Online Encyclopedia
List of encyclopedias
This is a list of encyclopedias, including projects to create new works.
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General
Printed works
- Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste: very huge 19th-century German encyclopaedia by Ersch and Gruber.
- The Americana: published by Scientific American in the early 1900s.
- Brockhaus: German encyclopedia
- Columbia Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Columbia University Press .
- Collier's Encyclopedia
- Compton's Encyclopedia : 26 volume encyclopedia
- Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana: the biggest encyclopedia of its time. In Spanish.
- Encyclopedia Americana: both a print work and currently a part of Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Encyclopædia Britannica: one of the best-known encyclopedias in the English language. See also the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
- The Children's Encyclopedia, by Arthur Mee .
- Funk and Wagnalls
- Gran Enciclopedia Planeta , 20 volume, DVD & on-line Spanish encyclopedia, 2004
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia
(Большая Советская Энциклопедия): The largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia in Russian. There were 3 editions, 3rd edition of 1969-1978 contains 30 volumes.
- Grolier's Encyclopedia
- Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge : 20 volumes of equal length
- Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon: huge 18th-century German encyclopedia by Johann Heinrich Zedler.
- Gujin tushu jicheng: 10,000 volume Chinese encyclopedia completed in 1725
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
- Nationalencyklopedin: encyclopedia in Swedish
- New American Desk Encyclopedia : Small paperback encyclopedia last published in 1997.
- Nordisk familjebok: encyclopedia in Swedish
- Oracle Encyclopædia: a five volume encyclopedia published in 1895.
- Otto's encyclopedia: the largest Czech encyclopedia published between 1888-1908 and 1930-1943
- Pears Cyclopaedia: a one volume encylopaedia published annually in the United Kingdom.
- The Persian Encyclopedia (دایرةالمعارف فارسی): a three volume Persian encyclopedia edited by Gholamhossein Mosahab, partially based on the early editions of the Columbia Encyclopedia
- Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN , 13 volumes, 1962-1970, the largest so far (a still larger one is currently being written) Polish encyclopedia
- World Book: designed for family use, World Book claims to be the world's best selling print encyclopedia
On CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and/or a website
- Encyclopædia Britannica. See also the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
- AllRefer.com: Columbia Encyclopedia
- Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia: only available in electronic form.
- Microsoft Encarta: published by Microsoft. It is only available in electronic form.
- Gran Enciclopedia Planeta , Spanish, 2004
- World Book
Website only
- Wikipedia: a project to create a comprehensive encyclopedia using wiki software, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
- Nupedia: a peer reviewed, open content encyclopedia project, currently inactive.
- Enciclopedia Libre: project to create a Spanish encyclopedia using wiki software. Released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
- Open Site: an effort inspired by, but not officially affliated with, the Open Directory Project.
- Probert Encyclopaedia: an online topical encyclopedia consisting of almost 100,000 short entries, published by Mathew Probert and based in the United Kingdom.
- Wikinfo: although based structurally on Wikipedia, it is not a Wikimedia project.
- EncycloZine: an online encyclopedia of books and knowledge.
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: an electronic encyclopedia published by Grolier .
- Informationsphere.com: originally founded as an online German language encyclopedia, now in English. Managed by Jan Keller and based in Germany.
- netcyclo: John Anderson's Internet encyclopedia project.
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Specialized
Canadian Encyclopedias
- - (1898-1900)
- Canada and its Province - (1913-1917)
- The Encyclopedia of Canada - (1935-1937)
- Encyclopedia Canadiana - (1957)
- Encyclopedia of Music in Canada - (1981 and 1992)
- Canadian Encyclopedia - (1985 and 1988)
- The Junior Encyclopedia of Canada - (1989)
Jewish Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia Judaica: published 1972-1991.
- Jewish Encyclopedia: published 1901-1906. Original full 12 volumes.
- Talmudic Encyclopedia (cf. Talk:List of encyclopedias).
Other
- American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
- American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers
- American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia
- An Encyclopaedia of Occultism: 1920 work on occultism
- An Encyclopedia of Battles : comprehensive accounting of battles and wars throughout history.
- An Encyclopedia of World History : a one-volume work from 1940
- Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography: 19th century Americans
- Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Children's Encyclopedia of American History
- Donna Kooler's Encyclopedia of Crochet
- Encyclopedia Astronautica: an reference website maintained by space travel enthusiast Mark Wade.
- Encyclopedia of Counseling
- Encyclopedia of Marxism: an online encyclopedia released under the GNU Free Documentation License, part of the Marxist Internet Archive .
- Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine
- Encyclopedia of Mormonism
- Encyclopedia of New Jersey
- Encyclopedia of Nutritional Supplements
- Encyclopedia Titanica [1]; Exhaustive information about the sinking of RMS Titanic
- Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
- Larousse Gastronomique Encyclopedia of food and cooking.
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: also comes in a one-volume edition.
- MusicBrainz: a project to create a free music encyclopedia, released under the Open Content License. The first goal is to create a database similar to CDDB.
- New Handbook of Texas
- Oxford Classical Dictionary: Despite the name, a one-volume encyclopedia for antiquity.
- Pauly-Wissowa (Eds.): Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (1894-1980; specialized on antiquity).
- The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants : a comprehensive illustrated work on garden plants.
- , 2004
- The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft : 1997, one large volume
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, First edition 1979, second edition (April 1993), by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
- The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions
- The Film Encyclopedia
- The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
- The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
- , 2004, by David Neft et al
- The Star Trek Encyclopedia
- The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
- Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia , 2004, by John Thorn et al
- Total Tennis, The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia , 2003, by Bud Collins
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ongoing since 1995)
See also: List of digital library projects
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45