Editor's Note: The enduring vitality of Chinese civilization stems from its rich cultural heritage. The Yongle Encyclopedia, ...

Its editor, Melanie Grant, described how difficult it was to choose just 300 designers, makers and other jewelry-related ...

At an early age, Tavares Strachan noticed there was a lot missing from his family's encyclopedia. Today, the artist searches ...

Although the term "encyclopedia" is now almost synonymous with Wikipedia, it's refreshing to see such a sizable reference printed on paper. So I bought one, and I'll tell you why.

What's in this Encyclopedia. Following are samples of the 50,000+ entries, photos, diagrams and charts in this tech reference, written by Alan Freedman, one of the first computer programmers in ...

The Encyclopedia Britannica currently has a staff of roughly a hundred full-time editors, not to mention the 4,400 contributors it uses (thank you again, Wikipedia).

The Encyclopedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, said Tuesday it will end publication of its printed editions and ...

Yet in an era when Silicon Valley's promises look less gilded than before, Wikipedia shines by comparison. It is the only not-for-profit site in the top 10, and one of only a handful in the top 100.

While it still offers an online edition of its encyclopedia, as well as the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Britannica’s biggest business today is selling online education software to schools and ...

The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era. But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is weighing going public. By Michael J. de la Merced Michael J ...

M icrosoft first launched Encarta in 1993, but the idea for the digitized encyclopedia software was initially conceived in ...