The world on a platter
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Seven encyclopedias on CD-ROMS are evaluated. These are Encyclopedia Americana, Britannica, Compton's, Microsoft Encarta, Grolier's and McGraw-Hill Multimedia Encyclopedia on Science and Technology. They contain varying degrees of text and multimedia implementations.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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The Way Things Work
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Doring Kindersley Multimedia's 'The Way Things Work' is an interesting and informative program for looking up topics. Unfortunately, it takes more time to use the program than to open a normal book. Moreover, it contains many careless statements and factual errors.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1995
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Leonado the Inventor. (Software Review)(Evaluation)$Evaluation (Evaluation)
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InterActive Publishing's 'Leonardo the Inventor' is an interesting, graphics-filled program but it is limited in scope. Moreover, the video sections in the progrm are unattractive.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1995
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