Credo Reference

Credo Reference
legal form	under private law
founding	1999
Seat	Boston , Massachusetts, USA
Website	Credo Reference

Credo Reference , formerly Xrefer , is a subscription-based digital library containing reference works that can be accessed via the Internet ( online lexicon ).

history

The service was founded in 1999 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. There is also an office in Oxford (formerly London ).

Between 2000 and 2003, Xrefer was ad-supported, freely accessible and one of Wikipedia's main competitors as an open access encyclopedia. When the dot-com bubble burst and internet advertising revenues collapsed, Xrefer launched a subscription version called Xreferplus . On June 17, 2003 the free "Xrefer showcase" service was discontinued. The name change to Credo Reference took place in 2007. The service operates under the motto: "Smart research starts here."

Content

Credo Reference contains online versions of 541 English-language encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, collections of quotations and specialist books from more than 70 publishers (as of May 2011). These include works by Blackwell Publishing , Cambridge University Press , Collins , Elsevier , Encyclopædia Britannica , Faber and Faber , Macmillan , Merriam-Webster , Pearson Education , Penguin , Routledge , Springer , Wiley and some American university publishers.

Using the search function, it is possible to look up the entire inventory with one query or to search through individual works. The full texts of the works contained in Credo Reference are specially prepared for the Internet. Credo Reference itself creates so-called “Featured content” or “Topic pages” on current or otherwise popular topics, which are selected from the general offer. Not all of the recorded content is always available. Sometimes there are no pictures or additional essays.

A citation aid with several citation styles (APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA) is provided for each article .

subscription

Use is only possible with a subscription that is only available to academic, state, public and private libraries. End-users can access the works through a library to which the subscription takes place. Librarians can choose from the selection which titles they want to subscribe to. The selection can also be changed during the term of the subscription.

literature

Gail Golderman, Bruce Connolly: eReviews: General Reference Sources and Short Takes . In: Library Journal.com. October 15, 2010. Retrieved June 7, 2011 (Critical overview of Credo Reference versus other offerings - Gale Cengage Learning, Oxford Digital Reference Shelf, SAGE Reference Online, ABC-CLIO, Britannica Online, Grolier Online, Reference Universe, and World Book).

Individual evidence

↑ Credo Reference: What is Credo? ( Memento from September 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 14, 2011.
↑ Credo Reference: Participating Publishers ( Memento of September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 14, 2011.
↑ Credo Reference: What is Credo? ( Memento of September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 14, 2011.

[1] Credo Reference: What is Credo? ( Memento from September 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 14, 2011.

[2] Credo Reference: Participating Publishers ( Memento of September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 14, 2011.

[3] Credo Reference: What is Credo? ( Memento of September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 14, 2011.