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 Espasa: 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
- 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 Universal-Lexicon: huge 18th-century German encyclopedia by Johann Heinrich Zedler.
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
- Nationalencyklopedin: encyclopedia in Swedish
- Nordisk familjebok: encyclopedia in Swedish
- Oracle Encyclopædia: a five volume encyclopedia published in 1895.
- Pears Cyclopaedia: a one volume encylopaedia published annually in the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1up Info:Columbia Encyclopedia
- Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia: only available in electronic form.
- Enciclopedia Libre: project to create a Spanish encyclopedia using wiki software. Released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
- 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.
- Internet-Encyclopedia: Wikipedia spin-off.
- Microsoft Encarta: published by Microsoft. It is only available in electronic form.
- netcyclo: John Anderson's Internet encyclopedia project.
- Nupedia: a peer reviewed, open content encyclopedia project, currently inactive.
- 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.
- Wikipedia: a project to create a comprehensive encyclopedia using wiki software, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Specialized
Canadian Encyclopedias
- Canada: An Encyclopedia of the Country - (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
- Catholic Encyclopedia (cf. Talk:List of encyclopedias).
- The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants: a comprehensive illustrated work on garden plants.
- Encyclopedia Astronautica: an reference website maintained by space travel enthusiast Mark Wade.
- An Encyclopedia of Battles: comprehensive accounting of battles and wars throughout history.
- Encyclopedia of Marxism: an online encyclopedia released under the GNU Free Documentation License, part of the Marxist Internet Archive.
- Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits: a memeware reference hypertext with a materialist and futurist perspective.
- 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.
- 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 Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, (April 1993) by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ongoing since 1995)