Nothnagel's Encyclopædia, Tuberculosis

FROM ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA TO WIKIPEDIA Generational differences in the perceived credibility of online encyclopedia information

This study examined the perceived credibility of user-generated (i.e. Wikipedia) versus more expertly provided online encyclopedic information (i.e. Citizendium, and the online version of the Encyclopædia Britannica) across generations. Two large-scale surveys with embedded quasi-experiments were conducted: among 11–18-year-olds living at home and among adults 18 years and older. Results showed...

Encyclopædia of the Eye

Green's Encyclopædia Medica

Strategies for Comparison in Encyclopædia Descriptions

Comparisons are typically employed to distinguish similar entities, or to illustrate a property of an entity by referring to another commonly known entity which shares that property. Based on an analysis of a corpus of encyclopædia texts, we define three types of comparisons and outline some strategies for applying these in the generation of entity descriptions. We describe how these comparison...

The British Encyclopædia of Medical Practice