Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition

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The exceptional depth of coverage, combined with the power and breadth of the Internet, makes the search for information using the award-winning Encyclop�dia Britannica Online Academic Edition easier and more exciting. The new user-friendly interface provides more organized and richer results. Additional features including news headlines, safe web sites, engaging multimedia, and custom workspace make Encyclop�dia Britannica Online Academic Edition the comprehensive resource your users need.

Highlights:

  • Improved interface for easier navigation: Articles now include an interactive Table of Contents, page numbers, and section headings to help orient users within each article.
  • Over 75,000 articles from the Encyclop�dia Britannica, including 23,000 biographies.
  • Magazines and News Headlines: Get headlines from The New York Times, the BBC, the SBS Australian News Service, and full-text articles from more than 700 magazines and periodicals provided by EBSCO and Proquest.
  • Gateway to the Classics: An introduction to significant works of history, literature, philosophy, and science.
  • Web Links: Access 166,000 Web sites selected by Britannica editors for additional quality information.
  • Vivid graphics and multimedia: Over 27,000 images and maps, plus 3,300 animations, videos, and audio files engage users and bring articles to life.
  • Extensive World Atlas: Search thousands of maps, flags, articles, and statistics. Compare economic, demographic, and health measures for over 200 countries.

In addition to EBOAE, libraries have the option of adding a number of additional related databases.

  • Annals of American History Online
  • Webster�s Third New International Dictionary
  • World Data Analyst (now free with the subscription to Britannica Online Academic Edition)
  • Britannica�s Original Sources
  • Enciclopedia Universal en Espa�ol (Spanish Encyclopedia)
  • (NEW) Britannica Online Global Reference Centre: The Britannica Online �Global Reference Centre� is an extensive collection of Britannica�s foreign language content, offering trustworthy information in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, and French encyclopedias.

Detailed information on each product can be found at http://www.eb.com/library/online/index.html

Licence Dates:  01-Oct-2009 to 30-Sep-2010
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GODOT-enabled:  No
Licence Participants:  Participating Sites
Vendor:  Britannica
Content Producer:  Britannica
Simultaneous Users:  Unlimited
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Chronological Coverage:  Historical, current
Update Frequency:  Continuous
Content Types:  FullText
Number of Fulltext Titles:  73,000
More Information:  http://www.eb.com/