Credo Reference
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Reference/Database services |
| Headquarters | 201 South Street, 4th Floor Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Key people | Chief Executive Officer: Mike Sweet President: John G. Dove Vice President of Product Development and Innovation : Terry Zysk Vice President of Operations: Jill Rosa Vice President of Worldwide Sales: Carol Helton |
| Products | Credo General Reference Credo Publisher Collections |
| Website | corp.credoreference.com |
Credo Reference, formerly Xrefer, is a company that offers subscription-based online reference content. It provides full-text online versions of more than 700 published reference works from over 70 publishers,[1] including general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias.[2]
History
The company was founded in 1999 and has offices in Oxford, England, and Boston, Massachusetts. It changed its name from Xrefer in 2007 and its England office moved from London to Oxford the same year.
Output
Subscriptions are available to academic, government, public and company libraries. Access to Credo Reference is free to end-users provided their library is a subscriber. Rather than selling pre-configured content packages, librarians can select which titles they wish to subscribe to within Credo General Reference and manage the selection throughout their subscription period by swapping titles in and out.
Between 2000 and 2003, Xrefer offered a free site[3] supported by advertising, and was one of Wikipedia's main competitors as a free content encyclopedia.[source?] When the dot com bust caused Internet advertising revenues to collapse, Xrefer launched a premium subscription variant, called Xreferplus. On 17 June 2003, the gratuit "Xrefer showcase" service was discontinued.
References
- ↑ Lampasone, Lauren (2008-11-15). "General Reference E-Reference Ratings". Library Journal. Media Source, Inc. Archived from the original on 2011-04-13. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
Credo Reference. Credo Reference. www.credoreference.com The simple search field on the front page belies the sheer volume and quality of information in Credo Reference (formerly Xrefer). Users can get to one of the three million–plus entries contained in over 360 reference sources from about 60 publishers through precise searching or a more general concept map.
- ↑ Jack O'Gorman (2008), Reference sources for small and medium-sized libraries (7th ed.), p. 11, ISBN 9780838909430
- ↑ wayback
Further reading
- Golderman, Gail; Connolly, Bruce. "eReviews: General Reference Sources and Short Takes", Library Journal.com, Oct 15, 2010.