Encyclopedia Americana

Encyclopedia Americana :Encyclopedia Americana is one in all the biggest wellknown encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by using Scholastic.
The encyclopedia has greater than forty five,000 articles, maximum of them greater than 500 words and many walking to vast length (the "united states" article is over 300,000 words). The paintings's coverage of yankee and Canadian geography and history has been a conventionalelectricity. Written through 6,500 contributors, the Encyclopedia Americana consists of over 9,000 bibliographies, a hundred and fifty,000 cross-references, 1,000+ tables, 1,200 maps, and nearly4,500 black-and-white line artwork and coloration images. It also has 680 factboxes. most articles are signed by using their contributors.lengthy available as a 30-volume print set, the Encyclopedia Americana is now marketed as an internet encyclopedia requiring a subscription. In March 2008,Scholastic said that print sales remained precise however that the organizationbecome nonetheless selecting the future of the print version. The agency did not produce an version in 2007, a trade from its preceding approach of releasing a revised print version each 12 months. The most recent print edition of the Encyclopedia Americana turned into posted in 2006.the online version of the Encyclopedia Americana, first brought in 1997, continues to be up to date and bought. This work, like the print set from which it's miles derived, is designed for excessive school and primary-year college college students along side public library users. it's faravailable to libraries as one of the alternatives in the Grolier on line reference carrier, which alsoincludes the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, supposed for center and excessive facultystudents, and the new e book of knowledge, an encyclopedia for fundamental and middle collegestudents. Grolier on line isn't to be had to man or woman subscribers.
Predecessors:
before the cutting-edge manifestation of the Encyclopedia Americana there have been twoprevious encyclopedias the use of the title within the nineteenth century. there was no connection to the ebook that began in 1902 apart from the name.
the primary Encyclopædia Americana started publishing in 1829, edited by way of the German-born Francis Lieber and based totally on the Brockhaus Conversations-Lexikon
A separate Encyclopedia Americana was posted by using J.M. Stoddart among 1883 and 1889, as a supplement to American reprintings of the 9th version of theEncyclopædia Britannica It became 4quarto volumes meant to "make bigger and whole the articles in Britannica".] Stoddart's work, however, isn't connected to the earlier work through Lieber.
The present day Encyclopedia Americana:
In 1902 a new edition in sixteen volumes that carried over a number of the vintage cloth becomeposted below the name Encyclopedia Americana, beneath the editorial supervision of medicalAmerican mag. The mag's editor, Frederick converse seaside, become editor-in-leader, and wasstated to be assisted through hundreds of eminent scholars and authorities who served as consulting editors or authors. the primary writer become R.S. Peale & Co; among 1903 and 1906 in addition editions had been issued with the aid of the Americana Corp. and the scientific American Compiling branch, with George Edwin Rines appointed handling editor in 1903. the relationshipwith clinical American changed into terminated in 1911. From 1907 to 1912, the paintings becomepublished because the Americana.
a major new version appeared in 1918–20 in 30 volumes, with George Edwin Rines as editor-in-chief.[4] An Annual orYearbook changed into additionally published each yr beginning in 1923 and continuing until 2000.The encyclopedia changed into bought via Grolier in 1945. through the 1960s, sales of the Americana and its sister courses beneath Grolier—The ebook of knowledge, the e book of famous science, and Lands and Peoples—have been strong enough to aid the agency's occupancy of a huge constructing (variously named the Americana constructing and the Grolier constructing) in Midtown long island, at 575 Lexington street. sales at some stage in this era have been accomplished on the whole thru mail-order and door-to-door operations. Telemarketing and third-birthday celebration distribution thru their Lexicon division introduced to income volumes inside the 1970s. via the past due 1970s, Grolier had moved its operations to Danbury, Connecticut.
Later developments:
In 1988 Grolier changed into bought by the French media agency Hachette, which owned a 9aaf3f374c58e8c9dcdd1ebf10256fa5 French-language encyclopedia, the Hachette Encyclopedia. Hachette became later absorbed with the aid of the French conglomerate the Lagardère institution.A CD-ROM version of the encyclopedia was posted in 1995. even though the textual content and snap shots had been stored on separate disks, it was consistent with standardscutting-edge on the time. more importantly, the paintings had been digitized, taking into accountrelease of an online model in 1997. Over the following couple of years the product was augmented with additional features, features, supplementary references, net links, and modern activitiesmagazine. A redesigned interface and in part reengineered product, featuring improved searchcapabilities and a primary-ever ADA-compliant, text-handiest version for users with disabilities, turned into supplied in 2002.the acquisition of Grolier via Scholastic for US$400 million, befell in 2000. the new proprietors projected a 30% increase in working earnings, despite the fact thathistorically Grolier had skilled earnings of 7% to eight% on earnings. staff discounts as a meansof controlling charges followed quickly thereafter, even at the same time as an attempt was made to augment the sales pressure. Cuts came about each yr between 2000 and 2007, leaving a far-depleted work force to perform the responsibilities of preserving a huge encyclopedia database. these days, Encyclopedia Americana lives on as an fundamental database within the Grolier on-line product.
The Encyclopædia Britannica :
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published with the aid ofEncyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledgeEnglish-language encyclopaedia. it is written through about one hundred complete-time editors and extra than four,000 individuals, who haveblanketed a hundred and ten Nobel Prize winners and 5 American presidents. The 2010 version of the fifteenth edition, which spans 32 volumes and 32,640 pages, become the closing publishedversion; virtual content material and distribution has endured considering that then.The Britannica is the oldest English-language encyclopaedia nevertheless in manufacturing. It changed into first published among 1768 and 1771 within the Scottishcapital of Edinburgh, as 3volumes. The encyclopaedia grew in length: the second edition turned into 10 volumes, and with the aid of its fourth edition (1801–1810) it had multiplied to 20 volumes. Its growing stature as a scholarly paintings helped recruit eminent members, and the ninth (1875–1889) and11th variations (1911) are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary fashion. beginning with the eleventh version and following its acquisition by means of an American firm, the Britannica shortened and simplified articles to increase its enchantment to the North American marketplace. In 1933, the Britannicabecame the first encyclopaedia to undertake "continuous revision", in which the encyclopaedia is constantly reprinted, with each article up to date on a agenda. In March 2012, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. introduced it might not post revealed versions, and might focus as an alternative onEncyclopædia Britannica on-line.The 15th version has a 3-element shape: a 12-volume Micropædia of quick articles (commonly fewer than 750 phrases), a 17-volumeMacropædia of long articles (two to 310 pages), and a single Propædiavolume to provide a hierarchical outline of expertise. The Micropædia is meant for short fact-checking and as a manual to the Macropædia; readers are suggested to look at the Propædia outline to apprehend a topic's context and to find extra designated articles. Over 70 years, the size of the Britannica has remained consistent, with approximately forty million words on half of a millionsubjects. though posted inside the united states of america since 1901, the Britannica has for the maximum element maintained British English spelling
The Encyclopedia of Library and information technology 
The Encyclopedia of Library and facts technology is a nicely-reputable multivolume reference set that become first published in 1968 and can now be found in hundreds of libraries during the sector. the second version, edited by means of Miriam A. Drake, published in 2003 with 4 volumes. Readers may also word that the identify is now plural as a way to signal an crucial change within the content of the third version. The time has come to understand the plurality of informationsciences which can be emerging today, and this Encyclopedia reflects both the vast scope and interrelatedness of the several data disciplines and professions. The editors have absolutely re-visioned the content and organization of the Encyclopedia, developed parallel topical categorizations throughout the disciplines, and fastidiously described what's and is not to be included. data disciplines protected are library technological know-how, facts technology, archives and facts management, museum studies, informatics, understanding management, information systems, bibliography, report and style research, and social factors of facts. The Encyclopedia is intended to serve an target market of librarians, information specialists, academic researchers, systems analysts, bibliographers, and documentalists, as well as studentsand the majority.
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The content is published online (subscription required). Entries might be brought on a quarterly basis, constructing the breadth and intensity of insurance.
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