Academic American Encyclopedia

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American Academic Encyclopedia is a multivolume general English-language encyclopedia. The CD-ROM version features a search function and offers the complete text of the American Academic Encyclopedia, including illustrations, photographs, animated maps, music and videos.

The full text of the encyclopedia was available to 200 homes in Columbus, Ohio in 1980, as part of an experiment sponsored by OCLC. A year later, the text was available to subscribers of The New York Times Information Bank, the Dow Jones News/Retrieval and CompuServe.

Arête Publishing's interactive version, including illustrations, video and audio stored on videodisk was shown at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1982.1

Grolier published the 1985 CD-ROM edition, The New Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia, a 21-volume set of the American Academic Encyclopedia, which comprised 30,000 entries and 9 million words.2 In 1992, Grolier launched their own encyclopedia on CD-ROM encyclopedia.

The Kussmaul Encyclopedia, the first online encyclopedia, was also developed in 1980 and went online in 1981.

References

  1. ^ Information Technology and Its Impact on American Education, Washington, D.C: Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1982.
  2. ^ Lewis, Peter H. "PERSONAL COMPUTERS; CD-ROM for the Common Man," The New York Times, November 28, 1989.

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