio or video

• Gadgets - including Credo's crossword solver, quotations search and conversions tool

Topic Pages: The Librarian's answer to Wikipedia!  New!

Credo Reference is pleased to introduce Topic Pages - a new approach to presenting and organizing information resources.  Credo developed Topic Pages to provide context and vocabulary around a subject and act as a starting point for research - all on one page.  Every Topic Page assembles topical material from many resources from within and outside of the library.  You choose which resources will be displayed on your own customized version of Credo Topic Pages.

A Closer Look at a Credo Topic Page

• Credo Resources ... Where do I start?  The top section contains a full-text topic overview from an authoritative reference work, dictionary definitions, related topics and additional articles and images available from the Credo Reference service.  It's about providing students with an orientation and tools for further study.

• Library Resources ... What else does my library have on this topic?  Configurable by librarians, this section is designed to bring in search results from additional selected databases and repositories, as well as results from your catalog and your e-book collections.  Your valuable resources become more visible and more useful!

• Free Web Resources ... Thoughtfully selected valuable free web content on many topics, for additional depth and currency.  Library configurable.

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“Strong content, accessibility, and impressive scope earn [Credo] a resounding ten.”  -- Cheryl LaGuardia, Library Journal, February 2009

"Credo really seems to get it." -- Library Journal, January 2010

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