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Online encyclopedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com[1] is an online encyclopedia. It aggregates information from other published dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference works including pictures and videos.
Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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Available in | English |
Owner | Gale |
Created by | Infonautics |
Revenue | Display advertising |
URL | www |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | No |
Launched | March 1998 |
Current status | Online |
Content license | Copyrighted |
OCLC number | 405663034 |
The website was launched by Infonautics in March 1998.[2] Infonautics was acquired by Tucows in August 2001.[3] In August 2002, Patrick Spain bought Encyclopedia.com and its sister website eLibrary from Tucows and incorporated them in a new company called Alacritude, LLC (a combination of Alacrity and Attitude).[4] The business became known as HighBeam Research and was eventually sold to Gale.[5][6] For a time the website was operated by Chicago-based company Highbeam Research, a subsidiary of reference publisher Gale, which itself is a subsidiary of Cengage.[7][5]
Encyclopedia.com allows users to access information on a subject from multiple encyclopedias and dictionary sources,[8] and has nearly 200,000 entries and 50,000 topic summaries. It provides a collection of online encyclopedias and entries from various sources, including Oxford University Press, Columbia Encyclopedia and Gale, its parent company.[9][10]
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