List of encyclopedias

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This article lists encyclopedias, including projects to create new works. For a discussion of historical encyclopedias, see the list and discussion in the article encyclopedia.

Contents 1 General 1.1 Printed works 1.1.1 English language 1.1.2 Spanish language 1.1.3 Other languages 1.2 On CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and/or a website 1.2.1 Website only 2 Specialized 2.1 National, regional, ethnic or cultural 2.1.1 Canadian 2.1.2 Iranian 2.1.3 Other 2.2 Subject 2.2.1 Entertainment 2.2.2 Fiction 2.2.3 History and biography 2.2.4 Judaism 2.2.5 Literature 2.2.6 Medicine 2.2.7 Religion (other) 2.2.8 Sports 2.2.9 Other

General

Printed works

English language

• The Children's Encyclopedia, by Arthur Mee.
• Collier's Encyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Columbia University Press last published in 2000.
• Cambridge Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Cambridge University Press last published in 1997.
• Compton's Encyclopedia: 26 volume encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Americana: both a print work and currently a part of Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
• Encyclopædia Britannica: one of the best-known encyclopedias in English. See also the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Funk and Wagnalls
• Grolier's Encyclopedia
• Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge: 20 volumes of equal length
• New American Desk Encyclopedia: Small paperback encyclopedia last published in 1997
• Oracle Encyclopædia: a five volume encyclopedia published in 1895
• Random House Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Random House last published in 1990
• 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

Spanish language

• Diccionario Enciclopédico Espasa
• Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Americano de Literatura, Ciencias y Artes: Barcelona, Montaner y Simón,1887-1899, reprints and appendices up to 1910. Wonderful and very readable articles, many of them written by known Spanish scholars of the day. Reprinted by the London editor Walter M. Jackson (C. H. Simonds Company, Impresores, Boston, Estados Unidos de Norte América). See reference at http://www.filosofia.org/enc/eha/eha.htm
• Enciclopedia Encarta
• Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana; also known as Enciclopedia Espasa o Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe
• Enciclopedia Labor
• Enciclopedia Libre Universal also known as Enciclopedia Libre
• Enciclopedia Salvat
• Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana: the biggest encyclopedia of its time
• Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, 20 volume, DVD and on-line encyclopedia, 2004
• Nueva enciclopedia Durvan

Other languages

• Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste: very large 19th-century German encyclopaedia by Ersch and Gruber
• Brockhaus: German encyclopedia
• Brockhaus and Efron: Russian imperial encyclopedia in 86 volumes
• Enciklopedija Jugoslavije in Serbo-Croatian
• Enciklopedija Slovenije in Slovenian
• Enciclopedia României in Romanian (1939)
• Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana in catalan.
• Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Большая Советская Энциклопедия): The second largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia in Russian; here were 3 editions, 3rd edition of 1969-1978 contains 30 volumes
• Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon: huge 18th-century German encyclopedia by Johann Heinrich Zedler
• Gujin tushu jicheng: Chinese encyclopedia completed in 1725 (10 million Chinese characters)
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon; in German
• Nationalencyklopedin: encyclopedia in Swedish
• Nordisk familjebok: encyclopedia in Swedish
• Otto's encyclopedia: the largest Czech encyclopedia published between 1888-1908 and 1930-1943
• Vojna Enciklopedija in Serbian (The Military Encyclopedia)
• Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN, 13 volumes, 1962-1970, the largest encyclopedia to date in Polish
• Wielka Encyklopedia PWN, 2001-2005, the successor to the WEP PWN; larger and more objective, it is currently being finished

On CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and/or a website

• Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia: only available in electronic form.
• Encyclopædia Britannica. See also the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
• AllRefer.com: Columbia Encyclopedia
• Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, Spanish, 2004
• Microsoft Encarta: published by Microsoft. It is only available in electronic form.
• Micronet Universal: Spanish only.
• Wikipedia: a project to create a comprehensive encyclopedia using wiki software, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
• World Book

Website only

• Enciclopedia Libre: project to create a Spanish encyclopedia using wiki software. Released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
• EncycloZine: an online encyclopedia of books and knowledge.
• Encyclopaedia of Turkey: An online encyclopedia abaout Turkey and Anatolian Culture
• Everything2
• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: an electronic encyclopedia published by Grolier.
• 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.
• Wikinfo: although based structurally on Wikipedia, it is not a Wikimedia project.
• faqs.org Internet FAQ archive

Specialized

National, regional, ethnic or cultural

Canadian

• Canada: An Encyclopedia of the Country - (1898-1900)
• Canada and its Province - (1913-1917)
• Canadian Encyclopedia - (1985 and 1988)
• Encyclopedia Canadiana - (1957)
• The Encyclopedia of Canada - (1935-1937)
• Encyclopedia of Music in Canada - (1981 and 1992)
• The Junior Encyclopedia of Canada - (1989)

Iranian

• Encyclopædia Iranica: on Iranian peoples and Iran (Persia)
• The Persian Encyclopedia : a three volume Persian encyclopedia edited by Gholamhossein Mosahab, partially based on the early editions of the Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encyclopaedia of Iran and Islam published in Persian in Tehran
• Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature published by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature in Persian in Tehran
• The Encyclopedia of Iranian Old Music: Published in Tehran, 2000.

Other

• aeiou Encyclopedia (1996ff.) Austrian
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives: A concise encyclopedia on the Indian subcontinent.
• Encyclopedia of New Jersey
• Encyclopedia Zimbabwe
• The London Encyclopaedia 1007 page reference of the city of London, pub. 1983
• New Handbook of Texas
• Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand - online
• Encyclopedia of Melbourne Sept 2005. Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain. 864 pp. ISBN: 9780521842341 - Online version

Subject

Entertainment

• All Game Guide: A comprehensive online guide to computer and video games created by All Media Guide.
• All Movie Guide: A comprehensive online guide to movies created by All Media Guide.
• All Music Guide: A comprehensive online guide to music created by All Media Guide.
• The Film Encyclopedia

Fiction

• Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Recognition, a fictional Chinese encyclopedia invented by Jorge Luis Borges
• Encyclopedia Galactica was created and referenced by Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pays homage to the Encyclopedia Galactica, but is apparently better because it is slightly cheaper and has the words "Don't Panic" written on the cover.
• The Rocklopedia Fakebandica by T. Mike Childs, pub. 2004
• The Star Trek Encyclopedia

History and biography

• Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography: 19th century Americans
• Children's Encyclopedia of American History
• An Encyclopedia of Battles: comprehensive accounting of battles and wars throughout history.
• An Encyclopedia of World History: a one-volume work from 1940
• Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History From 458 to 1905: Harper & Brothers
• Historical Dictionary of Switzerland [1], historical encyclopedia of Switzerland in German, French and Italian, (Print edition: 2002-).
• The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
• Oxford Classical Dictionary: Despite the name, a one-volume encyclopedia for antiquity.
• Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft: Pauly-Wissowa (Eds.) (1894-1980; specialising in classical antiquity).

Judaism

• Encyclopedia Judaica: published 1972-1991.
• Jewish Encyclopedia: published 1901-1906. Original full 12 volumes.
• Talmudic Encyclopedia (cf. Talk:List of encyclopedias).
• Jewish Virtual Library

Literature

• Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, First edition 1979, second edition (April 1993), by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
• The Literary Encyclopedia, online, started in 2000

Medicine

• American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine

Religion (other)

• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism

Sports

• The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball - 10th Edition, 2004
• Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia, 2004, by John Thorn et al
• Total Tennis, The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia, 2003, by Bud Collins
• The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
• The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2004, 2004, by David Neft et al

Other

• The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants: a comprehensive illustrated work on garden plants.
• American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers
• The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft: 1997, one large volume
• The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts
• Encyclopedia Astronautica: an reference website maintained by space-travel enthusiast Mark Wade.
• Donna Kooler's Encyclopedia of Crochet
• 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 Nutritional Supplements
• An Encyclopaedia of Occultism: 1920 work on occultism
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: also comes in a one-volume edition.
• Encyclopedia Titanica [2]; Exhaustive information about the sinking of RMS Titanic
• The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions
• Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential published since 1972 by the Union of International Associations (UIA). Previously published in three book volumes and on CD-ROM; now published and developed online here.
• Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
• Larousse Gastronomique Encyclopedia of food and cooking.
• A Military Encyclopedia
• 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.
• Nazarian`s Gun`s Recognition Guide
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ongoing since 1995)
• The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
• Dutch author Battus wrote a parody encyclopedia, titled The Encyclopedia.

See also: List of digital library projectsde:Verzeichnis der Enzyklopädien nach Sprachen es:Enciclopedias en inglés fr:Encyclopédies sur Internet sv:Lista över encyklopedier