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Featured Service: Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
- reviewed by Benjamin Lehrman, high school sophomore
What it does: Research tool and educational site providing online access to the volumes of information collected and compiled by Encyclopaedia Britannica. The information is easy to navigate, factually correct and includes plenty of multimedia information and additional resources.
Features: I have used Encyclopaedia Britannica in the past for research projects and have always found it to be a reliable unbiased website. I researched some of the things I covered in school last year. For example, I researched the digestive system and I could have sworn that I was sitting in biology class listening to my teacher. It was detailed and it gave the scientific name for the organ and then the name it is commonly referred to. Also, I like how it gives a summary of the article and then it goes in depth about each organ. As a student with a ton of homework, I don't want to have to read 70 pages of detailed descriptions, when I can look at a summary for a shorter assignment; however if I were to do a larger project--let's say a science fair--I would find those 70 pages very helpful.
The text features are also very helpful ranging from photographs to animations to movies. I researched the Holy Roman Empire and was given a family tree covering thousands of years. I saw pictures of what they thought Charlemagne (an emperor) looked like.
Finally, I researched a broader topic: chocolate. I could have chosen between articles about milk, dark or white chocolate, techniques used to make chocolate and machinery used. For each I was given the history of it. I was given photographs of the plant and at the end of each stage in the making.
I would use Encyclopaedia Britannica as my primary research website any day. It has a dictionary and a thesaurus, which is very beneficial. Using Encyclopaedia Britannica eliminates the use of having five browsers open at the same time, navigating through each one, to put together a project.
Cost: Annual subscription: $69.95
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