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See also CD-ROM, factual texts, library skills, non-fiction reading and writing, software, study skills An encyclopedia is a reference text in print or electronic form and is normally organised alphabetically. (Some encyclopedias for young children are...

A view of schooling that suggests that up to the compulsory school leaving age all education should be general and should be planned to cover the major kinds of knowledge and experiences. Thus a good education would be a balanced selection from the...

ENCYCLOPEDIAS. Most generally, there are two ways of understanding encyclopedia (from Greek kúklos, "circle," and paideía, "education"), namely: (1) after Hippias of Elis, a Sophist of the fifth century BCE, as...

An encyclopedia, or (traditionally) encyclopædia, is a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. The articles on subjects in an encyclopedia are usually arranged...

In a whale-sized project, the world's scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone.The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos,...

Google Inc. is working on a new Internet encyclopedia that will consist of material submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibly profit from their knowledge.The concept, outlined late Thursday in a posting on Google's Web site, poses a potential challenge...

A Japanese bureaucrat has been reprimanded for shirking his duties to make hundreds of Wikipedia contributions about toy robots, officials said Friday.The agriculture ministry said the bureaucrat, whose name was not released, contributed 260 times to the Japanese-language Wikipedia entry on Gundam, a popular, long-running...

The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim doesn't seem particularly controversial _ Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder.Yet the other founder,...