OVERVIEW

Britannica Academic is a premier, authoritative online research platform designed for colleges, universities, and libraries. It provides trusted, fact-checked information, combining the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries, and multimedia, journals, and primary sources to support academic research. 

It contains thousands of expert-written, fact-checked entries across all subjects from the humanities and social sciences to natural sciences, technology and economics. The platform is continuously updated, ensuring that users have access to the latest information across all disciplines.

In addition to articles, you can find:

• images and videos
• biographical articles
• articles from 100’s of selected journals and magazines for their educational value
• e-books and reference texts
• primary sources such as historic documents, speeches
• an English dictionary with synonyms and related concepts (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary)
• country facts and comparisons, statistics, timelines, and world data

Britannica Academic is particularly relevant in the early stages of your research when you need:

• A quick and reliable overview of a topic
• Definitions of key concepts
• Ideas for search terms and angles for further literature searches
• Access to primary sources

SUBJECT COVERAGE

Britannica Academic focuses on geography, biography, biology and medicine, literature, physics and astronomy, religion, art, Western philosophy, and law.

FURTHER INFORMATION

• Product website
• Britannica Academic Digital Guided Tour 
• 'ASK Britannica' - tutorial on the ASK Britannica AI search tool