Date submitted: 03-25-2008

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Credo Reference online reference service

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www.credoreference.com Credo Reference, our award-winning service, is the world's largest online reference service featuring over 270 full-text reference titles with over 3 million entries from 60 highly-respected publishers integrated in a robust search engine with many unique interactive features. Credo Reference subscribers enjoy unlimited, simultaneous and remote user access at a very reasonable price. Credo Reference also provides MARC records for all titles, Open URL Linking, training webinars, user guides, and many other promoting capabilities. Credo Reference has many new unique interactive features such as dynamic table functionality for world, state, and county statistics, an interactive world atlas, flash animations, videos, poetry/literature readings, music files, and our critically-acclaimed concept map. Credo Reference also features over 175,000 images, over 200,000 audio pronunciations, and a citation formatter in APA, MLA, and Chicago formats. Credo Reference also recently launched a "Did You Mean" feature which offers suggestions to misspelled words. Credo is launching a new platform this spring with seamless outbound searching into other library resources, facet technology, our new and improved concept map, and much more. We have a fully-functional beta version of the new platform that can now be accessed for evaluation purposes.

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Credo Reference offers a wide range of full-text, authoritative reference titles from 60+ publishers. Credo’s constantly expanding collection contains dictionaries, bilinguals, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering art, biography, business, food, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, social sciences and technology. Our collection continues to grow as we add new titles and update titles when new versions become available. Over 80 new and updated titles were added to Credo Reference in 2007. The following in-depth, encyclopedic books (mostly RUSA award winners) from Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Greenwood, Gale and Edinburgh University Press were recently added: · Encyclopedia of African History · Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century · Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms · Reader's Guide to the History of Science · Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences · Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850 · Reader's Guide to British History · Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work · The Encyclopedia of American Folk Art · Encyclopedia of Paleontology · Encyclopedia of German Literature · Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development · Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, Gale · Dictionary of Italian Literature, Greenwood · Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature, Greenwood · Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Greenwood · Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia, Greenwood · Dictionary of Existentialism, Greenwood · Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy, Greenwood · Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press · Handbook of United States Economic and Financial Indicators, Greenwood To see a full list of titles currently available, please click on the following link http://corp.credoreference.com/titles Credo Reference also continually adds new titles to the reference collection and updates existing titles as new versions become available. The following 54 titles will soon to be released into the Credo Reference collection within the next 3-4 months from ABC-CLIO, Routledge, Harvard University Press, NYU Press, Cambridge, Greenwood, ALA Editions, Dorling Kindersley, and Bridgeman. · Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, ABC-CLIO · American Economy, The: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO · Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law, ABC-CLIO · Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present, ABC-CLIO · Public Opinion, Polling, and Democracy Around the World: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO · Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An Global Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO · Canada's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook, ABC-CLIO · Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries, ABC-CLIO · Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs, ABC-CLIO · Immigration and Asylum from 1900 to Present, ABC-CLIO · Former Yugoslavia's Diverse Peoples, The: A Reference Sourcebook, ABC-CLIO · Iran's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook, ABC-CLIO · Mexico: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Culture and History, ABC-CLIO · Nigeria's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook, ABC-CLIO · South Africa's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook, ABC-CLIO · The Former Soviet Union's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook, ABC-CLIO · Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers, ABC-CLIO · Conspiracy Theories in American History, ABC-CLIO · African-American Writers: A Dictionary, ABC-CLIO · Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO · Science in the Contemporary World: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO · Science in the Early Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO · Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO · Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO · Bridgeman History of Science (over 12,000 Art Images) · Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease · Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Philosophers, Routledge · Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, Routledge · Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Routledge · Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Routledge · Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, Routledge · Dictionary of World Philosophy, Routledge · Encyclopedia of 20th Century Technology, Routledge · Encyclopedia of Empiricism, Routledge · Encyclopedia of Ethics, Routledge · Encyclopedia of Mexico: History. Society & Culture, Routledge · Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, 2nd Edition, Routledge · Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, Routledge · Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Routledge · Financial Times World Desk Reference, Dorling Kindersley · Fundamental Reference Sources, 3rd Edition, ALA Editions · Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children, Routledge · International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, Routledge · Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, Routledge Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Harvard University Press · Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, Harvard University Press · The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965, Harvard University Press · New Harvard Guide to Women's Health, Harvard University Press · Notable American Women, A Biographical Dictionary 1607-1950, Harvard University Press · Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary: Completing the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press · Notable American Women, the Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary, Harvard University Press · New Encyclopedia of Judaism, New York University Press · Recommended Reference Books for Small and Medium-sized Libraries and Media Centers, Greenwood · Reference Sources for Small and Medium-sized Libraries, 7th edition, ALA Editions

What is the intended core audience for the product?

The core audience for Credo Reference is for all academic levels. Credo Reference offers a wide breadth of coverage of all subject areas and depth of focus in each subject area which provides all academic institutions with an excellent general reference product for their students.

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