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Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...

Wikipedia is one of the most trafficked sites in the world, with something like 4.3 million articles in English and a total of 22 million articles written in 285 languages. But how much is it worth?

As LL Cool J once said: “don’t call it a comeback.” Wikipedia’s strong internet presence for two decades is hard to dismiss. Yet, many people choose to keep the fact that they use it a secret. And it ...

For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an educated person's home—the smooshed-together diphthong in the first word a ...