print email comment close Fatally Flawed: Refuting the Recent Study on Encyclopedic Accuracy by the Journal Nature URL: http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf Description: March 2006 response to a December 2005 report in Nature magazine "that claimed to compare the accuracy of the online Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikipedia, the Internet database that allows anyone, regardless of knowledge or qualifications, to write and edit articles." The Nature report had found the difference in errors "was not particularly great." This report concludes that almost everything about Nature's investigation was wrong and misleading. Opens directly into a PDF. From Encyclopaedia Britannica. Publisher: Encylopaedia Britannica, Inc. Extra Keywords encylopedia Library of Congress Subject Headings: Electronic encyclopedias Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Reviews LII Database Information: Record 21675 created by Maria Brandt on 05/26/2006 Last modification on 05/30/2006 Published: 06/01/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21675