New Custom Linking Option Means More Results for Credo Reference and EBSCOhost® Customers

14 April 2009

Boston and Oxford -- Customers of Credo Reference and EBSCO Publishing now have access to more content thanks to a new custom linking agreement. Mutual customers of Credo Reference and EBSCOhost® are now able to expand their searches and easily link from one resource into the other.

Credo Reference is now able to offer custom linking results to related subjects in EBSCOhost. The linking agreement will allow Credo Reference customers to start a search in Credo Reference and continue the same search into EBSCOhost. In Credo, users will see a link in the result list that says “continue search in EBSCOhost” while in EBSCOhost, users will see a link in the result list that says, “Search for related subjects through Credo Reference.”

Credo Reference is a leading provider of full text reference services for libraries and information centers with a growing collection of over 400 subject encyclopedias and other reference works consisting of an aggregate of 3.1 million entries all interconnected by millions of links. EBSCOhost is the most-used research platform available and provides close to 300 databases comprising one of the largest collection of online databases.

Credo’s content is available through EBSCOhost CustomLinks™, a library of linking resources that allows libraries to link to full-text databases, OPACS, ILL systems, free resources and search engines. EBSCO has a deep linking library and is also able to create a variety of different CustomLinks for use with EBSCOhost databases upon request. Credo Reference will provide access to EBSCOhost content through its Resource Links technology. Credo’s customers can provide links for their users to a wide range of resources, such as journal databases, OPACs, search engines and free resources.

Credo Reference, with offices in Oxford and Boston, has been offering completely customizable reference collections for libraries since 1999. Credo's General Reference and Specialist Reference services combine extensive content from multiple publishers with unique cross-referencing technology, effortlessly delivering authoritative answers to millions of researchers worldwide. Visit www.credoreference.com.

EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company’s product lines also include proprietary databases which are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com.