Authorities saw it as a dangerous work-it was banned in France, and the Catholic Church placed it on the Index librorum prohibitorum, or Index of Prohibited Books The Encyclopédie began as a humble project The first volume was published ineeded in appalling France’s political and religious elite

His admirably cross-referenced work is universally recognized as the father of the modern encyclopaedia The French were well aware of these developments Byions of Chambers’s Cyclopaedia had been issued The Paris publisher André Le Breton saw a ready market for a translation

Louis XV and Pope Clement XIII both banned the thing, though Louis kept a copy, and apparently actually did read it Because of political and religious pressure in France, Diderot and his compatriots had to smuggle pages out of the country in order to publish them

Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopédie was edited by Jean le Rond d’Alembert and Denis Diderot and published in 17 volumes of articles, issued from 1751 to 1765, and 11 volumes of illustrations, issued from 17

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• Probert Encyclopaedia – online topical encyclopedia consisting of almost short entries, published by Mathew Probert and based in the United Kingdom
• World Book Encyclopedia – designed for family use; the world’s best selling print encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, said Tuesday it will end publication of its printed editions and continue with digital versions available online14 มีค 2555

The World Book Encyclopedia is the only general A-Z print research source still published today

Are they worth anything?” Determining the value of a set of encyclopedias or even a single volume isn’t exceedingly difficult, but there is market variation As one bookseller puts it, the value of a book is whatever someone will pay for it And the fact is, most encyclopedia sets aren’t worth much at all

Recycling encyclopedias Call your local library and ask if you may donate your set to be sold Put it up for giveaway on freecycleorg If they’re really old — say, more than 100 years — call a rare bookseller and ask if they’re worth anything Find out if a local recycler takes them

Call your local recycling plant They may have a specific set of rules for how to dispose of your encyclopedias and may even be able to pick them up from you You can also use your old encyclopedias as a craft project Take the photos inside and use them for scrap booking purposes

Goodwill only sells these items in its outlet stores and disposal is costly and highly restricted Encyclopedias These items are not saleable in our stores and cannot be recycled

Encyclopedias still exist, but as the Internet has taken over everything that we do, the need for them is gone To that end, Encyclopaedia Britannica has announced that after 244 years of doing business it is going out of print, according to a report by Media Decoder13 มีค 2555

The cover and spine contain non-paper materials that are considered contaminants in the paper recycling stream Most libraries or other book reuse and resale organizations do not accept encyclopedias or text books

The largest online encyclopedias are general reference works, though there are also many specialized ones Some online encyclopedia are an online edition of a print encyclopedia, whereas others are a separate enterprise entirely, such as Wikipedia

Britannica was blown away by a product of the late-twentieth-century information revolution: the CD-ROM The CD-ROM came from nowhere and destroyed the printed encyclopedia business As revenues plunged, it became obvious that whether they ought to be or not, CD-ROM encyclopedias were serious competition

The journal Nature says the open-access encyclopedia is about as accurate as the old standby Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature

Jacqui Safra

The articles in Britannica are written by authors both identifiable and credible Wikipedia is “written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world” and relies on the collective wisdom of its volunteers to get the facts right and to balance the opinions expressed

Wikipedia is not a reliable source for citations elsewhere on Wikipedia Because it can be edited by anyone at any time, any information it contains at a particular time could be vandalism, a work in progress, or just plain wrong Wikipedia generally uses reliable secondary sources, which vet data from primary sources

They are credible resources How about online reference works like Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica? Encyclopedia Britannica: It has a real editorial staff, and high quality articles

Always cite Britannica as your source when you use information from it in a report or research paper A citation in three different formats is generated for you automatically when you view an article

Encyclopedias are collections of short, factual entries often written by different contributors who are knowledgeable about the topic Therefore, encyclopedias are reliable sources of information because they have been edited by experts in various fields

The English language Encyclopædia Britannica and German Brockhaus are general encyclopedias Some are about specific topics For example, there are encyclopedias of medicine or philosophy Others include the Dictionary of National Biography, the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, and Black’s Law Dictionary

Overall, we rate Encyclopedia Britannica a Least Biased, Pro-Science source