Credo Online Reference Service, Academic Core Collection

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Credo Online Reference Service, Academic Core Collection (Access from the locations of the University of Ljubljana, CTK, and NUK. Remote access for students, alumni and employees of the University of Ljubljana who are members of the UL, CTK, and NUK libraries)
Social Sciences and Humanities Natural Sciences and Technology Linguistics Encyclopedias, lexikons, handbooks Dictionaries Biographical data

  • Credo Online Reference Service, Academic Core Collection is an ideal collection to start your search when you need explanations of terms, biographical data, and more because it contains over 650 reference works (encyclopedias, atlases, vocabularies, handbooks, biographical lexicons, and more) from a variety of disciplines (philosophy, music, geography, linguistics, fine arts, medicine, natural sciences, law, psychology, sociology, technology, religion, history, and more) and numerous publishers including Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Routledge, SAGE, Wiley-Blackwell,etc.

    Inside the collection you can expand your initial search to other quality resources (Related Resources) such as Encyclopedia Britannica (general encyclopedia), Oxford Art Online (encyclopedia of fine arts), Oxford Music Online (encyclopedia of music), Oxford English Dictionary (dictionary), Slovene Biography, dLib, and other multidisciplinary collections by various providers (EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and others).

    In one place Topic Pages display the contents available in Credo as well as in other resources.

    Also available are various Tools used to search for definitions of concepts, persons, pictorial materials, sayings, etc. The interface enables users to play music and translate texts (Google translate). Mind map presents a search option that displays search results in the form of mind maps (a network of associated representations of topics).

    Language: English
    Also available at: University of Maribor, University of Primorska, and University of Nova Gorica
    Source is provided by Consortium COSEC NUK

  • Provider: Credo Reference