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The '''''Columbia Encyclopedia''''' is a highly regarded one-volume [[encyclopedia]]<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9024878/Columbia-Encyclopedia ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. ''Columbia Encyclopedia''. Accessed 16 Jan. 2008]</ref> produced by [[Columbia University Press]] and sold by the [[Gale Group]]. First published in [[1935]]<ref>[http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/ Columbia.thefreedictionary.com]</ref>, and continuing its important relationship with the [[Columbia University]], the encyclopedia underwent major revisions in 1950 and 1963; the current edition is the sixth, printed in [[2000]]. It contains over 51,000 articles totaling some 6.5 million words and has also been published in two volumes.
An electronic version of the encyclopedia is available and is licensed by several different companies for use over the [[World Wide Web]]. See [[Columbia Encyclopedia#External links|External links]] below. This edition, which is [[markup language|marked up]] in [[Standard Generalized Markup Language|SGML]], is updated on a quarterly basis and contains over 84,000 hyperlinked cross-references. Unlike many other major English-language encyclopedias, the complete content of the Columbia encyclopedia is available online to individual users without payment. (Most others make a subset of their content available, and the user is from time to time informed that more content is only available to subscribers.)
A particular strength of the Columbia encyclopedia in comparison to other similar reference works might be its concise but often well-written biographies, particularly of artists and writers, usually accompanied by carefully selected [[bibliographies]].
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==See also==
*[[List of encyclopedias]]
* [[List of online encyclopedias]]
==External links==
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia is available from (in alphabetical order):
*[http://www.answers.com Answers.com] -- Free Site - Does not have popups but does have banners.
*[http://reference.allrefer.com/ allRefer Reference], part of [http://www.allrefer.com/ allRefer] -- Site has many pop-ups and banners.
*[http://www.bartleby.com/65/ Bartleby] -- Site has popups and banners. Search engine finds only complete word matches unless a wildcard '*' is used.
*[http://www.encyclopedia.com Encyclopedia.com], part of [[eLibrary]] -- Site has some banners, but no pop-ups
*[http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia.html Information Please], part of the [[Family Education Network]] -- Site has banners; free - convenient to use
*[http://columbia.tfd.com/ The Free Dictionary] -- Site does not have any advertisements, but some content only available with a subscription
*[http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/ Yahoo!] -- Site has a few banners. Wildcard searching less powerful than on Bartleby version: for instance ''bodybuild*'' finds several hits on Bartleby but none on Yahoo!
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