--- product_id: 38898396 title: "Encyclopedia Britannica 2004 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD" brand: "pearson education" price: "€ 2.97" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/38898396-encyclopedia-britannica-2004-ultimate-reference-suite-dvd store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # 167,000 Curated Websites Comprehensive Knowledge Base Interactive World Atlas Encyclopedia Britannica 2004 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD **Brand:** pearson education **Price:** € 2.97 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > Unlock the World of Knowledge! 🌍 ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Encyclopedia Britannica 2004 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD by pearson education - **How much does it cost?** € 2.97 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/38898396-encyclopedia-britannica-2004-ultimate-reference-suite-dvd) ## Best For - pearson education enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted pearson education brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Ultimate Knowledge Hub:** Dive into the vast world of information with the Encyclopedia Britannica. - • **Student-Friendly Resources:** Engage with the Britannica Student Encyclopedia tailored for young learners. - • **Extensive Dictionary Access:** Utilize Merriam-Webster's dictionaries and thesauruses for precise language mastery. - • **Multimedia Learning Experience:** Explore videos and audio clips that bring knowledge to life. - • **Global Insights at Your Fingertips:** Navigate the world with an interactive atlas and a wealth of online resources. ## Overview The Encyclopedia Britannica 2004 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD is a comprehensive educational resource that includes the full Encyclopedia Britannica, a student encyclopedia, access to 167,000 curated websites, Merriam-Webster dictionaries and thesauruses, a world atlas, and a variety of multimedia content, making it an essential tool for learners and professionals alike. ## Description A tremendous resource. Three Complete Reference Libraries in 1 DVD. WIN/MAC DVD-ROM Software. Review: Five Stars - Excellent product and service! Review: insightful articles, at times difficult and academic - It has some good articles... but at times it is hard to read, like a textbook written in greek, rather than in plain simple english. also, while I was looking as Nash Solution in Game Theory, I found that the tables are missing! How could that be! Then I joined the 90 day online trial, which required a credit card... depending on people to forget about the subscription and earn money from that... what a good and not so moral strategy... interestingly, the online content contains the missing tables... and it costs $25 per year. So it might be better just to subscribe to the online version, and be able to find articles any where you are with an online computer. also the DVD-ROM version doesn't let you copy the whole article to Word or Notepad with ease. You need to do it screenful by screenful. The online version is just a webpage and allows easy copying to Word or Notepad. ## Features - Includes: Encyclopedia Britannica, Links to Magazines - Britannica Student Encyclopedia, 167,000 Web Sites - Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia - Mirriam Webster's Dictionaries & Thesauruses - World Atlas, Videos, Audio Clips & More! ## Images ![Encyclopedia Britannica 2004 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51VCE402RPL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars *by D***. on November 4, 2014* Excellent product and service! ### ⭐⭐⭐ insightful articles, at times difficult and academic *by E***A on March 6, 2004* It has some good articles... but at times it is hard to read, like a textbook written in greek, rather than in plain simple english. also, while I was looking as Nash Solution in Game Theory, I found that the tables are missing! How could that be! Then I joined the 90 day online trial, which required a credit card... depending on people to forget about the subscription and earn money from that... what a good and not so moral strategy... interestingly, the online content contains the missing tables... and it costs $25 per year. So it might be better just to subscribe to the online version, and be able to find articles any where you are with an online computer. also the DVD-ROM version doesn't let you copy the whole article to Word or Notepad with ease. You need to do it screenful by screenful. The online version is just a webpage and allows easy copying to Word or Notepad. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Britannica 2004 versus Encarta 2004 *by I***A on May 10, 2004* I have bought both Encarta and Britannica for years (EB in printed edition too: 32 volumes, 32.000 sheets). This is my opinion in brief: Encarta is excellent in all aspects, but Britannica's authoritative text (sometimes outdated) makes interesting to buy both. ¿DVD or CD? Both editions are actually the same. You can copy them in your hard disk. TEXT: Britannica is a superb encyclopedia in text (not in visual aid) since 1768 (you know: an article by Einstein and so on...). Text in electronic version differs from printed encyclopedia (very large articles have been shortened). Britannica claims that it has more items than Encarta, but this is a joke: articles like "Mexico" are only one (with a lot of subdivisions) in Encarta, while in Britannica subdivisions are unconnected, and you must "jump" from one subdivision to another, which is slow and very annoying, especially if you want to copy it in "WORD". Very often, the text is not updated. In the other hand, Encarta's text is not bad at all. Most articles have the name of their contributors (professions, works...): They are not John Doe. You can find large fragments of literary works, literature guides, a lot of sidebars and thousands of quotations. "Encarta Africana" is included. The Pop-Up (double clicking a word) Dictionary and Thesaurus has sound for correct pronunciation (by the way, it can read aloud, with a robotic and ugly voice, a whole article). The "Translation Dictionaries" to Spanish, French, German and Italian must be improved, because they are minimal. It gives you a lot of "Internet links", even if you are not connected. With Britannica you must be "on-line" and it searches in an EB Web page. In theory you can update Britannica over the Internet free for a year quarterly (4 times), but this does not work: You can not find new files. Encarta can be updated free EVERY WEEK with new articles and additions or corrections to the old ones (till October 2004). With Encarta updating really works. Technically, is amazing to see the changes in old items. ATLAS Britannica has not a real atlas; only a worlds map whose maximum detail is the States of USA. Statistics are very poor. Encarta's Atlas is like another encyclopedia, with a great detail (1 cm/ 4 km all over the world) and 20 types of atlas presentations (statistical ones can be counted by dozens). If you look a geographical article (city, river...) you can see in a corner where it is placed and, with only a click, open the atlas. In articles of cities, if you are on-line, you can see in another corner the weather of this place in that moment. If it is a USA place, you can read the latest news. MULTIMEDIA: They say that "serious" or "adult" readers do not care about "pictures"; that multimedia is only for kids. I do not agree, because I think that, sometimes, "A picture is worth a thousand words". Works of art, anatomy, historical maps, diagrams ... Encarta devastates Britannica with a lot of photos, paintings, drawings, charts & tables, animations, interactivities, videos, music and sounds, pictures, 2-D and 3-D virtual tours, 360-degrees views, timeline, games... It is not only the quantity and quality. It is the easy access you have to all the multimedia, and that text and multimedia are fully integrated. Britannica is not really multimedia. It has photos and videos, but they make the program slow and sluggish. They should edit an alternative version with only text, as they did with the first edition in 1995. It worked fast and easy in old computers. INTERFACE AND PERFORMANCE: This is the worst side of Britannica. With Encarta you only have to type a word or the beginning of a word to see all the articles and multimedia that contain it. If Encarta does not find anything, it gives you automatically alternative spellings. Even if you write the name of a small village lost in any country, you see it in the atlas. If you need to copy text or pictures, the integration with Microsoft WORD is perfect. It has additional ways to find content, including subject or multimedia browsing, "related articles" and the standard A-Z method. The "Research Organizer" is very helpful too. Encarta's TEXT FONT is very clear (Britannica's...) and you can choose 3 sizes. Navigating with Britannica is different. 2004 edition is better than 2003 one, but still it is disappointing. I will only give you an example: if you do not know the exact and correct spelling of a name or word, it does not help you with similar spellings (unless you open a window and fight with it). As I said before, the program's performance speed is very slow and sluggish, and it must be dramatically improved. To go "back and forward" you do not find any icon and you need to open a "menu".... One "pro" for Britannica: they say it works with Macintosh. I repeat my modest piece of advice: Encarta is excellent in all aspects, but Britannica's authoritative text (sometimes outdated) make interesting to buy both. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.at/products/38898396-encyclopedia-britannica-2004-ultimate-reference-suite-dvd](https://www.desertcart.at/products/38898396-encyclopedia-britannica-2004-ultimate-reference-suite-dvd) --- *Product available on Desertcart Austria* *Store origin: AT* *Last updated: 2026-07-09*