Britannica Book of the Year

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  • editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica
    In Encyclopædia Britannica: Corporate change

    …were, however, reported in the Britannica Book of the Year), but the method of continuous revision provided a flexible means of handling new material in book form. It also had the advantage of requiring a full-time, permanent, and professional, rather than a temporary, editorial staff.

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  • editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica
    In Encyclopædia Britannica: Britannica in the digital era

    Content from the Britannica Book of the Year (generally branded the Britannica Year in Review online) became available online beginning with the 1994 edition (which described the events of 1993). For readers unfamiliar with particular words included in the text, a dictionary and thesaurus from Merriam-Webster (a subsidiary…

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  • Illustration from the entry on the winds in St. Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, an edition published in Strasbourg c. 1473.
    In encyclopaedia: Supplementary material

    …1913 and recommenced with the Britannica Book of the Year in 1938. The publication of supplements has a much longer history in China, but the system on which the Chinese operated was very different from that of the West. By the second half of the 20th century, yearbooks had become…

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