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Encyclopædia Britannica 11th Edition (1910–11) English General interest Defunct Public domain: completely free access from several online sources None None None Encyclopedia of China: Chinese General interest Active Subscription Unknown None None Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam: Vietnamese: General interest. State-sponsored encyclopedia ...
Encyclopædia Britannica is a tertiary source. Some online entries are written by subject matter experts, while others are written by freelancers or editors, and entries should be evaluated on an individual basis. Editors prefer reliable secondary sources over the Encyclopædia Britannica when available.
The mediaeval great chain of being as a staircase, implying the possibility of progress: [1] Ramon Lull's Ladder of Ascent and Descent of the Mind, 1305. Alternatives to Darwinian evolution have been proposed by scholars investigating biology to explain signs of evolution and the relatedness of different groups of living things.
Britannica (Encyclopædia Britannica - Polish edition): 49 vols (1997–2005) Encyklopedia białych plam: 20 vols (2000–2006) Encyklopedia nowej generacji E2.0 (2008) Encyklopedia ogólna wiedzy ludzkiej: 12 vols (1872–1877)
Wikipedia's goal is to create a well-written, reliable encyclopedia like the Encyclopædia Britannica ... except Wikipedia is much, much bigger: Britannica has about 120,000 articles, while the English Wikipedia has over 6 million articles. A major pillar of Wikipedia is that it is both an encyclopedia and a community of editors who build it.
This project page was started to identify and collect a list of articles which are more comprehensive than their Encyclopædia Britannica counterparts. Comparisons include: variety of relevant sources, better citations (footnoting or inline citations), article length, facts that are absent in the EB, and article neutrality.
Britannica Book of the Year (1913, 1938-) The Britannica book of the war (1914) Britannica Home University (1920) Weedon's Modern Encyclopedia (1931) a non-Britannica publication that was bought out and repackaged by Britannica as Britannica Junior (1934) Great Books of the Western World (1952) Children's Britannica (1960) aimed at ages seven ...
Another related branch of activity is the creation of new, free content on a volunteer basis. In 1991, participants of the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.douglas-adams [8] started Project Galactic Guide to produce a real version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional encyclopedia used in the works of Douglas Adams.