World Book Online
World Book Online is available by subscription, and offered for free with a library card (if your library has a membership). This online database is the World Book and more. With multiple options for search, including kids, student, advanced, and more, finding appropriate and accurate information has never been easier.
World Book Online Accessibility
World Book Online Search Strategies
Unlike other services or databases, World Book Online does not have an auto fill option when searching, which I found simultaneously surprising and mildly inconvenient. Though it is an online version of an encyclopedia, so results can only vary so much. Advanced search can narrow articles, images, and audio.
For this example, I chose the result featured on the top of the list in the above left image. The result was indicative of a traditional encyclopedia entry, however the formatting and organization of the information is slightly different to accommodate and take advantage of the online style.
This is what followed:
This is what followed: