For more general browsing, Encarta's designers organise access to its vast store of information through ‘centres’. This enhanced word searching proves powerful when you know what you are looking for.
The Memory (Psychology) page, for example, gives you the clickable contents list of the major article on the topic, plus clickable lists of related articles, multimedia resources such as illustrations, photos, video and audio clips plus interactive items such as quizzes. Selecting any one of these then takes you to a ‘Home page’ that organises all of Encarta’s resources in this area. Encarta’s editors have provided links to major articles on three different areas in which the concept of memory is important - psychology, history and, of course, computer architecture. For example, a search for the term ‘memory’ returns a ‘hit list’ of articles with ‘memory’ in the title or in the body text. The results of searches are made much more productive through a ‘web’ of links to related information that has been hand-crafted by Encarta’s editors. Searches in Encarta Premium Suite 2003 return ‘hits’ from the encyclopaedia articles and also from the integrated Encarta Interactive World Atlas and the Encarta Dictionary and Thesaurus. Another selling point for electronic encyclopaedias is the ability to search rapidly for information.
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