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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
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<p>The <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i> Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the <i><a href="/facts/Encyclop%25C3%25A6dia_Britannica/CEyVsjlN">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time. This edition of the encyclopaedia, containing 40,000 entries, has entered the <a href="/facts/Public_domain/YWKMDKw4">public domain</a> and is readily available on the Internet. Its use in modern scholarship and as a reliable source has been deemed problematic due to the outdated nature of some of its content. Nevertheless, the 11th edition has retained considerable value as a time capsule of scientific and historical information, as well as scholarly attitudes of the era immediately preceding <a href="/facts/World_War_I/vITTUanQ">World War I</a>. </p>