Editing Encyclopædia Britannica (section)

=== Related printed material ===
[[File:Children's Britannica.jpg|thumb|''Children's Britannica'']]
''Britannica Junior'' was first published in 1934 as 12 volumes. It was expanded to 15 volumes in 1947, and renamed ''Britannica Junior Encyclopædia'' in 1963.<ref>Britannica Junior Encyclopædia, 1984.</ref> It was taken off the market after the 1984 printing.

A British ''Children's Britannica'' edited by [[John Armitage (editor)|John Armitage]] was issued in London in 1960.<ref>''Children's Britannica''. 1960. Encyclopædia Britannica Limited. London, England.</ref> Its contents were determined largely by the [[eleven-plus]] standardized tests given in Britain.<ref name="EB1988">''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 1988.</ref> Britannica introduced the ''Children's Britannica'' to the US market in 1988, aimed at ages seven to 14.

In 1961, a 16-volume ''Young Children's Encyclopaedia'' was issued for children just learning to read.<ref name="EB1988" /> ''My First Britannica'' is aimed at children ages six to 12, and the ''Britannica Discovery Library'' is for children aged three to six (issued 1974 to 1991).<ref>{{cite web |title=Britannica Discovery Library (issued 1974–1991) |url=https://britannicashop.britannica.co.uk/epages/Store.sf/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Britannicashop/Products/CHLD_PRNT_0551 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928061220/https://britannicashop.britannica.co.uk/epages/Store.sf/?ObjectPath=%2FShops%2FBritannicashop%2FProducts%2FCHLD_PRNT_0551 |archive-date=28 September 2007 |access-date=11 April 2007 |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica (UK) Limited}}</ref> ''Compton's by Britannica'', first published in 2007, incorporating the former ''[[Compton's Encyclopedia]]'', is aimed at 10- to 17-year-olds and consists of 26 volumes and 11,000 pages.<ref>{{cite web |title=2007 Compton's by Britannica |url=https://britannicashop.britannica.co.uk/epages/Store.sf/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Britannicashop/Products/CHLD_PRNT_0710_0715_0696 |access-date=11 April 2007 |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica (UK) Limited}}{{dead link|date=July 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

There have been, and are, several abridged ''Britannica'' encyclopaedias. The single-volume ''Britannica Concise Encyclopædia'' has 28,000 short articles condensing the larger 32-volume ''Britannica'';<ref>{{cite web |title=2003 Britannica Concise Encyclopedia |url=https://britannicashop.britannica.co.uk/epages/Store.sf/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Britannicashop/Products/SVOL_REF_0302 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928061300/https://britannicashop.britannica.co.uk/epages/Store.sf/?ObjectPath=%2FShops%2FBritannicashop%2FProducts%2FSVOL_REF_0302 |archive-date=28 September 2007 |access-date=11 April 2007 |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica (UK) Limited}}</ref> there are authorized translations in languages such as Chinese<ref name="TTO Pham Hong Quan">{{cite news |last=Quân |first=Phạm Hoàng |date=25 July 2015 |title=Tên theo chủ: Qua vụ Google và vụ Britannica tiếng Việt |language=vi |trans-title=Naming by authority: the cases of Google and the Vietnamese Britannica |url=https://tuoitre.vn/tin/tuoi-tre-cuoi-tuan/van-hoa-nghe-thuat/20150724/ten-theo-chu-qua-vu-google-va-vu-britannica-tieng-viet/782406.html |url-status=dead |access-date=11 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150729225754/https://tuoitre.vn/tin/tuoi-tre-cuoi-tuan/van-hoa-nghe-thuat/20150724/ten-theo-chu-qua-vu-google-va-vu-britannica-tieng-viet/782406.html |archive-date=29 July 2015}}</ref> created by [[Encyclopedia of China Publishing House]]<ref>{{Cite book |title=Imperial China: The Definitive Visual History |date=October 2020 |publisher=[[DK (publisher)|DK]] |isbn=978-0-7440-2047-2 |editor-last1=Jiangshan |editor-first1=Wang |edition=First American |location=New York |pages=3 |editor-last2=Yi |editor-first2=Tian}}</ref> and [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]].<ref name="TTO English">{{cite news|title=Britannica Concise Encyclopedia rendered into Vietnamese|work=[[Tuổi Trẻ]] News|date=13 January 2015|access-date=11 August 2015|url=https://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/25374/encyclopaedia-britannica-rendered-into-vietnamese|archive-date=5 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211714/http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/25374/encyclopaedia-britannica-rendered-into-vietnamese|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="TTO Nguyen Viet Long">{{cite news |last=Long |first=Nguyễn Việt |date=9 July 2015 |title=Chuyện kể từ người tham gia làm Britannica tiếng Việt |language=vi |trans-title=Stories from contributors to the Vietnamese Britannica |url=https://tuoitre.vn/tin/tuoi-tre-cuoi-tuan/cuoc-song-muon-mau/cua-so-khoa-hoc/20150709/chuyen-ke-tu-nguoi-tham-gia-lam-britannica-tieng-viet/774858.html |url-status=dead |access-date=11 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150823085230/https://tuoitre.vn/tin/tuoi-tre-cuoi-tuan/cuoc-song-muon-mau/cua-so-khoa-hoc/20150709/chuyen-ke-tu-nguoi-tham-gia-lam-britannica-tieng-viet/774858.html |archive-date=23 August 2015}}</ref>

Since 1938, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. has published annually a ''Book of the Year'' covering the past year's events. A given edition of the ''Book of the Year'' is named in terms of the year of its publication, though the edition actually covers the events of the previous year. The company also publishes several specialized reference works, such as ''Shakespeare: The Essential Guide to the Life and Works of the Bard'' (Wiley, 2006).