What is Encyclopædia Britannica?
The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general English-language encyclopaedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a privately-held company. The articles in the Britannica are aimed at educated adult readers, and written by a staff of about 100 full-time editors and over 4,000 expert contributors. It is widely regarded as the most scholarly of encyclopaedias. Software versions include Britannica Ultimate Reference CD or DVD, Britannica Deluxe CD or DVD and Britannica Online.
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PERCE_NEIGE It's not about crowd-sourced content, but it's a reliable source of info, with checked content. For this, it should be considered as a Wikipedia alternative, to get the info (of course not for the crowd-source part, but most ot the Wikipedia users use the encyclopædia as an info source, not for editing.
PERCE_NEIGE That's better than Wikipedia, as info are checked, and edited by specialists. Wikipedia is fun, but it gives sometimes wrong info, and is a place where there are power and lobbies fights. I've found some weird propaganda pages, and I've been the first one to ask for deletion in years, and many other weird info found on this site. Wikipedia is useful to share knowledge, but it's really idealized, and a dangerous tool if it's the only encyclopædia that you use.
ab1 Reliable source but not complete.
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Wanting to do most of my research online and avoid Wikipedia, I signed up for a year of Brittanica Online. I was able to use it a little, but it wasn't extensive enough to really serve as a main reference tool for me. Wikipedia is far more in depth (although possibly at the cost of accuracy). Brittanica Online feels like something I would definately use if I was in junior high, though.
For a general, non-Wikipedia resource, the free encyclopedia.com is just as good if not better.