Credo Reference
Credo Reference is an online reference resource that provides access to the full text of subject-specific reference titles, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases from a wide variety of publishers. Credo guides students through topics and concepts using visualisation tools and extensive cross referencing. Constantly expanding, it contains over 3 million entries from over 400 titles, including over 200,000 multimedia items and allows seamless searching of your other library resources.
There are three subscription options for this resource: Credo 100, Credo 150, and Credo 400+
Notes
Credo 400+ was formerly known as Credo 250+
Credo provides a powerful starting point for study and research in any subject with its multi-lingual interface. The three subscription options provide access to a wide range of reference material, which includes subject-specific scholarly titles, dictionaries, bilinguals, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases. Constantly expanding, Credo offers more than three million entries in over 400 acclaimed titles from a large selection reference publishers. All the content is integrated with millions of cross-references which provide students with a thorough understanding of a subject.
Credo 100
This option allows you to choose any 100 titles from Credo Reference. You can change your content selection at any time during the life of your subscription.
Credo 150
This option allows you to choose any 150 titles from Credo Reference. You can change your content selection at any time during the life of your subscription.
Credo 400+
This option gives you access to all the titles from Credo Reference (except the specialist reference titles), and your subscription is automatically updated when new titles are added.
Notes
Credo 400+ was formerly known as Credo 250+
Subject areas
This is a multidisciplinary resource and covers anthropology, art, astronomy, biography, biology, business, chemistry, computer science, ecology, economics, education, engineering, environmental studies, food, geography, geology, history, language, law, literature, mathematics, media studies, medicine, midwifery, music, nursing, palaeontology, philosophy, physics, politics, psychology, quotations, religion, sociology, technology and zoology.
Timeline
Ancient history to the present.
Academic level
This is a reference resource suitable for all academic levels.
Updates
There are regular updates of new editions and new titles throughout the year. Updates are seamless and automatically reflected in the collection. Credo added 120 new titles last year. In the first quarter of 2009, we added 40 new and updated books to Credo Reference. To see a complete list of available titles, visit http://corp.credoreference.com/titles.
Content selection
Credo's titles come from over 60 reference and academic publishers in both the UK and US, such as ABC Clio, Bloomsbury, Bridgeman Art Library, Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, Elsevier, Greenwood, Harvard University Press, Macmillan, Taylor & Francis and Wiley–Blackwell. Content is selected for its focus on core academic subjects, and as a result of recommendations from experts and requests from librarians.
Recent reviews of Credo Reference
Credo Reference has recently been featured in a number of reviews and articles.
Information World Review described Credo as an "online reference tool that is a pleasure to use, well conceived, well thought out and equally well executed."
Library Journal gave Credo the highest scores of all 176 resources evaluated in Library Journal’s new 2009 E–Reference Ratings feature. The best-known and respected electronic reference resources were reviewed in fourteen key subject areas, judging them on seven criteria that librarians use most when considering what to buy, including their scope, writing, design, "bells and whistles," ease of use, linking and value. Of all the resources evaluated, Credo Reference was the only one that received four–out–of–four star ratings for all seven criteria.
"[Credo's] strong content, accessibility, and impressive scope earn it a resounding ten.",
Cheryl LaGuardia, Library Journal, February 2009
"Credo Reference's pursuit of excellence in the e–reference world is working."
Information Today, February 2009
The subscription fees for Credo Reference are only available to the UK higher and further education community who are visiting our website from the ac.uk domain.
Information on how to subscribe to Credo Reference is only available to the UK higher and further education community who are visiting our website from the ac.uk domain.
Credo Reference has agreed to extend access to additional authorised users. If you want to participate, print the appropriate licence, complete Schedule 2, and return it to the publisher. Contact details are provided on the licence.
- Additional authorised user licence for educational use : this licence will enable institutions, for an additional fee, to provide access to defined user groups at partner organisations for educational purposes only. The partner organisation may be within the UK or overseas.
- Additional authorised user licence for commercial use : this licence will enable institutions, for an additional fee, to provide access to defined users in small and medium sized enterprises funded by or affiliated to a university for the purposes of commercial research and development.
Full-text linking
This resource is OpenURL compliant and supports both outbound and inbound linking.
Federated searching
Federated searching is available via an XML gateway, a Z39.50 compliant server, or via a base URL using the 'get' method.
Credo Reference is integrated with Ex Libris SFX, Serials Solutions 360, WorldCat link Manager, MetaLib, 360 Search, WebFeat, Muse Metasearch, Talis Prism and ZPORTAL.
MARC records
MARC records (including MARC 21) are available to download free of charge.
Search options
Users can search across the entire collection or at subject level or at title level, using standard and fuzzy search options. Search results can be refined in many ways including by content type, such as images or audio. Users can view search results in any EBSCO Publishing databases that the library subscribes to and librarians can configure Credo to show search results from their selection of other resources, allowing seamless linking from resource to resource.
Post-search options
Users can save, email, and print entries, export references to citation management tools and easily share entries using a number of popular social network and bookmarking services.
Usage statistics
Statistics are COUNTER compliant according to the code of practice for books and reference works.
Additional customisable usage reports include the number of sessions, the number of searches performed, the number of entries displayed, the top entries viewed, the top search terms, the number of times specific features were used, and the number of entries viewed by title.
Authentication
Authentication can be via the UK Access Management Federation, ATHENS, IP range, and username and password.
Personalisation of the resource
Institutions can add their logo to the interface, link to their OpenURL server, add custom menu links, shape the collection by title selection to suit their own needs, and set search ranking preferences.
Accessibility
This resources meets the majority of priority 1 checkpoints and some priority 2 checkpoints of W3C’s accessibility guidelines.