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Credo Reference has been enjoying great reviews in the media. Here's just a sampling:

"Having watched Credo evolve over the past eight years, we’ll be very interested to see where [their] new initiatives lead."
--Booklist, May 2009

Credo Reference named a Best Reference for 2008 by Library Journal in the General Reference category
--Library Journal, April 2009

"[Credo's] strong content, accessibility, and impressive scope earn it a resounding ten."
--Library Journal, February 2009

"Credo Reference's pursuit of excellence in the e-reference world is working"
--Information Today, February 2009

"Credo Reference provides an impressive array of searching options within an easy-to-use interface...Highly recommended."
--CHOICE, February 2009

 "Credo Reference inspires the task of searching... it's almost as if it wants you to discover more."
--Information World Review, October 2008

"[Credo] does the most impressive job of covering multimedia resources, and... its interface presents some of the most innovative efforts to provide tools for working with its content."
--College and Research Libraries, September 2008

"Credo Reference offers top quality titles and extensive subject coverage from acclaimed publishers…the user will find searching clean, uncomplicated and intuitive."
--The Charleston Advisor, July 2008

First vendors compliant with COUNTER Code of Practice for Books
Coutts-MyiLibrary, Greenwood Publishing Group and [Credo Reference] are the first three vendors to achieve compliance with the new COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works. As such they are providing their customers with credible usage statistics that can be used to assess the value of the growing number of online books now available.
--COUNTER press release

"Guides the researcher to the most relevant information related to his or her research."
--Against The Grain

"If the enormous potential of [Credo Reference] is any indication, the prevailing reference question in the library world should no longer be the trite 'Print or electronic?' but instead 'How to cross-reference?' And if you haven't already heard of [Credo Reference], the company behind this simple but unique approach to reference, and you want a highly flexible but publisher-neutral online collection made up only of the titles your library needs, this cross-referencing system may well be your best bet."
--Library Journal

Winner, Outstanding Electronic Reference, CILIP/Nielsen BookData:
"A librarian's dream and a student's delight."

"A vast, ever-growing and stylishly designed interlinked reference library... Both useful and beautiful."
--The Guardian

"May well become the killer app in the ready reference category... Will surely rise to the top of every library's reference links."
--CHOICE

"Like Answers.com, [Credo Reference] retrieves information for queries through a streamlined user interface. This subscription service trumps its free counterpart with more abundant content and search/display capability; its million entries and searching functionality are topnotch."
--Searcher

"The beautifully simple search page will be a welcome sight to a generation that has grown up on Google... The ability to perform cross reference searching across a large reference collection is liberating and powerful."
--Library Journal

"What is exceptional about [Credo Reference] is its cross-referencing system, which unites content throughout the entire database in effective and innovative ways."
--Information Today

"[Credo Reference] brings valuable and new resources to your digital ready-reference desk with innovative software.... A very good resource for large public and academic libraries."
--Péter Jacsó, Péter's Digital Reference Shelf

"For many reference aficionados, the collections available at [Credo Reference]... make the site worth a prominent bookmark or link."
--ONLINE

"The notable feature in [Credo Reference] is its incredible cross-referencing capabilities... A reliable, easy to use, fast and ready reference tool that can streamline your information search."
--Library Quarterly

"An ideal addition for public, college (two- and four-year), university, and perhaps some high school library settings."
--The Charleston Advisor

"One of the things we liked about [Credo Reference] was the 'magic ingredient' of cross-referencing. All of the titles in the database are linked, so that a search not only yields expected results, but also leads the user down some circuitous and surprising byways."
--Booklist

"Another product that everyone will get is [Credo Reference]."
--American Libraries

Credo Reference was named an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE, 2002