Vision and Mission
At Credo Reference our vision, and the guiding principle behind everything we do, is to promote information literacy and research effectiveness. In support of this goal, our mission is to partner with librarians and publishers to provide a discoverable and compelling online reference service that learners and researchers of all types cannot do without.
Credo Reference is the only online reference service providing all the following benefits: Discovery, Context, Connection, and Innovation to Learners, Libraries, and Publishers.
- Visibility of your library on the open web with Topic Pages
- Customized discovery of institutional resources through related resources
- Meeting users where they are through partnerships with educational and related online services
See how Credo's Topic Pages increase discovery!
- Over 3.5 million entries from 1,300+ titles available with hundreds added every year
- Powerful cross-references across topics, titles and publishers speed exploration
- Comprehensive subject coverage from general/subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, quotations, thesauri, video, music, and images
- Avoid information overload with subject-specific search results and seamless linking to related library resources
Learn more about Credo content!
- Seamless integration with all library resources and services—print and electronic
- Topic Pages provide subject-specific path to pre-searched results of relevant resources
- Enhanced XML (non-PDF) content presentation provides connections facilitating discovery
Preview our Concept Map to see the connections between Credo topics in a visual way!
- The Concept Map aids visual learning and helps with brainstorming and research planning
- Topic pages frame the start of an inquiry and provide direction and connections for further study
- Commitment to partnerships and continuously improving technology to provide more value to end-users
- Advanced search options make the content, videos, music and images on the Credo platform easily utilized
See the value of Credo Reference in its innovative platform!
Credo Reference provides the following services to its three core constituencies:
- Gives users a compelling place to start research on a new topic, providing both “big picture context” and subject-specific vocabulary needed to continue the research process
- Less time spent searching and finding
- Access to trustworthy content
- Tools to quickly build their bibliography
- Connection to other trusted resources: “Related Resource” and “Topic Page” linking connects users to relevant e-resources materials
- Brainstorming and discovery made easy with the “Concept Map” and ”Related Entries”
- Bringing libraries to learners
- Allowing libraries to invest in high-quality, specialized subscription and perpetual purchase reference collections to meet the needs of their end-users
- Increasing value from e-resources: “Related Resources” and “Topic Pages” features allow librarians to customize the research experience for their end-users
- Promoting greater usage: Discoverability and compelling research experiences (Using “Concept Map”, “Related Entries” and other features) increase information literacy
- Expand current markets
- Enter new markets
- Gain understanding of today’s learners
- Meeting the needs of modern libraries
Want your library to try out Credo Reference? Click HERE to sign up for a demo.
