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Highbeam Encyclopedia

As the Internet's premier collection of online encyclopedias, HighBeam Encyclopedia provides you reference entries from credible, published sources like Britannica, Oxford University Press, and Columbia Encyclopedia.

At HighBeam Encyclopedia, you get free access to nearly 200,000 reference entries from sources you can cite. Plus, more than 50,000 topic summaries feature related pictures, videos, topic summaries, and newspaper and magazine articles from around the world. HighBeam Encyclopedia also provides innovative tools that allow you to rate and sort the reference content you find to be the most useful.

Other Web sites that allow anyone to rewrite reference entries can be fun. But when you need credible information from reliable sources you can cite, HighBeam Encyclopedia (www.encyclopedia.com) is the place to go.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Encyclopedia is owned and operated by HighBeam Research. Named the "Best Online Reference Service" by the CODiE Awards, HighBeam is an online library of more than 60 million articles from newspapers like The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, magazines like The Economist and Newsweek, and online dictionaries like Webster's New World Dictionary and The Oxford American College Dictionary.

HighBeam also gives you access to thesauruses, maps, photographs, trade journals, TV and radio transcripts, press releases, and more. All of this is available at a single research Web site!

New articles are added to HighBeam daily. Plus, HighBeam features an article archive of newspaper, journal, and magazine back issues dating back more than 20 years!

Learn more about HighBeam at www.highbeam.com

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