June 4, 2008
One up to Wikipedia
Another tick in the box for Wikipedia aficionados.
According to a review in Information World Review (June 2008)- not available online – the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology compares unfavourably with Wikipedia as an undergraduate resource. The reviewer – Kim Thomas, a sociology PhD – thought the Blackwell offering suffered from partiality, impenetrability and a US-bias. Wikidpedia she found more useful, especially on UK coverage. The Blackwell offering, for example, has no entry for Michael Young, founder of the Open University and co-author of the seminal ‘Family and Kinship in East London’.
So one up for the Big Doubleyou.
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