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An electronic version of the encyclopedia is available and is licensed by several different companies for use over the World Wide Web . This edition, which is Marked Up in SGML , is updated on a quarterly basis and contains over 84,000 hyperlinked cross-references. Unlike many other major English-language encyclopedias, the complete content of the Columbia encyclopedia is available online to individual users without payment. (Most others make a subset of their content available, and the user is from time to time informed that more content is only available to subscribers.) A particular strength of the Columbia encyclopedia in comparison to other similar reference works might be its concise but often well-written biographies, particularly of artists and writers, usually accompanied by carefully selected Bibliographies . On the negative side, this encyclopedia has sometimes been accused of having a Religious or ethnic bias. While this view has been mainly prevalent with regard to past editions (see below), some people still perceive a certain bias in the present. REFERENCES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia is available from (in alphabetical order):
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