{"id":808,"date":"2006-10-03T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2006\/10\/butler-gets-britannica-online\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T18:24:00","slug":"butler-gets-britannica-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2006\/10\/butler-gets-britannica-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Gets Britannica Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The libraries at Butler University have just gotten a new online resource. It&#8217;s the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Britannica plus a whole lot more. One of the new features is the World Data Analyst, which gives you current and past statistics about countries around the world. The &#8220;Workspace&#8221; is also new, and allows you to save your research (articles you find, etc.) and come back to it later. Visit <b>Britannica Online<\/b> via the Databases page on the library website.<\/p>\n<p>Completely updated for 2006, this award-winning reference site is<br \/>\nnow faster, easier to use, and full of new content specifically<br \/>\ndesigned to meet the needs of university libraries. The foundation of<br \/>\nBritannica Online (BOL) is the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the largest,<br \/>\nmost authoritative encyclopedia in the world. In addition to the<br \/>\nencyclopedia, BOL includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>World Data Analyst &#8211; Britannica&#8217;s exclusive database of current and past statistics on the countries of the world<\/li>\n<li>Gateway to the Classics &#8211; An extensive collection of significant works in literature, philosophy, history, and science<\/li>\n<li>Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Collegiate Dictionary &amp; Thesaurus &#8211; Completely integrated into the site and easily accessible <\/li>\n<li>Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Quotations &#8211; A lively collection of more than 4,000 quotations, both contemporary and classic<\/li>\n<li>Full-text<br \/>\njournal and magazine articles from EBSCO and Proquest journals &#8211; more<br \/>\nthan 700 titles, hand-selected for college needs <\/li>\n<li>BBC &amp; New York Times daily headlines &#8211; top stories from two trusted sources<br \/>\n\t\t\tThe Web&#8217;s Best &#8211; a collection of Web sites carefully selected by Britannica&#8217;s editorial department<\/li>\n<li>World Atlas &#8211; Access Britannica maps through this interactive resource<\/li>\n<li>Advanced search capabilities and Britannica&#8217;s exclusive &#8220;Workspace,&#8221; a research organizer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The libraries at Butler University have just gotten a new online resource. It&#8217;s the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Britannica plus a whole lot more. One of the new features is the World Data Analyst, which gives you current and past statistics about countries around the world. The &#8220;Workspace&#8221; is also new, and allows you to save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[274804,274805],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-announcements","tag-databases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}