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You don’t have to browse the web for long before you find links to or information copied from Wikipedia, so quickly has it become the repository for all knowledge and wisdom for bloggers everywhere. Unfortunately it’s not always accurate and since everyone seems to plagiarise the same source even flame wars in forums get boring with everyone regurgitating their favourite pieces of wikipedia wisdom.

So in a move which I think is very wise, Britannica is giving away free access to Britannica Online for any bloggers/writers who want it. I’m not sure what if any criteria there is, maybe if you only blog about porn or something you might get turned down but they happily gave me access so I’m sure most people could get access even with a little blog like this.

To go along with this they give some widgets which can be included on your site, and any links you make back to them are viewable by any of your readers even if they don’t have access to Britannica online.

This is clearly at least partly an attempt to grab some of the Wikipedia traffic but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. The Britannica has always been a well researched and well respected Encyclopaedia and I think this can only be a good thing for the accuracy of school essays the world over.

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If you’re a Web publisher—a blogger, webmaster, or writer—you can get complimentary access to the complete Encyclopædia Britannica online. It’s a rich trove of reliable and high-quality information that you can use to check quick facts, research topics in depth, or just read to enjoy.
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Britannica covers a wide range of topics with thousands of articles and multimedia features. They’re relevant and useful, and we’d like more people to be able to take advantage of them.
You get complimentary access to the Encyclopædia Britannica online and, if you like, an easy way to give your readers background on the topics you write about with links to complete Britannica articles.