Product Update for Britannica Onlnine School Edition, January 17, 2005.

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Product Update for Britannica Online School Edition
January 17, 2005

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Hello Ohio School Librarians,

New home pages for Britannica Online School Edition -- available for preview for the last several weeks -- are now INFOhio's default settings. From the INFOhio home page:

	Use the Resources for Grades K-6 button for a direct link to Britannica Elementary for elementary students and up.
	Use the Resources for Grades 4-8 button for a direct link to Compton's by Britannica for middle school students and up.
	Use the Resources for Grades 9-12 button for a direct link to Encyclopaedia Britannica for high school students and up.
	Use the Core Collection button for a direct link to the main Britannica Online School Edition page that allows searching on all three encyclopedias and additional resources.

Training Materials

There are Britannica flyers and a PowerPoint presentation that you can use to share the new Britannica with your school. You can download these materials from the Britannica training Web page http://corporate.britannica.com/training (Choose the level right for your students.)

More Info about the New Britannica Features

Special new home page features: Animal of the Day and Activity of the Day for elementary school, Important People and Big Events for middle school, and selected articles from New York Times on the Web for high school.

Search results and encyclopedia articles direct students to age-appropriate materials in an even easier-to-read format. Special new features...

	Image Search: Find the 28,000 photos, illustrations, and other images in Britannica by clicking the More Images link in the right column of the search results page. Example: http://school.eb.com/comptons/search?query=volcano
	Table of Contents: Jump directly to the section of the article you want by using the Table of Contents along the left side of the encyclopedia article. Example: http://school.eb.com/comptons/article?tocId=9276169

Notice of name changes

	The Britannica Student Encyclopedia is now called by its rightful name, Compton's Encyclopedia by Britannica.
	The Britannica Internet Guide is now called by a more appropriate name, The Web's Best Sites.

Reminders of other key Britannica features...

	Use the Quick-Click Dictionary to look up word definitions; just double-click any word in Britannica Online School Edition.
	Explore Britannica's great collection of student activities and teacher resources by clicking the Learning Materials links in the header or on the home page. -- Elementary Learning Materials for Language Arts http://school.eb.com/elementary/browse/learning?topic=language_index -- Secondary Learning Materials for Language Arts http://school.eb.com/eb/browse/learning?topic=language_index
	You can now go directly to Britannica's American History and Spanish databases, Annals of American History and Enciclopedia Universal en Español, by clicking the buttons for them on the main Britannica search page.

Please let us know if you have questions or comments about any of these new features.

Hilit Kravitz
Encyclopaedia Britannica

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