Our Platform
Best-in-class technology
The value of Credo Reference lies in not only the high caliber of our thoughtfully selected content but also in the innovative platform through which users can explore, discover and be inspired. In the fall of 2008 Credo Reference launched a new platform, raising the bar on the delivery of online reference content.
Credo’s enhanced search results enable users to narrow and focus their search, and users can easily continue their search in other library resources such as the library catalog and periodical databases. Credo's related entries provide millions of cross references that connect the content across title and publisher, providing even more avenues for discovery.
Extend your search…
With one click, view the same search in another library resource. Use Credo’s Librarian Admin to configure links to your OPAC, journal databases or other resources.
Interactive and engaging features including:
- Improved Concept Map - great for visual learners and for exploring and brainstorming research topics.
- Dynamic statistical tables
- Audio pronunciations
- Multilingual interface - English, Chinese, French, Polish, Spanish and Urdu are currently available.
- Hundreds of animations and videos
- Audio files: poems, plays, literature, music…
- Bookmark and share entries using Twitter, Facebook, Digg and many other popular tools
- Citation management – export saved results to the user’s tool of choice, such as RefWorks or EndNote.
- Explore titles by heading, person, place, image, audio or video.
- Gadgets - including our crossword solver, quotations search and conversions tool
The Credo Reference interface is highly customizable. Libraries have the flexibility to: select the default search screen from any of the four search options (Basic, Advanced, Find a Book, Concept Map), add library logos for library branding, add menu links to any three library-selected web sites, as well as include Ask-a-Librarian services on the interface.
(For more information on the process by which the new interface was developed please see our presentation for the 2009 ALA Midwinter Technology Showcase, annotated slides are available here.)
