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Encyclopædia Universalis
“Global Reference Center (GRC)”, the option service of “Britannica Online Japan”, provides “Encyclopædia Universalis”,
online encyclopedia service in French. This Guided Tour is to show how to use it.
To p P a g e
Rechercher《Search》
dico《Dictionary》
Advanced Search
This Day in History
Typing your search term
and clicking on 《OK》, the
list of related articles will be
displayed.
Start up of dictionary
（see P.4）.
Advanced search with
AND/OR, full-text, title,
multimedia etc.
You can also check any
date you are interested
in.
La Classification《Subject》
Internet
Dossier du mois
Une animation & vidéo
Subject browse
Recommended web
sites by the editors.
You can check by
subject, too.
Collection of the articles
on monthly subjects
Animations and videos
Question d’actualité
Photo of the day
L’Atlas《World Atlas》
Maps, basic information and
statistics on the nations in the
world (see P.4).
La Bibliothèque
Analysis and comments on
writings and publications.
Clés pour le XXle siècle
Articles on key words in the
21st century.
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Collection of the articles
on news and up-to-date
topics
Dossier d’initation
Special articles on the
interesting topics like
biotechnology, natural
disaster, World War I
La photo du jour
Entretien la semaine
Interview video with
authorities in various
areas
L’expérience de la semaine
Interactive learning
materials for principles
and theories of natural
science
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S e a r c h R e s u l ts
Typing your search term and clicking on 《OK》, the list of the titles include the term and results of full-text search will be
displayed in the left window. Choose an article you are looking for to display the list of related articles and multimedia
contents.
Mots-clés
Search results by title
Texte Intégral
Search result by full-text
texte
Switch to display / hide of
articles
medias
Switch to display / hide of
multi-media contents
Outline / Thumbnail
Move the pointer on a
search result to display
outline of the article and
thumbnail of multimedia
contents
Page# of search results
If there are more than
twenty articles, the page
number is displayed.
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Type of contents
《page》 : article
《Média》 : multimedia
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Article Page
Encyclopedia articles consist of “title”, “table of contents”, “text”, “multi-media” etc.
Author
zoom typographique《Font size》
Imprimer《Print》
The name of author
and his/her profile
《++》 for larger font, 《ｰｰ》 for
smaller font, 《zoom typographique》
for standard sized
Print article. Partial print also
available from the table of
contents, the name of author,
additional readings etc.
Sommaire《Table of contents》
Multimedia
texte
Click on a heading to go straight to
that section.
Multimedia in the article. Click
on images to enlarge / play
them.
Switch to hide / display of
the text.
Contexte《Search results》
The list of search results. You can
move to other article pages without
return to the search results
page.
Documents lies
《Related information》
The list of related articles, additional
readings etc.
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medias
Switch to hide / display of
the multi-medias.
Pop-up Dictionary
Double click on a word in
articles to pop-up French
dictionary so that you can
check the meaning of the word.
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Dictionary
Click on
to start up the online French dictionary.
You can also use the dictionary by double click on a word in articles.
Search
Typing your search term and
clicking on 《OK》, the search
results will be displayed.
Search results
You can check the meaning
of the word here.
Atlas
Maps, basic information and statistics on the nations in the world are available here.
Continents
Choose a nation from a
region.
Pays
Choose a nation from its
initial.
Planisphère
Display a map of a
nation from the map of
the world.
Basic Information
Maps, flags and statistics
of the nation. You can
jump to the encyclopedia
article, too.
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※ Encyclopedia Universalis is an encyclopedia edited in France. For that reason, there are cases
the names, classifications and/or definitions of the territories, territorial waters, races and/or languages
are different from those in Japan or other countries.
※ This Guided Tour is as of February, 2008. Specifications and/or screens shown here might be revised
without prior notice.
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Encyclopædia Universalis
Guided Tour 2008-2
February 1st, 2008, Britannica Japan Co., Ltd.
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