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T.H.E. Journal
August 1999
Jim Schneider |
Focus on Reference In that spirit, this month's Software Focus-On will take a look at reference software....   |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2000
Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference The following Web resources and CD-ROMs acquaint students with an abundance of information at the click of a mouse... |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2001 |
CD-ROM Dictionary Includes 21 Search Functions Merriam-Webster has released a new version of Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Deluxe Audio Edition, with 21 separate search options and an easy-to-read interface... |
PC World
November 2000
Glenn McDonald |
New Internet Tools Beef Up Encarta 2001 Microsoft's Encarta Reference Suite, the popular electronic encyclopedia, has some new capabilities that make it definitely worth a look. In particular, its Researcher tool allows you to capture Web information easily... |
PC Magazine
February 2, 2007
Sean Carroll |
Encyclopedia Britannica 2007 Ultimate DVD The Encyclopaedia Britannica is slowly shedding its stodgy image while still retaining its editorial excellence. |
Macworld
December 2001
Henry Bortman |
World Book Mac OS X Edition Aquafied encyclopedia is an able research assistant... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2001
Andrew Taylor |
ABC-CLIO Interactive's The Civil Rights Movement in the United States Civil rights is an issue many educators neglect in favor of less controversial topics. But with the new interactive encyclopedia, The Civil Rights Movement in the United States from ABC-CLIO, teachers and students have 500 articles and a host of multimedia materials to explore... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2004 |
Britannica Revamps Its Online Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Britannica has revamped its Britannica Online School Edition to offer a more user-focused look to better accommodate younger visitors. |
Macworld
October 31, 2005
Teague & Teague |
Encyclopedia Software Two of the most popular physical encyclopedias, World Book and Encyclopedia Britannica, have recently updated their virtual equivalents. Plus, the free Wikipedia Dashboard widget now makes it even easier to look up information. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009 |
World Book Student by World Book World Book has updated its Online Reference Center with new features and a new name. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2001
Matthew E. Coenen |
2000 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia The Grolier 2000 Multimedia Encyclopedia (GME) contains over 37,000 articles, and more if you take advantage of the online feature... |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2004 |
News Briefs - World Book Online Reference Center To make its Web content accessible to all students, World Book has announced changes to its subscription-based World Book Online Reference Center that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. |
Information Today
November 1, 2012 |
Encyclopaedia Britannica Launches App for Windows 8 The Encyclopaedia Britannica App, now available in the Windows Store, provides access to the entire encyclopedia with a sleek and engaging interface, rich illustrations, and special features such as Link Map. |
ONLINE
September 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Ready-Reference Collections: Bartleby and xrefer Bartleby and xrefer offer free searchable access to full-text standard reference works with hundreds of thousands of individual entries... |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2000 |
Late Breaks - N2H2, Inc. N2H2, Inc. extends its offer of the Microsoft Encarta Online Deluxe Encyclopedia without charge to new and current Bess Internet Filtering customers for the 2000-01 academic year. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2001
Elizabeth Amberg |
Focus on Science Education Interactive learning and informative content are vital assets in any science classroom. Several software programs exist to help students visualize and analyze scientific information... |
Information Today
July 23, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Britannica.com to Launch Premium Service for Encyclopaedia Britannica Access It's now a familiar story. Yet another Web content provider feels the pinch from the severe downturn in the Internet economy and reduced advertising revenue and announces it will start charging for content that had been available for free... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2001
Matthew Miller |
Focus on Social Studies Social studies is a broad topic, encompassing several subjects, including history, government, economics, civics, sociology, geography and anthropology. It can also be one of the most visual learning experiences for students with the help of today's tools and software... |
Information Today
August 2000 |
ABC-CLIO Launches New ResourceLink CD-ROM ABC-CLIO Interactive has announced the release of ResourceLink: 18th-Century World History, a new multimedia research tool on CD-ROM. |
Information Today
October 2000 |
ABC-CLIO Launches Native American Rights Movement CD This CD-ROM provides students in grades 6--12 with information about the eradication, relocation, and acculturation that Native Americans endured as part of U.S. government policy... |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
Janet Rubenking |
Your Library Online With a library card and an internet connection, you can access a wealth of data from your public library. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2007
Lindsay Hansen |
Music to Researchers' Ears Ten top sites for researching music. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2000 |
Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary Merriam-Webster has released an electronic version of its Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. The CD-ROM includes over 472,000 entries, with a user-friendly interface and numerous search options.... |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000
Kathryn Childs |
ABC-CLIO's American Social Issues ABC-CLIO, longtime publisher of books and large bibliographic database products, offers six interactive multimedia encyclopedias on CD-ROM that are wonderful reference resources for upper middle and high school student research... |
Information Today
June 2, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
Leveraging Britannica's Content With WebShare In late April, the company officially announced its new WebShare program, which has opened the Britannica site for free access to web publishers and permits free links to full-text entries. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Out-Googling The Top Search Engine Online encyclopedias yield more specialized results. |
Macworld
October 2000 |
High-Quality Education on the Web 50 of the Best Sites |
Information Today
August 2000 |
Gale Group Launches History Resource Center Gale Group has announced the release of the History Resource Cente. The subscription service, designed primarily for libraries, schools, and universities, is the first product to integrate history's most important documents within a single interface |
Information Today
June 16, 2011 |
New Britannica Ebook Service for Schools and Libraries Students in elementary school through college can easily access hundreds of high-quality books on the subjects they're studying through a new web-based ebooks service available to schools and libraries from Britannica Digital Learning. |
Information Today
September 8, 2008 |
Credo Reference Launches Improved Interface Credo Reference, the online reference library, has completely updated and enhanced its interface. |
D-Lib
April 2002
Adam Hodgkin |
Integrated and Aggregated Reference Services: The Automation of Drudgery Few books are large enough to justify an annual subscription for online access. One way round this problem is to develop an aggregation service through which a collection of books can be given additional weight and visibility, sufficient to warrant active web distribution... |
Information Today
September 2003 |
Product News and Reviews MicroPatent Streamlines Searching, Extends IP Alerts... Reuters Unveils Research On-Demand... ProQuest Offers JHUP Journals... etc. |
Information Today
November 11, 2010 |
Continuum Titles Join Oxford University Press Digital Reference Shelf As part of a new distribution partnership Continuum is making a critical selection of its high-quality scholarly reference titles available through the Digital Reference Shelf platform, providing students and scholars with a single online source. |
Information Today
April 2001
Peter Jacso |
Internet Insights - xrefer: An Xcellent British Dot-Com This free service masterfully integrates the best British ready-reference sources via cross-references and cross-links... |
Information Today
March 22, 2012
Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Aloha Encyclopaedia Britannica Print Edition On March 13, 2012, no bugler played taps for Encyclopaedia Britannica's final print edition. But expressions of condolences outnumbered celebratory comments by 5 to 1 at the official Britannica.com blog |
Information Today
March 25, 2002 |
News Digest Legislators Save Washington State Library... Compton's Encyclopedia Returns to Britannica... EBSCO Publishing Adds New Databases, Features |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2003
Annamaria DiGiorgio |
Editors' Picks: Eleventh Edition Merriam-Webster Speaking Handheld Dictionary Franklin Electronics' Eleventh Edition Merriam-Webster Speaking Handheld Dictionary provides quick access to more than 200,000 words. |
Information Today
April 22, 2010 |
Oxford University Press Launches New Online Resources Oxford University Press has released the online edition of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome |
Information Today
June 28, 2010 |
Reference Universe now links to CQ Researcher and to CREDO Reference Reference Universe is an information service designed specifically to unlock a library's reference collection. |
Information Today
October 2000 |
Fact City Partners with Houghton Mifflin to Offer Online Access to Combined Reference Information Houghton Mifflin will provide Fact City with the brand-new fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography, Wall Street Words, and A Who's Who of Sports Champions... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Will Consumers Be Willing to Pay for Their Formerly Free Lunch on the Internet? After offering up an all-you-can-eyeball information buffet to consumers, online publishers are now attempting to rein in the Internet free lunch... |
Information Today
July 24, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest EBSCO Introduces New Complete Resources... HighBeam Renames and Redesigns Its Free Encyclopedia... CSA Adds New Databases... etc. |
Information Today
November 5, 2009 |
Credo Reference to Launch SAGE Reference Publisher Collection Nearly 70 SAGE titles will now be available through the Credo Reference platform. SAGE is an international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2001
Ken L. Foster |
Music Appreciation Course: Rhythm and Melody This title is one of Clearvue's PowerCD series CDs, which require no hard disk space and no installation. This is a boon for school labs with limited disk space and difficult installation procedures... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2000 |
FYI - The New Book of Popular Science Grolier Educational has launched The New Book of Popular Science Online, allowing students in grades 5 and up to explore scientific information and interactive activities.... |
Searcher
March 2006
Paula Berinstein |
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid's All Right (And So's the Old Man) Can the public concoct and maintain a free, authoritative encyclopedia that's unbiased, complete, and reliable? |
Information Today
March 17, 2011 |
Credo Reference Expands M.E. Sharpe Content M.E. Sharpe publishes social sciences and humanities resources, including titles in economics, political science, management and public administration, history, and literature. |
Information Today
November 15, 2010 |
Berkshire Publishing Collection on Credo Reference Five major Berkshire resources -- 31 volumes in all -- will be available for the first time through the Credo Publisher Collection service. |
BusinessWeek
August 8, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Do Your Homework, Microsoft Microsoft's back-to-school offering, Student 2006, seems like a hodgepodge. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 19, 2015
Michael Blanding |
Which Has More Bias? Wikipedia or the Encyclopedia Britannica By identifying politically biased language in Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, Feng Zhu hopes to learn whether professional editors or open-sourced experts provide the most objective entries. |
