Another tick in the box for Wikipedia aficionados.

According to a review in Information World Review (June 2008)- not available online (boo) - the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology compares unfavourably with Wikipedia as an undergraduate resource. The reviewer - Kim Thomas, a sociology PhD - thought the Blackwell offering suffered from partiality, impenetrability and a US-bias. Wikidpedia she found more useful, especially on UK coverage. The Blackwell offering, for example, has no entry for Michael Young, whom everyone should remember as the founder of the Open University and co-author of the seminal ‘Family and Kinship in East London’.

So one up for the Big Doubleyou.