It also has a facility that allows you to compare data between nations and create instant reports, graphs and tables for research or homework. You can also search once, then click between the results on all three of these interfaces. You can Search, or use an A-to-Z feature, or Knowledge Navigator. There are three ways of accessing information. You can also update the materials – which is a big bonus.īritannica is designed like a Web site, with a homepage which is always within reach. Alternatively, you can run a partial install, which is much lighter on resources, but requires disk-swapping during use. You can install the whole thing onto your hard disk. The materials add up to a hefty 2 GB over three CDs, and there are two options for using them. On top of this impressive library of data, there are 12,000 photos and maps, timelines on science, ecology, medicine, music and literature plus 125,000 active hyperlinks to resources on the Internet you can trust. There are 100,000 articles and entries on practically everything you could imagine - all of them authoritative, and some written by distinguished scientists and authors, such as Albert Einstein and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Other outstanding features are audio and video clips, natural language searching, and a series of topic tours – showing you superb multimedia presentations of chosen topics - from Aviation to Wildlife. They have also added the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and a world atlas packed with statistics and facts. The latest CD version includes all the material from the 32-volume print edition, and there’s more too. Britannica started in the mid-18th century and went on to become the world’s most famous encyclopaedia.
That’s the revolution in digital technology for you - and a lesson in eCommerce. Now it’s available on CD for the price of a single book.
Just imagine – people used to take out long-term loans to buy the multi-volume printed edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. The world’s largest print encyclopedia – on one DVD
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