The pop-up authoritative and comprehensive reference guide

Oxford World Encyclopedia Description :

Here is an authoritative, stimulating, and up-to-date reference work, with over 1.5 million words and 20,000 entries. 

is the first in a new series of reference works from Oxford University Press, featuring iFinger's software , which allows the easy access to electronic reference works. The encyclopedia installs to your hard drive and runs in the back-ground on your PC, so you can consult it whenever you want, with no fuss and no waiting. 

Offers a bounty of information on science and technology, the arts, modern and ancient history, religion, medicine, geography, current affairs, politics, sports, and popular culture.  An entry for every country in the world plus over 4,500 biographical entries are also included.

As you build your library from Oxford, you build a fully integrated reference source. Any iFinger Computer product s when installed on the same Microsoft windows system, will search through all installed reference titles with a click of a mouse button, or when you roll over a word in the Web browser.

Suitable for use at Home , school , or at the office.


Best Features Oxford World Encyclopedia The Best Price

• Authoritative, stimulating, and informative
• Over 1.5 million words and 20,000 entries
• Instant lookup in pop-up window
• Ready whenever you need it
• The iFinger engine is user-friendly and unobtrusive. It runs seamlessly in the background when you start Microsoft windows.
• When activated, simply point your cursor over a word i your Web browser, and the results from the quick reference will appear instantly in a pop-up window. (You can also double-click or configure a custom hot key.)
• The pop-up window gives you a summary of the complete listing - hit the down arrow and the rest of the information appears instantly in the article window. You can then copy information from the listing to any Microsoft windows application.

Oxford World Encyclopedia cd Software requirements

• Pentium 166MHz or higher
• Microsoft windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP
• 32MB of RAM
• 20MB free hard drive space
• 256-color SVGA display
• cd-rom drive
• Internet Explorer 5.0+
• Printer
• Internet access to register and download upGrade educational software s