Grolier

Grolier
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Grolier’s online encyclopedia has two options – Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and The New Book of Knowledge. The New Book of Knowledge is geared for younger readers and is easily navigable with simpler vocabulary. The Multimedia Encyclopedia is more in depth and is an excellent alternative to Wikipedia. Even if you disallow encyclopedias in your works cited for research papers, students should be aware that you can’t beat them for finding background information. Grolier also has many and more versatile visual resources than a simple print encyclopedias.