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Main page This is a list of notable encyclopedias sorted by branch of knowledge. For the purposes of this list, an encyclopedia is defined as a "compendium that contains
Contents information on either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge." For other sorting standards, see List of encyclopedias.
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2.1.9 Italy
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2.1.11 New Zealand
2.1.12 Poland
2.1.13 Slovenia
2.1.14 Sweden
2.1.15 Ukraine
2.1.16 United Kingdom
2.1.17 United States of America
2.1.18 Yugoslavia
2.2 Field
2.2.1 Art and architecture
2.2.2 Entertainment
2.2.3 Environmental science
2.2.4 Fashion and dress
2.2.5 Fiction
2.2.6 History and biography
2.2.7 Law
2.2.7.1 International and comparative law
2.2.8 Literature
2.2.9 Mathematics
2.2.10 Medicine
2.2.11 Music
2.2.12 Philosophy
2.2.13 Religion
2.2.13.1 Christianity
2.2.13.2 Islam
2.2.13.3 Judaism
2.2.14 Science
2.2.15 Engineering
2.2.15.1 Chemical Engineering
2.2.16 Social sciences
2.2.16.1 Economics
2.2.17 Sports
2.2.18 Other
3 See also
4 References

General knowledge [ edit ]

Catalan [ edit ]

Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana – Catalan-language encyclopedia, started in fascicles, and published in 1968 by Edicions 62

Chinese [ edit ]

Encyclopedia of China
Gujin tushu jicheng – Chinese language encyclopedia completed in 1725 (10 million Chinese characters)

Czech [ edit ]

Otto's encyclopedia – largest Czech-language encyclopedia published between 1888–1908 and 1930–43

Danish [ edit ]

Den Store Danske Encyklopædi

Dutch [ edit ]

Winkler Prins, published in print between 1870 and 1993 and made available digitally to the present day
Oosthoek, published between 1907 and 1981
Christelijke Encyclopedie, published between 1926 and 2005
Eerste Nederlandse Systematisch Ingerichte Encyclopaedie, published between 1946 and 1952
Standaard Encyclopedie, published between 1969 and 1974 by Standaard Uitgeverij Antwerpen
Grote Nederlandse Larousse Encyclopedie, published between 1971 and 1979
Grote Spectrum Encyclopedie, published between 1974 and 1980

English [ edit ]

Academic American Encyclopedia – 21-volume work published in 1980, also issued by Grolier under the names Barnes & Noble New American
Encyclopedia, Global International Encyclopedia, Grolier Academic Encyclopedia, Grolier International Encyclopedia, Lexicon Universal Encyclopedia, and
Macmillan Family Encyclopedia
Chambers's Encyclopaedia – published in 1859 by W. Chambers and R. Chambers
The Children's Encyclopedia – by Arthur Mee, published 1908–64 in the UK and in the US starting in 1910 as Grolier's The Book of Knowledge
Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia – published by Dorling Kindersley
Collier's Encyclopedia
Columbia Encyclopedia – one-volume encyclopedia from Columbia University Press last published in 2000
Compton's Encyclopedia – 26-volume encyclopedia
Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences – 1728 publication by Ephraim Chambers
Dobson's Encyclopædia – first encyclopedia printed in the United States, but mostly a reprint of the Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition
Edinburgh Encyclopædia – 18 volumes printed and published by William Blackwood and edited by David Brewster between 1808 and 1830
Encyclopædia Britannica – one of the best-known encyclopedias in English, online only since 2010
Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite – DVD version of Encyclopædia Britannica
Encyclopædia Metropolitana – 39 volumes in 59 parts published between 1817 and 1845
Encyclopedia Americana – both a print work and currently a part of Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
English Cyclopaedia – 23 volumes, published 1854–1862
English Encyclopaedia – 10 volumes, published in 1802
Everybody's Enquire Within – illustrated book of miscellaneous knowledge issued in weekly instalments from 1937 to 1938
Everyman's Encyclopaedia – published by Joseph Dent from 1913 as part of the Everyman's Library
Everything2 – collaborative Web-based database of interlinked user-submitted articles
Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia – first published in 1912; changed its name to Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia in 1931
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia – electronic encyclopedia published by Grolier
Groliers Encyclopedia
Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia – edited by John Alexander Hammerton and published 1921–22
Hutchinson Encyclopedia – single-volume work first published in 1948
Microsoft Encarta – computer-based encyclopedia published by Microsoft, now discontinued
New American Cyclopedia – 16 volumes published between 1857 and 1866
Nupedia – peer reviewed, open content online encyclopedia project, currently inactive
Open Site – effort inspired by, but not officially affiliated with, the Open Directory Project
Oracle Encyclopædia – five-volume encyclopedia published in 1895
An Outline of Modern Knowledge – published in 1931 by Victor Gollancz
Pears Cyclopaedia – one-volume encyclopaedia published annually in the United Kingdom
Probert Encyclopaedia – online topical encyclopedia consisting of almost 100,000 short entries, published by Mathew Probert and based in the United
Kingdom
World Book Encyclopedia – designed for family use; the world's best selling print encyclopedia

German [ edit ]

Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste – very large 19th-century encyclopaedia by Ersch and Gruber
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon – huge 18th-century encyclopedia by Johann Heinrich Zedler
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon

Italian [ edit ]

Treccani – also known as Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti

Latin [ edit ]

Lexicon Universale – published in 1698

Persian [ edit ]

The Book of Healing – 30-volume Persian-language encyclopedia published by Avicenna ‫ اﺑن ﺳﯾﻧﺎ‬in 1027 (Arabic: ‫ ﮐﺗﺎب اﻟﺷﻔﺎء‬Kitāb al-Šifāʾ, Latin: Sufficientia)
The Persian Encyclopedia – three-volume encyclopedia edited by Gholamhossein Mosahab, partially based on the early editions of the Columbia
Encyclopedia

Polish [ edit ]

Nowe Ateny – published in 1745–1746

Universal Encyclopedia – 1859, 28 volumes, Orgelbrand
Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN – 1962–1970, 13 volumes, PWN
Wielka Encyklopedia PWN – 2001–2005, 31 volumes, PWN

Russian [ edit ]

Brockhaus and Efron – imperial encyclopedia in 86 volumes

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Большая Советская Энциклопедия) – second largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia in Russian; there were three
editions; the third edition of 1969–78 contains 30 volumes
Great Russian Encyclopedia – universal Russian encyclopedia, completed in 36 volumes (2004-2017)

Slovenian [ edit ]

Enciklopedija Slovenije

Spanish [ edit ]

Enciclopedia Libre Universal (also known as Enciclopedia Libre) – project to create a Spanish encyclopedia using wiki software, released under the GFDL
Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana – largest encyclopedia of its time; also known as Enciclopedia Espasa o Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe

Swedish [ edit ]

Nationalencyklopedin – encyclopedia in Swedish

Susning.nu – project to create a Swedish-language encyclopedia using wiki software; an anyone-can-edit encyclopedia until 2004; shut down in 2009

Turkish [ edit ]

Anabritannica – published in Turkey and based on the Britannica Micropædia

Ekşi Sözlük – collaborative hypertext Turkish dictionary and encyclopedia site that has a similar concept with Everything2 or H2G2

Ukrainian [ edit ]

Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia (Українська радянська енциклопедія) – encyclopedia in Ukrainian; its first edition was 17 volumes

Multiple languages [ edit ]

Wikipedia – world's largest free encyclopedia; a project to create a comprehensive encyclopedia using wiki software

Specialized encyclopedias [ edit ]

National, regional, ethnic or cultural [ edit ]

Australia [ edit ]
Australian Encyclopaedia (1925, 1958, 1977, 1983, 1988, 1996)

Austria [ edit ]
aeiou Encyclopedia (1996ff.)

Bangladesh [ edit ]
Banglapedia – 10 volumes published in 2003; bilingual; English and Bengali

Canada [ edit ]
The Canadian Encyclopedia (1985 and 1988)

Croatia [ edit ]
Hrvatska opća enciklopedija (started in 1999 – 7th vol. 2005 of 11)

Ethiopia [ edit ]
Encyclopaedia Aethiopica – basic reference work for Ethiopian and Eritrean studies

Iceland [ edit ]
Icelandic Encyclopedia A-Ö

Iran [ edit ]
Encyclopædia Iranica – on Iranian peoples and Persia
Encyclopaedia Islamica
Encyclopaedia of Imam Ali
The Encyclopedia of Iranian Old Music – published in Tehran, 2000
Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature – published by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature in Persian in Tehran
Encyclopaedia of Shia

Italy [ edit ]
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Biographical dictionary of Italians) – Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Malaysia [ edit ]
The Encyclopedia of Malaysia – published from 1998 to 2007

New Zealand [ edit ]

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (1897–08) – unofficial; most subjects paid to have their articles appear; online at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand (1966–) – official
Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand (2005–) – official, incorporating the full text of An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

Poland [ edit ]
Encyklopedia Polski (Encyclopedia of Poland) – 2005, 10 volumes

Slovenia [ edit ]
Enciklopedija Slovenije – published in 1987–2002

Sweden [ edit ]
Nordisk familjebok – encyclopedia in Swedish

Ukraine [ edit ]
Encyclopedia of Ukraine – English five-volume version of the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies
Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine – online version of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine [1]
Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine – multi-volume comprehensive encyclopedia about Ukraine from the 20th and 21st centuries [2]

United Kingdom [ edit ]

The London Encyclopaedia – 1007-page reference of the city of London; pub. 1983

United States of America [ edit ]

See also: List of online state encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Chicago
Encyclopedia of New Jersey
The Encyclopedia of New York City
Handbook of Texas

Yugoslavia [ edit ]
Enciklopedija Jugoslavije
Opća enciklopedija JLZ (1977–82)

Field [ edit ]

Art and architecture [ edit ]

Grove Dictionary of Art – in 34 volumes (1996)

Entertainment [ edit ]
Allgame – comprehensive online guide to computer and video games created by All Media Guide
Allmovie – comprehensive online guide to movies created by All Media Guide
Allmusic – comprehensive online guide to music created by All Media Guide
The Aurum Film Encyclopedia
The Motion Picture Guide

Environmental science [ edit ]

Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) – electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) – sponsored by UNESCO—an interdisciplinary encyclopedia, inspired by the sustainable development
movement

Fashion and dress [ edit ]

Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion – edited by Joanne B. Eicher, 10 volumes

Fiction [ edit ]
Not to be confused with List of fictional books.

The Rocklopedia Fakebandica – by T. Mike Childs, published in 2004

The Star Trek Encyclopedia

History and biography [ edit ]

African American National Biography
Africana – The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience
American National Biography
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography – 19th-century American encyclopedia
Conspiracy Encyclopedia
An Encyclopedia of World History – single-volume work; First Edition, 1940; Sixth Edition, 2001
Encyklopedia Polski
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History
Lexikon des Mittelalters – German encyclopedia of medieval history, published in 1980
Oxford Classical Dictionary – despite the name, a one-volume encyclopedia for antiquity

Law [ edit ]
American Jurisprudence
Corpus Juris Secundum
Halsbury's Laws of Australia
Halsbury's Laws of England
Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia
Encyclopedia of Law

International and comparative law [ edit ]

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law

Literature [ edit ]
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction – first published in 1979 by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
Literary Encyclopedia (Литературная энциклопедия) – 11 volumes, 1929–39 (incomplete; 12th volume draft later published)
The Literary Encyclopedia – online encyclopedia started in 2000
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural – published in 1986; edited by Jack Sullivan
The Poets' Encyclopedia – edited by Michael Andre
Soviet Concise Literary Encyclopedia – Soviet-era encyclopedia of literature; 9 volumes published between 1962 and 1978

Mathematics [ edit ]
CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics – second edition 2002, based on Mathworld
Encyclopaedia of Mathematics – published by Springer Verlag in 2002
Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security – published by Springer-Verlag in 2005
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics (EDM2) – second edition published in 1993 by The Mathematical Society of Japan
Klein's encyclopedia – published 1898–1935
Mathworld – online encyclopedia by Eric Weisstein
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)
planetmath

Medicine [ edit ]
For further examples, see Category:Encyclopedias of medicine.

Kitab al-Tasrif (The Method of Medicine) – by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)

The Canon of Medicine – by Avicenna
Encyclopedia of Public Health
Medical Compendium in Seven Books – by Paul of Aegina in the 7th century CE; it was the most complete medical encyclopedia in its day
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

Music [ edit ]
Eerste Nederlandse Pop Encyclopedie
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
International Encyclopedia of Women Composers
Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera

Philosophy [ edit ]
Encyclopedia of Philosophy – edited by Paul Edwards
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion [ edit ]

Christianity [ edit ]
The Catholic Encyclopedia – 1907–12 (15 vls.)
Encyclopædia Biblica
Encyclopedia of Christianity – John Stephen Bowden, ed., 1 vol., Oxford UP, 2006
Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche – 1930–38 (10 vls.)
New Catholic encyclopedia – 1967–96 (15 vls. and 4 supplementary vls.); 2. ed. 2003 (15 vls.)
Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE) – Hrsg. Gerhard Müller. 38 vls.; Berlin 1977–2007

Islam [ edit ]
Encyclopaedia Islamica
Encyclopaedia of Imam Ali
Encyclopaedia of Islam
Encyclopaedia of Shia
The Hussaini Encyclopedia
Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam

Judaism [ edit ]
Encyclopaedia Judaica – published 1972–91, second edition 2006
Jewish Encyclopedia – published 1901–06; original full 12 volumes
Jewish Virtual Library
Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian – 11 volumes, published 1976–2005 in Jerusalem
Talmudic Encyclopedia
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe – Yale UP, 2008

Science [ edit ]
Encyclopedia Astronautica – reference website maintained by space-travel enthusiast Mark Wade
Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry – Wiley, 2000, 15 volumes
Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh
Encyclopedia of Genetics
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) – owned by John Wiley & Sons; has both a 20-volume print edition and an online edition
The Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology – also comes in a one-volume edition
The New Encyclopedia of Snakes

Engineering [ edit ]

Chemical Engineering [ edit ]

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry - currently at 7th edition. 1st edition in german available in the public domain.

Social sciences [ edit ]

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences – edited by Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes, 26 vls., Elsevier, 2001
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences – edited by David L. Sills, New York, New York (etc.); Macmillan, 1968
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences – edited by William A. Darity, Jr., Detroit (etc); Macmillan Reference USA, 2008

Economics [ edit ]
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics – 2nd Edition (2008)

Sports [ edit ]
Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia – 2004, by John Thorn et al.
World Sports Encyclopedia – 2003, Atena/MBI

Other [ edit ]
Atlas of the Prehistoric World
Above and Beyond: The Encyclopedia of Aviation and Space Sciences
Christie's World Encyclopedia of Champagne & Sparkling Wine
Encyclopedia of Cybernetics
Encyclopedia of Marxism – online encyclopedia released under the GNU Free Documentation License, part of the Marxist Internet Archive.
The Grocer's Encyclopedia
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft
Larousse Gastronomique – encyclopedia of food and cooking
A Military Encyclopedia
Mining Encyclopedia
MusicBrainz – project to create a free music encyclopedia, released under the Open Content License; the first goal is to create a database similar to CDDB
The Oxford Companion to Wine
Perelman's Pocket Cyclopedia of Cigars – encyclopedia and history of (Non-Cuban) cigars and their manufacturers (also Perelman's Pocket Cyclopaedia of
Havana Cigars)
The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia

See also [ edit ]

List of encyclopedias by language (English)

List of historical encyclopedias
List of online encyclopedias
Lists of encyclopedias

References [ edit ]

1. ^ "Home, Encyclopedia of Ukraine" . Encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 31 December 2016.

2. ^ "Енциклопедія Сучасної України" . Esu.com.ua. Retrieved 31 December 2016.

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