NYIT Library Blog

The NYIT Libraries are now conducting a trial of Credo Reference online. Credo Reference (formerly X-refer) is the world’s largest online reference service, featuring:

• 280 full-text reference titles (and growing) with over 3 million entries from 60 highly-respected publishers integrated in a robust search engine.
• Unlimited, simultaneous and remote user access at a very reasonable price.
• 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, over 1,000 music files, and our critically-acclaimed concept map.
• More than 175,000 images from all subject areas, over 200,000 audio pronunciations, and a citation formatter in APA, MLA, and Chicago formats for all articles.
• “Did You Mean” feature offering suggestions to misspelled words.
• MARC records for all titles, training webinars, user guides, and many other promoting capabilities.
• New platform with seamless outbound searching into other library resources, facet technology, our new and improved concept map, and much more.

The trial is now active and will remain so through May 30th, 2008. In support of the trial are a list of titles currently available, and trial guide. You can begin your search now, and if you are interested in NYIT’s subscribing to this product feedback can be e-mailed to library@nyit.edu.