Britannica Electronic Index

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  • editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica
    In Encyclopædia Britannica: Britannica in the digital era

    …of CD-ROM-based products, including the Britannica Electronic Index and the Britannica CD (providing text and a dictionary, along with proprietary retrieval software, on a single disc). A two-disc CD was released in 1995, featuring illustrations and photos; multimedia, including videos, animations, and audio, was added in 1997. At first the…

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    In encyclopaedia: Indexes

    …alphabetical approach to indexing, the Britannica Electronic Index, made available in 1992, was an inventory of all index terms of the Encyclopædia Britannica; it was to be used topically by the reader. By the 21st century, electronic indexing had grown so sophisticated that it facilitated movement through a database, showed…

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