List of encyclopedias

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encyclopedias, including projects to create new works.

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General

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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
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
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
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

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

Encyclopædia Britannica. See also the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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

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Website only

BambooWeb: 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 BambooWeb, 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

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Specialized

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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)

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Jewish Encyclopedias

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

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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
battles and wars throughout history.
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
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).
garden plants.
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
The Star Trek Encyclopedia
The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia, 2004, by John Thorn et al
List of digital library projects


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