1. Be on the Library Homepage
2. Select Full text Articles.
3. Under the category ENCYCLOPEDIAS select Encyclopaedia Britannica
4. Type in your search words and press the enter key or click on GO
5. On the left side of the Web page you can see choices for "content source"

• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Concise Encyclopedia
• Media
• Web Sites
• Journals and Magazines
• Dictionary

Here are some search tips for using Britannica Online

1. If your search includes more than one term and you don't use a Boolean operator, the search engine will insert the Boolean "OR" and look for occurrences of either term.
2. In most cases you want to have results that INCLUDE both or ALL of the words. You can use special terms called Boolean operators to refine your search. For example, you can ask EB Online to find articles that include all of your search terms.
       examples:
     revolution AND 1848 This search would locate articles that include both "revolution" and "1848."
     dance AND modern
3. Or, you can excludearticles that use a particular term:
       example:  apple NOT computer would find articles about apples, but not about Apple Computer.
4. If you want the search to cover a range of closely related words that differ only in their endings, you can use an asterisk * after the beginning of a word.
       example: anthropol*
   will yield articles on anthropology,anthropologist, anthropological, anthropologic,anthropologie, and so on.

Now search for your topic in Britannica Online. Write down the title make notes about what you found.

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Note: the library has a print copy ) in the Reference collection of  
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica   Call Number: Ref AE5 .E363 1998

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