Erik Moeller wrote:
Credo Reference ( http://www.credoreference.com/ , formerly Xrefer) has generously agreed to provide up to 100 free accounts to their reference library (more than 2 million articles from countless reference works), for research purposes. If you might find this useful, please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Credo_accounts and follow instructions to apply. There's a minimum requirement of 600 edits and six months participation.
These accounts will be given on a first come, first serve basis. There's no bigger underlying master plan - I've met with them a couple of times, and they want to help.
First, let me say this is simply awesome.
I can't help but note some mildly humorous points; which should not be taken to denigrate or floccinaucinihilipilificate the value of this wonderful offer...
They have classified Devil's Dictionary (by Ambrose Bierce) under "Language". I am sure it is a common slip up. I know for a fact a library I ran for a spell, had prior to me put Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland in the non-fiction section under mathematical science.
As a more personal note, there is a very quirky synchronism at play, as I just noted this morning that moored in the harbor outside my window, is a cargo ship which appears to be bringing coal for the power plant there. The name of the ship:
http://www.eslshipping.com/portal/en/fleet/m.s._credo/
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
P. S. I wonder if somebody who worked on my spell-checker has a sense of humor... doing the spell check, it made the suggestion that "floccinaucinihilipilificate" should be replaced with "antidisestablishmentarianism". Oh well, sesquipedalian is as sesquipedalian does.