EIFL has signed a three-year renewal agreement with Infobase for Credo Reference Service: Academic Core, an online reference database with authoritative content from over 900 e-book titles,  with an emphasis on encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks, covering over 80 major subject disciplines and more than six million research concepts. 

In addition to full-text content, the Academic Core Collection provides access to more than 1,000 videos and animations, as well as 500,000 contextual visual aids, images, photographs and maps.

The agreement, which runs until 2027, is available to library consortia and libraries in 36 EIFL partner countries.

The following 36 countries are eligible for discounted access to Credo Reference Service: Academic Core:

Armenia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Botswana, Congo,  Côte d'Ivoire, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, Ghana, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Malawi, Maldives, Moldova, Myanmar, North Macedonia, Namibia, Nepal, Palestine, Senegal, Serbia,Slovenia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe

More about the EIFL-negotiated agreement for Credo Reference. Interested libraries should contact the EIFL Licensing Coordinator in their country.