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Britannica Online®
Library Edition
The Only Online Reference Site Created Specifically for Public Libraries
- Four complete encyclopedias:
- Encyclopędia Britannica®
- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
- Britannica Junior Encyclopedia
- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
- Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Quotations
- Gateway to the Classics
- The New York Times, BBC News, and SBS World News headlines from around the world
- Web links selected by Britannica editors
- World Atlas
- Timelines
- Spotlights
Because your library serves a community of different ages and different interests, you require one multimedia reference source
that meets the needs of all patrons. Britannica Online Library Edition delivers three products in one: separate home
pages for adults, teenagers and children allow libraries to tailor the product to their patrons' needs, making it easy-to-use and
age-appropriate for everyone.
Highlights:
- Intuitive interface for easier navigation: Articles include an interactive Table of Contents,
page numbers, and section headings to help orient users within each article.
- Over 75,000 articles from the Encyclopędia 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.
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