Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus)

• The musical 'Guys and Dolls' was based on the stories by which writer?
• What does a koala bear normally eat?
• Who said 'Peace cannot be kept by force'. It can only be achieved by understanding'?
• Who said “Football isn't a matter of life and death – it's much more important than that”?
• I need a full colour map showing the extent of medieval Turkish empires between 1038 and 1492.

An electronic reference library that is the ideal starting point for research on any subject. With 125 searchable and browsable reference books (dictionaries, encyclopædias, thesauri, quotations, atlases and much more) from a collection of the world's leading publishers, xreferplus will help you find the facts, words, concepts, people, places and sayings that you need!

It even has a crossword solver where you can enter the letters you already know and add question marks ? for those you don't know.

Use the Research Mapper to find information quickly when you want to expand your knowledge of a given area or if you don't know exactly what to look for. You can use it when you want your search results in a visual form, want more context for your research, want to see more results on a single page or don't know what you don't know... and want to find out!

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