Thursday, October 11, 2012

All Hail Britannica

I searched for "Obamacare" and it mapped to Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).   Very good.  The initial screen showed only the Encyclopedia entries (not what the Discovery exercise indicated).  I clicked on the Articles tab and got to the articles, then saw the 3 sections as described.  I opened one of the articles but could not find any display of citation style choices.  It's a good thing I don't have to write a paper.  Once I was inside the article content, there was no way back except the browser back button.  Only after going back, could I get to a screen displaying the Academic edition logo.

Not too impressed with this database but I think that is to be expected. 

I have created a workspace and will play around with it.  I could use this to create a fancy handout.  I'll see what I can do.

Now I see I could use the workspace to work on a project.  It would be useful for a collaboration.  I'd like to see an example of this. 

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