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Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition, containing over 73,000 articles, is a comprehensive, convenient, and accurate resource from which one can begin his or her research. Several bonus features are included in this online reference tool: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus; thousands of photographs, illustrations, and sound files; complementary Web site hot links; hundreds of relevant videos; hot links from Encyclopedia Britannica articles to related magazine and journal articles from EBSCO and ProQuest online databases; World Data containing information and customizable charts and tables about nations of the world; over 4,000 Notable Quotations from historical and contemporary important men and women; and Gateway to the Classics, 225 works by 140 significant writers of the Western world.

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Britannica users can find a wide variety of content on the results page of every search. In addition to the Articles tab, you'll find tabs for Britannica's large collection of Images and Videos, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Journals and Periodicals (courtesy of EBSCO), our curated collection of Web Sites called Web's best sites, Primary sources and eBooks, and year in review articles. Click on a tab to see the corresponding information

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Each of these links takes you to a page that offers a broad variety of choices in research topics and categories to research on. Ranging from Animals to Technology.

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Britannica also offers two features called "World Atlas", and "Compare Countries. "

Compare Countries lets you compare statistics, analytics, and articles of any two countries of your selection. For example, the comparison below is the comparison of the analytics of the countries of Ethiopia and Greece.