一、优点 《新不列颠百科全书》(The New Encyclopaedia Britannica,15th ed.Philip W.Goetz,ed.-in-chief,Chicago,Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp.,1985,32v.)拥有任何其他美国百科全书无法比拟的收录范围和丰富的事实资料。该书于1985年出版,编辑费用达2,400万美元,是十年中首次较为完整的修订版本。它改正了前几版中的许多不足之处,并通过增加《百科详编》(Macropaedia)和《百科简编》(Micropaedia)之间的区别来扩大在1974年版中所采用的许多革新成果。 I. ADVANTAGES The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed. Philip W. Goetz, ed. -in-chief, Chicago, Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp., 1985, 32v.) Possesses no other US encyclopedia Comparison of the coverage and a wealth of factual information. The book, published in 1985 with an editorial fee of $ 24 million, was the first complete revision of the decade. It corrected many of the deficiencies in previous editions and expanded many of the innovations used in the 1974 edition by adding the distinction between “Macropaedia” and “Micropaedia.”