Columbia Encyclopedia - Definition and Overview

The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia produced by Columbia University Press and sold by the Gale Group. First published in 1936, the current edition is the sixth, printed in 2000. It contains over 50,000 articles, and has also been published in two volumes.

An electronic version of the encyclopedia is available and is licensed by several different companies for use over the World Wide Web. This edition is marked up in SGML. This edition is updated on a quarterly basis, and contains over 84,000 hyperlinked cross-references.

See also: List of encyclopedias

External links

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia is available from:

• allRefer Reference (http://reference.allrefer.com/), part of allRefer (http://www.allrefer.com/)
• Bartleby (http://www.bartleby.com/65/)
• Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com), part of eLibrary
• GuruNet (http://www.gurunet.com/cm-dsid-2040)
• Information Please (http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia.html), part of the Family Education Network
• Yahoo! (http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/)

Criticisms

• The Columbia Encyclopedia's Crimes Against The Truth (http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/encyclopedia_crime.html). By Joseph McCabe; an anti-religious tract that claims the Columbia of his time to have been heavily apologetic and distorting.