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This is a list of encyclopedias, including projects to create new
works.
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
- 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
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
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: Master Review and Tutorial for the National Counselor Examination and State Exams
- 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.
- 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.
- The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft: 1997, one large volume
- The Element
Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts
- The Encyclopedia of
Science Fiction, (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
- The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball
- The Star Trek Encyclopedia
- The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
- Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ongoing since
1995)
See also: List of digital
library projects
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