Oxford and Boston, 4th May 2010 - Credo Reference, the award-winning online
reference library, has signed an agreement to integrate five Princeton
University Press titles into the Credo General Reference collection.
One of the leading American university presses, Princeton University Press
publishes approximately 250 innovative books written by the greatest minds
in academia each year, in a wide variety of disciplines. With this new
agreement, Credo users will have full access to the high-quality content of
these well-reviewed and award-winning reference works:
. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (CHOICE Outstanding
Academic Titles, 2009)
. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (CHOICE
Outstanding Academic Book, 1993)
. The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy
. The Handbook of Economic Sociology
. The Princeton Guide to Ecology
Credo has also signed an agreement to integrate two key Purdue University
Press works into the Credo General Reference collection. These are the first
titles from Purdue University Press to be made available on Credo.
Purdue University Press publishes 35-40 books, videos and web-based products
annually, focusing on business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, the
humanities and sciences. Its cutting-edge knowledge compendiums provide
answers for academics, students, professionals and institutions. With the
new agreement, the high-quality content found in these titles will be
accessible through Credo:
. A Biographical Dictionary of People in Engineering: From Earliest
Records Until 2000, by Carl W. Hall - contains the names, nationality, field
of expertise, dates and a biography of over 3,500 important inventors and
engineers worldwide (culled from histories, biographies, literature and
handbooks, over many centuries).
* One Hundred and One Botanists, by Duane Isely - essays from
Aristotle (384 B.C.-322 B.C.) to Winona Hazel Welch (1896-1991), surveying
the achievements of the people who created and sustained botanical science
over two millennia.
Founded in 1999, Credo Reference, with offices in Oxford and Boston, has
been offering completely customizable reference collections for libraries
since 2002. Credo's General Reference services combine extensive content
from multiple publishers with unique cross-referencing technology,
effortlessly delivering authoritative answers to millions of researchers
worldwide. Publisher Collections allow libraries to augment their collection
with specific, deep reference content from highly-regarded publishers. Visit
www.credoreference.com and http://blog.credoreference.com
<http://blog.credoreference.com/> .
An independent publisher, Princeton University Press has been publishing
scholarship of the highest quality on all levels, regardless of commercial
viability, since 1905. The Press' fundamental mission is to disseminate
scholarship through print and digital media, both within academia and to
society at large. <http://www.press.princeton.edu/>
www.press.princeton.edu.
Purdue University Press, founded in 1960, is the publishing arm of Purdue
University. Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional
information, the Press provides quality resources in several key subject
areas including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine and other
limited disciplines in the humanities and sciences.
http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/
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