Free access to Britannica
Britannica has made free access to the full content of Britannica Online available to registered bloggers and web publishers through Britannica WebShare. Once your free registration has been approved you can provide links to the full version of Britannica articles – users clicking on your link will be able to read the entire article but cannot read other parts of the Britannica site.
also from the Britannica WebShare site…
Britannica Widgets are here, and with them you can instantly post an entire cluster of related Encyclopaedia Britannica articles on your blog or Web site. Just follow the instructions and copy and paste the several lines of code associated with each widget as html into the appropriate place on your site. Any readers who click on a link will get the entire Britannica article on the subject, even if access to the article normally requires a subscription. Really. Try it.
Below is an example of the Britannica Greek Mythology widget embedded in a blog. A selection of widgets is available on the Britannica Assets & Widgets page with a promise of more to come.
The CMIS Encyclopaedias Online page contains links to free and subscription encyclopaedias available to schools online.
Readers interested in the impact on traditional publishing of free access to information via the internet will enjoy reading this post from Michael Arrington at TechCrunch.
