Although the Internet could be viewed as one giant encyclopedia, there is one very important difference: the bulk of the Internet is written by sources with dubious credentials. When you need background information for a school paper or a research project
Encarta offers 4,500 articles from their CD-ROM encyclopedia, hundreds of related multimedia clips, a talking dictionary, and a world atlas.
Although not strictly a general purpose encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Smithsonian "features answers to frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian and links to Smithsonian resources on subjects from Art to Zoology.
High Beam's Encyclopedia.
In contrast to the rest of the today's picks, Wikipedia is not reviewed by an editorial board of experts, but rather by thousands of volunteers.
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