What is Credo Reference?
'''Credo Reference''' 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,<ref name='Credo Reference'>{{cite web | url = http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6612289.html | title = General Reference E-Reference Ratings | access-date = 2011-04-13 | last = Lampasone | first = Lauren | date = 2008-11-15 | work = Library Journal | publisher = Media Source, Inc. | archive-url = https://www.webcitation.org/5xvIHdJEb?url=https:/// | archive-date = 2011-04-13 | quote = Credo Reference. Credo Reference. www.credoreference.com From a simple search field on the front page users can access one of the three million–plus entries. | url-status = live }}</ref> including general and subject [[dictionary|dictionaries]] and [[encyclopedia]]s.<ref>{{citation |title= Reference sources for small and medium-sized libraries |page=11 |author=Jack O'Gorman |year=2008 |edition=7th |isbn=9780838909430 }}</ref> ==History== The company began in 1999 and has offices in [[Oxford]], England, and [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. It changed its name from Xrefer in 2007. Subscriptions are available to academic, government, public and company libraries. Access to Credo Reference is free to users if their library is a subscriber. Librarians can select which titles they wish to subscribe to within Credo General Reference. They can manage the selection during their subscription period by swapping titles in and out. Between 2000 and 2003, Xrefer offered a free site<ref>[http://waybackmachine.org/20010801000000*/http://xrefer.com wayback]</ref> supported by advertising, and was one of [[Wikipedia]]'s main competitors as a [[free content]] encyclopedia.{{Citation needed|date=March 2010}} When the [[dot com bust]] caused Internet advertising revenues to collapse, Xrefer launched a premium subscription variant, called ''Xreferplus''. On 17 June 2003, the free service stopped. ==References== {{reflist}} ==More information== * Golde