#encyclopedias

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@internetarchive
is a non-profit offering millions of free books, movies & audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the .

@wikipedia
is a multilingual free online written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called . Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.

@OpenBookPublish
We're Publishers: a non-profit, scholar-led, open access press publishing award-winning books. All our books are open access, and we don't charge authors a Book Processing Charge to publish with us.

@Memere
Digital librarian, technical information specialist and open science …

Simon Garfield: All the Knowledge in the World (2022, Orion Publishing Group, Limited) 5 stars

Fascinating history of encyclopedias, from the print versions over Encarta to Wikipedia

5 stars

Great summary of the history of #encyclopedias with lots of fascinating insights and a focus on the #EncyclopædiaBritannica. The final chapters made me aware, that not Wikipedia really ended the printed encyclopedias, but #Encarta from #Microsoft, also one of my first encyclopedias. But of course #Wikipedia finished them all of and there seems to be no possible path for an alternative now...