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Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Gale |
| Created by | Infonautics |
| Revenue | Display advertising |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | March 1998; 27 years ago (1998-03) |
| Current status | Online |
Content license | Copyrighted |
| OCLC number | 405663034 |
Encyclopedia.com[1] is anonline encyclopedia. It aggregates information, images, and videos from other published dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works.
The website was launched byInfonautics in March 1998.[2] Infonautics was acquired byTucows in August 2001.[3]
In August 2002,Patrick Spain boughtEncyclopedia.com and its sister websiteeLibrary fromTucows and incorporated them into a new company called Alacritude, LLC (a combination of Alacrity and Attitude).[4] The business became known asHighBeam Research and was eventually sold toGale.[5][6] For a time the website was operated byChicago-based companyHighbeam Research, a subsidiary of reference publisherGale, which itself is a subsidiary ofCengage.[7][5]
Encyclopedia.com allows users to access information on a subject that is derived from multiple encyclopedias and dictionary sources,[8] and it has nearly 200,000 entries and 50,000 topic summaries. It provides a collection of online encyclopedias and entries from various sources, includingOxford University Press,Columbia Encyclopedia, andGale, its parent company.[9][10]
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