iiiiiiii i iiiiiiiiiilliiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!i{i{ii{i{i{iiiiiiiiii i iiiii i ! ! ! !iiii iiiiiiiiiiiiii ii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iii!i ii i RSndn Kennedy ronank@acm,org Britannica on the Web The Web recently witnessed an important event in its continuing development. The Encyclopedia Britannica (http://www.eb.com/), a venerable work of reference, decided that it could no longer survive as a printed work. It took all its content online and made it accessible by subscription. The Web is becoming increasingly important as a research tool, the mythical global encyclopedia which was trumpeted in the early years of the "Information Superhighway". The Web is gradually becoming a massive reference source; perhaps not one of the highest scholarly standard, but quite a useful one nonetheless. Search engines are improving constantl)~ driven by competition to be more useful to users. Many publications place their archives and current content online, and many of these are freely accessible. This is particularly useful for those who work in the field of computing, where articles, reviews and reference material for all sorts of topics are easily available. Many organisations have converted their documents to HTML to place them online. When the Web began to take off, I used to question the value of much of
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