What is it?
Credo Reference is the ideal starting point for any research project, helping students at all levels build essential research and critical thinking skills. Its vast multidisciplinary content, as well as its Mind Map and other features, encourage exploratory search, and its integrated search connects with major library databases to surface even more content.
Build your library
Supplement your core subscription with Credo Essentials–subject-based content sets that deepen coverage and encourage exploration in key areas:
- Art, History, & Humanities
- Business Studies
- Contemporary Issues
- Nursing, Allied Health & Wellness
- Social Sciences
- STEM
Why it's great
Trusted starting point
Jump-start research with a premier full-text reference source that builds context, promotes critical thinking, and supports core information literacy competencies.
Visualize related topics
Interactive Mind Map and other features promote exploratory search and help students build connections, encouraging inquiry and strengthening information literacy.
Teach basic resource evaluation
The wide range of content and integrated federated search empower students to make informed research choices and think critically about where they get their information.
Research, inquiry, and access tools
Mind Map
This is a graphical representation of related concepts and terms that supports research inquiry.
Federated Search
The service searches multiple resources at once and presents the results from each, connecting more library resources for broader inquiry.
Citation Tool
Move from information seeking to communicating by extracting the necessary resource citation for use in a variety of citation managers.
Classroom Integration
LTI 1.3 converts Infobase content into core curriculum and learning experiences.
Trusted content providers
I’ve nicknamed Credo Reference the ‘professor-approved … Wikipedia.’ I encourage students to begin all their research assignments with Credo Reference.”
Troy Espe, librarian, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
Have questions? Want to see a demo? Connect with an expert however you like: email, phone, video, or in person.
What's trending
