New version of EncycloReader

February 21, 2022 - Reading time: 2 minutes

New version (1.6) of https://encycloreader.org for reading encyclopedias of the EncycloSphere project is released. This is another milestone to create a resource that allows searches in about 7.5 million articles from encyclopedias with different publication policies.

Here is a list of main changes for the release 1.6:

• Fuzzy search, i.e. a technique that uses algorithms to find strings that match patterns approximately.
• Options to turn off encyclopedias in "Preferences". See https://encycloreader.org/preferences/. This is useful if you do not want to pay attention to certain encyclopedias.
• Now EncycloSearch  includes  Encyclopedia Britannica (11th edition)  with more than 30,000 articles from  public domain.  This, perhaps, one of the best resources to read historic encyclopedic articles. This version of Britannica was published by the Cambridge University Press in 1910–11. Currently, all such articles are in the public domain.

By S.Chekanov (Aug 2022)