Encyclopedia.com vs Encyclopedia of Korean Culture

Encyclopedia.com is a free web reference service with over 300,000 entries from published sources including Oxford University Press and the Columbia Encyclopedia. It also offers more than 50,000 topic summaries with related pictures, videos, and newspaper and magazine articles. The site says it continually updates partner content and allows searches across more than 200 encyclopedias and reference books. Users can search with keywords or browse alphabetically. Results are ordered by relevance according to how often a search term appears in an article. The FAQ gives citation details for The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, including its 2008 publication information. The service is available on the web, and its privacy policy also refers to a mobile application named “Encyclopedia.” Terms allow personal searching, display, downloading, and printing, but prohibit systematic downloading or scraping without permission. The privacy policy describes collection of account, device, browsing, cookie, and session information, as well as an advertising affiliation with CMI Marketing, doing business as CafeMedia.

Encyclopedia of Korean Culture is a free online reference covering Korean history, culture, thought, arts, regions, and daily life. Expert contributors write entries across fields including philosophy, religion, art, and society. Readers can search by keyword, use detailed or media search, or browse by field and entry type. Entries are organized across dimensions such as type and period. The service provides text and images on the web and offers an OpenAPI for individuals and institutions building services or applications with encyclopedia content. The API can list, search, and retrieve article and media records. Applicants submit a detailed purpose; an issued key arrives by email and becomes usable 30 minutes after registration, passed in the X-API-Key header. Text and media marked Public Nuri may be reused when the Academy owns all economic rights and the stated attribution format is followed. Unmarked media may require separate permission. The print edition began in 1991 with 27 volumes and approximately 65,000 entries.