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Description:
Basic introduction to over 75,000 different topics, including encyclopedia articles, maps, news, definitions, and statistics.
What's Covered:
Encyclopedia articles, word look-up (dictionary/thesaurus), media (photographs and selected audio/video files), famous quotations, country profiles, selected websites and news articles.
Subjects Covered:
Basic information from all disciplines.
Access to the full-text:
Almost all of the resources are immediately available via the Britannica Online site. Access to websites and classic works are available to other sites.
Dates Covered:
Encyclopedias and dictionaries: current edition;
Book of the Year: 1993 - present.
Number of Records:
Encyclopaedia Britannica: 73,000 articles;
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: 28,000 articles;
Notable Quotations: 4000 quotations.
Availability: Available freely on-campus, off-campus restricted to current CSU Stanislaus faculty, students and staff
Platform: Britannica Online
CSU Stanislaus URL: http://library.csustan.edu/s/purl.php?18
Standard Search:
Default search: Boolean AND
Truncation symbol: not available
Phrase searching: "phrase" (enclose phrase in quotation marks)
Boolean AND: AND (all capital letters)
Boolean OR: OR (all capital letters)
Boolean NOT: NOT (all capital letters)
Advanced Search:
Default search: Boolean AND
Truncation symbol: not available
Phrase searching: "exact phrase" search box
Boolean And: "all of these words" search box
Boolean OR: "any of these words" search box
Boolean NOT: "without these words" search box
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