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Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite

Screenshot of the Encyclopædia Britannica 2010 Ultimate Reference Suite
Developer(s)	Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Initial release	2003; 21 years ago (2003)
Stable release	2015 Ultimate Edition
Operating system	Microsoft Windows Mac OS X
Size	4.2 GB
Available in	English
Type	Encyclopaedia
License	Proprietary software

Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite is an encyclopaedia based on the Encyclopædia Britannica and published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. It was published between 2003 and 2015.

Product description

The DVD contains over 100,000 articles, an atlas, around 35,000 media files (images, video and audio) and a dictionary and thesaurus based on Merriam-Webster.

Awards

Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite received the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers. Its predecessor, Britannica DVD, received Codie awards in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

Linux support

There is no official release of Britannica for the Linux operating system; however, a script is provided that can help experienced users run Encyclopædia Britannica 2004 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD (and other 2004 editions of Britannica) on Linux, with some limitations (for example the dictionary, Flash/QuickTime presentations, and content update functions do not work, and preferences must be edited manually). This script specifically requires version 1.3.1 of JRE, but can usually be made to work with newer versions if the version check is commented out.

Minimum system requirements

The 2012 edition states the following system requirements:

See also

• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Encyclopædia Britannica Online