Academic American Encyclopedia
- Academic American Encyclopedia
The "Academic American Encyclopedia" is a multivolume general English-language encyclopedia.
Computer edition
"Academic American Encyclopedia" is also published in electronic form on CD-ROM, offering the complete text of the "Academic American Encyclopedia", more than 33,000 articles. It also includes illustrations, photographs, animated maps, music and video. It can be browsed or searched by topic or keyword.
The full text of the encyclopedia was available to 200 homes in Columbus, Ohio in 1980, as part of an experiment sponsored by OCLC. A year later, the text was available to subscribers of "The New York Times" Information Bank, the Dow Jones News/Retrieval and CompuServe. An interactive version, including illustrations, video and audio stored on videodisk was shown at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1982. Grolier published the 1985 CD-ROM edition. In 1992, Grolier launched their own encyclopedia on CD-ROM encyclopedia.
The Kussmaul Encyclopedia also went online in 1981.
ee also
*Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
*List of encyclopedias
*List of online encyclopedias
External links
* [http://auth.grolier.com/login/go_login_page.html?bffs=N Grolier online]
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