Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Full List of Features

Biography of the day

A feature about someone connected with today's date

This day in history

Click the link for events with anniversaries today. You can then also scroll to the bottom of that page to find biographies, events and facts for other dates

World atlas

Has political, physical, land use, peoples, population, precipitation and vegetation maps of continents; country maps; links to related articles and maps

Timelines

Key events in all subject areas from earliest times to the present

Subject browse

Enables you to find info on major subject areas systematically

The year in review

Reviews of each year back to 1993

A dictionary and thesaurus

As well as the full version there are student, elementary and concise versions, so you can find the level of information that suits you

World data analyst

Masses of country statistics - you can view and compare country data from across the world

Gateway to the classics

Over 220 works by 140 of the western world's most influential and well-known authors

Notable quotations

Over 4000 quotations. You can browse them by subject or by author

Personalised workspace

You can store articles and retrieve them later from any PC using your own username and password. Teachers can also use this function t

o save a range of articles that would be helpful as study material and then they can pass out the access details

Advanced searching

On the home page there is a link to 'Advanced search', which has been improved to enable more flexible searching

News feeds

The Britannica Online homepage also includes current headlines from the BBC and the New York Times