Columbia Encyclopedia

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| pub_date = 1935

| media_type = Print

| pages = about 3,200 (sixth edition)

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The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9024878/Columbia-Encyclopedia |title=Columbia Encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=April 29, 2015 |access-date=August 31, 2015}} produced by Columbia University Press and, in the last edition, sold by the Gale Group.{{cite web|url=http://www.rdsinc.com/pdf/facts/Columb.pdf|title=New! The Columbia Encyclopedia|publisher=Gale Group|access-date=26 October 2015|archive-date=October 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151028081949/http://www.rdsinc.com/pdf/facts/Columb.pdf|url-status=dead}} First published in 1935,{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/16276011173/posts/10150630701591174/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/16276011173/10150630701591174 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=The First Edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia Published 1935 |publisher=Columbia University Press |website=Facebook |access-date=August 31, 2015 |quote=In 1928, Columbia University Press had established a separate editorial department with the intention of publishing the Columbia Encyclopedia, the first comprehensive English-language encyclopedia in one volume. In 1935, the first edition of the encyclopedia was published.}}{{cbignore}} and continuing its relationship with Columbia University, the encyclopedia underwent major revisions in 1950 and 1963; the current edition is the sixth, printed in 2000. It contains over 51,000 articles totaling some 6.5 million words and has also been published in two volumes.

An electronic version of the encyclopedia is available, and the Columbia Encyclopedia is licensed by several different companies for use over the Internet.{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/about |title=About us Encyclopedia.com |website=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=September 12, 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/ |title=Encyclopedia |website=infoplease.com |access-date=August 31, 2015}}