Using this encyclopedia is like being led to the wonders of nature and music by the immensely knowledgeable and laid back masters of edutainment, Sir David Attenborough and the late Leonard Bernstein. I certainly did. Exegy is unique in its currency, as it is updated six times a year. The only comparable product is Facts on File, but Exegy is a far more sophisticated, powerful, and intuitive system. Using Microsoft Viewer, Exegy offers excellent browsing, searching, and hyperlinking features.
Hot spots provide glossary definitions for selected terms.
Sources are professionally cited, and guidelines for citing Exegy references themselves are provided, a great idea for students writing essays and term papers. Overall, Exegy is a first class and current ready-reference source. This product from JLR Inc. is depressingly bad in itself, and particularly unprofessional in the company of the reference databases just discussed. Ironically, I have to spend more space on it than on the gems in order to be convincing, and to alert readers to an inferior database. Now, here is an important observation . . .