Each encyclopedia forms the cornerstone of an integrated
"reference library " with its own distinctive interface that includes a
dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, and timelines appropriate to the age of the
user.

About Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica , Inc. The company makes its headquarters in Chicago.
Springer Science+Business Media is one of the world's leading
suppliers of scientific and specialist literature. The group owns 70
publishing houses, together publishing 1,450 journals and over 5,000
new books a year.researchandmarkets.

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Helpdesk
has guides to preparing papers and presentations, learning games and
activities and easy access to statistics on the countries of the world, among
other features.com/ ).

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-- Merriam-Webster 's Dictionary + Thesaurus.
Peter Hendriks, President of Sales and Marketing, sees Springer's
expanded service as much more than the combination of two
internationally recognized publishing catalogs: "Over the past years,
thorough indexing, sophisticated search functions, and rapid access
worldwide have made SpringerLink one of the most frequently used
electronic online libraries", he said.

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Customers get downloadable updates for a year and a 90-day
subscription to Britannica's online service ( http: //www. Britannica also has many digital products for consumers, schools,
libraries and universities , including Britannica Online School Edition
( http://new.

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Customers can call
1-800-323-1229 or go to
http://store.

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Also new this year are features on history, people and animals that are
updated daily, making it easy and enjoyable for users to learn something new
every day.
-- Rich multimedia: thousands of images, audio and video clips that bring
subjects to life .95 US. Springer Alert users receive
regular information about new publications in their field of interest,
and a secure Pay-Per-View shopping cart allows individual documents to
be purchased .researchandmarkets.newscom.

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"This year it's more useful than
ever. This popular visual browser provides an
exhilarating ride though the encyclopedia, making research easier and
more fun.
More information is available at http://www.com The library is now more than
double the size - with a current total of over 1,200 journals.

Research and Markets: Creating the Digital Medical Library

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Unlike other multimedia reference products, which focus mainly on students
in the middle grades, the Ultimate Reference Suite provides information for
everyone from young children to adults in one place. BrainStormer's performance has been enhanced this year, and
users can now access it through keyword search.

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The full-text
versions of "Springer Open Choice" articles are available free of
charge to all Internet users.

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Multimedia Britannica Comes to the Aid of the Homework Harried

The latest version of Britannica's multimedia software, which leads the
field in depth of coverage, includes Homework Helpdesk, a collection of
special features that help students complete assignments at home.britannica.
Following the merger of Springer and Kluwer Academic Publishers
(KAP) in 2004, 750 publications were added.

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-- 166,000 online links to magazine articles and high-quality Web sites.britannica.springerlink. The online library also
contains over 2,700 volumes in 25 book series and a growing number of
handbooks, reference works, eBooks, and databases.
Content is organized into 11 "online libraries": Behavioral
Sciences, Biomedical + Life Sciences, Business + Economics, Chemistry
+ Material Science, Computer Science, Earth + Environmental Sciences,
Engineering , Humanities, Social Sciences + Law, Mathematics, Medicine,
and Physics + Astronomy. DUBLIN, Ireland , Research and Markets
(http://www.

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com/shopping/product/detailmain.com .
Set up in 1996, the online platform is now widely used in
universities, libraries, firms, and research institutions.
All SpringerLink visitors have free access to the journals' table
of contents and individual abstracts .

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Its products include the 32-volume
Encyclopaedia Britannica, My First Britannica and the Britannica Discovery
Library.e.com/reports/c18713

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.

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The group has
around 5,000 employees in 18 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia.com
Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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Helpdesk resources, new daily features, better performance boost 2006 Ultimate
Reference Suite

CHICAGO, Students facing homework, papers and
other assignments have new weapons in their scholarly arsenal with
Encyclopaedia Britannica's Ultimate Reference Suite for 2006, now available on
DVD and CD-ROM.com ). It's available
where software is sold and direct from Britannica.com /cgi-bin/prnh/20040820/RESEARCH )
Creating the Digital Medical Library profiles the electronic collection
development and electronic library development policies of a sample of leading
medical libraries including those of The Mayo Clinic, Cornell University, The
University of Iowa, Columbia University, The University of Texas, The Medical
College of Georgia and many others.

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Its core topics are science, medicine, business,
engineering, architecture, construction, and transport.

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eb. The Cross Reference
Linking service provides cross-references to the cited articles.

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Young students can advance to the next level when they're ready, and
adults can use it all their lives."
Other features include:
-- Britannica BrainStormer(TM).britannica. has been a leader in reference and
education publishing since 1768.

More than half the journals are
"Online First" publications, i .
(Logo: http://www.

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The interface has been redesigned for easier use, and the
product's overall performance has been improved.
The report covers policies concerning electronic journals, archiving ,
e-books, electronic directories, database user training, use of alert service,
virtual reference services, negotiating tactics with vendors, sharing
electronic resources with other libraries or a main campus library, electronic
documents delivery, librarian time management, web site redevelopment and
design, the impact of evidence-based medicine on library practices, employment
of librarians on medical clinical teams, attitudes towards university-inspired
or controlled cooperative scholarly publishing ventures, efforts to develop
endowments/funds for digital resources, cost control efforts , and other issues
of concern to medical librarians. It also includes critical and recent
benchmarking information on spending plans focusing primarily though not
exclusively on digital resources. Long Health Sciences Library Columbia University
- The University Of Texas, Health Science Center at San Antonio

For more information visit
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"The Ultimate Reference Suite continues to be the reference product for
everyone, from grade school to graduate school and beyond ," said Jorge Cauz,
president of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. There is also an
online journals archive dating back to the 1860s., they are available online and can
be cited long before the next print issue appears.

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Libraries profiled include:

- Medical College of Georgia
- Botsford General Hospital
- The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences of the University of Iowa
- Weill Cornell Medical College
- Mayo Clinic Libraries
- Augustus C.

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The product carries a suggested retail price of $49.

SpringerLink: More Than Doubled in Size; Over 1 200 Scientific Journals Now Available in an Expanded and Improved Online Library

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HEIDELBERG/DORDRECHT, Germany + NEW YORK----The specialist publishing group Springer Science+Business Media
is launching an improved and expanded version of its SpringerLink
online library at www.
Subscribers to Springer's journals and customers with a license
can access full-text documents.com/reports/c18713) has announced the addition
of Creating the Digital Medical Library to their offering.

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The product has three encyclopedias: the 32-volume Encyclopaedia
Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and Britannica Elementary
Encyclopedia .

The 2006 edition, for Windows and Macintosh computers, is available on DVD
and CD-ROM .jsp?itemID=665+itemTyp
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