Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Encyclopaedia Britannica Assistant Editor William Clarke in 1947 ...

IN no department of knowledge has greater progress been made during the last twenty years than in the realms of archæology and ancient history. A glance at almost any volume of the new edition of the ...

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica will cease publishing its flagship encyclopedia and concentrate on its digital offerings. “We’d like to think our tradition is not to print, but to bring ...

Some 20 years ago I was sitting in a research seminar on English literature when the faculty member in charge began sermonizing on the virtues of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. When ...

Encyclopaedia Britannica, mortally wounded by the Web and Wikipedia, is ending the production of its print edition in favor of a strictly digital strategy, the company announced Tuesday. “It’s a rite ...

It turns out all Encyclopaedia Britannica had to do to breathe new life into the sale of its print edition was to kill it. Since Britannica announced last month that it was discontinuing its print ...

In 1768, the Enlightenment was in full swing, and the printing press was being employed liberally as a method of disseminating knowledge among the (then still relatively few) literate and learned. Few ...

It seems that old chestnut about absence making the heart grow fonder is true — at least when it comes to reference books. After announcing in mid-March that it would no longer publish the print ...

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica will cease publishing its flagship encyclopedia and concentrate on its digital offerings. “We’d like to think our tradition is not to print, but to bring ...

THE articles dealing with engineering subjects, in that portion of the new edition of the “Encyclopædia Britannica” which ranges from aëronautics up to irrigation, have been issued separately for the ...

Encyclopaedia Britannica, a compendium of knowledge which has been in continuous print since 1768, is to go digital only this year. Sales of the hefty volumes have been on the decline since 1990 when ...