[LINK] access to Britannica full articles

[Jan Whitaker]

from: http://web-owls.com/

Encyclopedia Britannica has put much of their content onto the web - 
but usually only the first hundred or so words of each article are 
displayed. You must subscribe to read the rest, or you can register 
for a free trial subscription.

But there's another way! When the URL of the article has been clicked 
from a link on a webpage, the full text is displayed. Any links that 
you include in your website or blog will automatically take your 
readers to the full text version.

Britannica endorses this technique, by the way, but warns that it 
won't work for links from HTML files on your PC. Instead, you must 
host the HTML file on a webserver.

I guess it won't be long until we see a website offering links to 
every Britannica article, or a Firefox extension to streamline this process.




Jan Whitaker
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