SCELC Vendor Day 2008: About CREDO Reference

Credo Reference (formerly Xrefer)
Credo Reference is a vast, online reference library, providing access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles. Credo's huge library of over three million entries is made easily accessible in engaging and entertaining ways – a concept map for visual learners, dynamic tables to make statistics meaningful, interactive maps, timelines to put events into historical context and talking dictionaries. Credo brings the facts alive with images, sound files, animations, videos and much more.

Preview Credo's exciting new user interface! The demonstration will highlight our improved interface which marks a major update to the Credo Reference web site. New features include a multi-language interface, faceted search, entry preview and the ability to expand searches to your catalog and other resources. Plus, visualize your search with our new concept map.

Credo Reference is constantly expanding and currently offers nearly 300 quality reference titles on every major subject from 58 of the best publishers. Credo Reference contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature. Customize your collection by choosing the titles that match your needs.

Credo Reference provides:

• citation management
• numerous access options, including IP authentication, remote access and library card login
• free MARC records for your OPACs
• comprehensive COUNTER-compliant usage statistics
• metasearch and OpenURL compliance. Users at libraries with a link resolver can link from cited references to the cited books and articles themselves.