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Award-winning and #1 best selling* reference software
84,000+ articles
Essential Knowledge tools--expand your knowledge with historical timelines, world atlas, Britannica BrainStormer, Britannica Classics, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus and Spanish-English Dictionary, and more
More Multimedia--thousands of new images, videos, and audio clips
Extensive Online Resources--166,000+ Web sites and magazine articles
Easy Research Organization--Workspace for project management and school research, Virtual Notecards to save notes from your articles, Bookmark & Save to incorporate articles and media into your reports
Current--free monthly content updates
Free Encyclopædia Britannica Online 6-month membership--$35 value!
Dual Platform Windows/Mac compatible
90-day money back guarantee

*NPD Group/NPD TechWorld, January 2007--March 2008. Based on U.S. Retail Unit Sales for the Encyclopedia Category

Authoritative Content & Interactive Features

The KNOWLEDGE EXPERTS--Encyclopædia Britannica is the world's most famous, most accurate, and most authoritative source of reliable reference information, a position it has proudly held since 1768.

Jumpstart your research with over 84,000 authoritative and richly illustrated articles

Your discoveries come to life with images, videos, and audio clips.

English to Spanish and Spanish to English dictionary.

World Atlas included.

Britannica Biographies covering influential world leaders and great minds.

BrainStormer is an interactive way to understand relationships between ideas, subjects, and people.

84,000+ In-Depth Articles
Jumpstart your research with over 84,000 authoritative and richly illustrated articles

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus
Get instant access to thousands of definitions, synonyms, and antonyms.

More Rich Multimedia
Your discoveries come to life with images, videos, and audio clips.

New--Merriam-Webster Translation Dictionary
English to Spanish and Spanish to English

World Atlas

New--Britannica Biographies
More than 2,000 biographies covering influential World Leaders from 2930 BC to the present day. Plus Great Minds--2,000 astronomers, Nobel laureates, scientists, and others that changed the world.

Exclusive--Britannica BrainStormer
An interactive way to understand relationships between ideas, subjects, and people.

Exclusive--Britannica Classics
Articles written by Britannica's most notable contributors including Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and Harry Houdini.

Historical Timelines
People, events, and discoveries of the past.

Daily Content
Learn something new every day with "This Day in History."

Take notes and save articles, images, and videos in one convenient location.

Access to even more videos and images online.

Includes Britannica Online 6-month trial membership.

Powerful Tools To Expand & Organize Your Research

Workspace
Stay organized at all times! Take notes and save articles, images, and videos in one convenient location.

Virtual Notecards
Save notes from your articles on a virtual note card. Notes are printable to make your research easier and portable!

Bookmark & Save
Easily incorporate articles and media into reports.

Extensive Online Resources

Magazine & Related Web Sites
Links to more than 166,000 Web sites and magazine articles selected by Britannica editors.

Free Content Updates
Stay current with new and updated articles free for one full year

More Multimedia
Access to even more videos and images online

6 great reasons to trust Britannica

Credible: Articles are written by Nobel Laureates, historians, and notable experts.
Accurate: Information is fact-checked by the Encyclopedia Britannica editorial staff.
Trusted: Content is authoritative, trusted, and unbiased.
Efficient: Search results are organized by relevancy, not popularity or paid placement.
Convenient: No downloading or Internet connections required.
Safe: No pornography, pop-up ads, or questionable content.
Up-to-date: Stay current with regular updates.

Exclusive Offer for Software Customers

Britannica Online 6-Month Trial Membership - $35 Value!

Free 6-Month Trial Membership** to Britannica Online Premium when you register your software today! You'll also receive:

Complete access from anywhere, anytime
Over one million pages online
Discounts to the Britannica Store

**Software registration and credit card required to activate free trial membership.

Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars

Good value. January 9, 2009
Buyers should be aware that the "free" 6-month updates subscription requires entry of credit card numbers.

I have enjoyed using the encyclopedia. It seems to come up with a good selection of articles for each search.

The dictionairy is really poor - it doesn't even have a "print" function. When the word "canon" is entered, it puts up a list of "canon", then "canon law", etc. When I click on the first "canon", it brings up the definition of "cannon"! The very first word I tried, "philogynist", it couldn't even find. However, the word's antonym, "misogynist" - one who hates women, is in there. Perhaps that gives some insight into the state of our society.

I also found that the program disk took about an hour to load initially, and that seems unreasonable.

3 out of 5 stars

Great encyclopedia, bad software November 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

As an encyclopedia, it does a great job. At this price you get absolutely a great amount of and CORRECT knowledge. Dictionary, atlas, timelines and online updates are all good features.

I'm not a fun of BrainStormer, but that's fine.

As a simple database + search software, sometimes taking up ~60% CUP power on my laptop with a 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo is unbearable. The skin looks nice but I can't read the words on the tag. Searching is slow, not sure it's due to the graphic or the searching itself.

Oh, I'm using the mac version, it may work better with PC.

1 out of 5 stars

Britannica 2009 November 5, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

I could forgive many issues related to usability if, at its core, this was a great encyclopedia, but it is not. On the searches that I have done so far, the Britannica 2009 returned less useful material than my old Encarta 2003 which installed, loads, and generally just works better and faster than this product.

A couple of warnings:

First, I now notice (too late) that some other reviews seem to have been generated by professional 5-star plants that have provide nothing but rave reviews for everything with Britannica anywhere in the product description.

Second, I find that the software wrapper for this product employs a very simple embedded internet browser that does not seem to work on my new Vista computer. That precludes things like updates.

Finally, if you have any notion of ever calling tech support, you might just give it a try before actually purchasing this DVD. Don't worry about bothering anyone - there won't be an answer.

3 out of 5 stars

It's better, but the software still needs work. October 6, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

It's interesting...a few years ago, Encarta was king in terms of user interface, speed, and the atlas (content was/is pretty decent) while Britannica reigned supreme in terms of content, but the software was lousy. Britannica has since made great strides while Encarta seems to be slowing down (could this be the MS bloat-ware curse?). Encarta still wins on UI, but Britannica really is much improved - the UI is better, you can print whole articles, and the brainstormer feature is kind of interesting. But Britannica still needs work. It's hard to describe - it's just slow and twitchy at times - but not so much that it isn't useful. The atlas is still weak compared to Encarta, but that's not why we buy Britannica. Oh, and it runs well on Mac OS X. One final thought for Britannica - the online Britannica UI is actually slicker and slightly more intuitive than the software. Even so, a very good buy overall.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Encylopedia October 4, 2008
Unbeatable @$20.00, I remember when the written version was $3-400 and it didnt come with sound.
Thanks Britannica, Thanks Amazon
Tony C