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List of encyclopedias
This article lists encyclopedias, including projects to create new works.
General
Printed works
- Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste: very large 19th-century German encyclopaedia by Ersch and Gruber.
- The Americana: published by Scientific American in the early 1900s.
- Brockhaus: German encyclopedia
- The Children's Encyclopedia, by Arthur Mee.
- Collier's Encyclopedia
- Columbia Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Columbia University Press .
- Compton's Encyclopedia: 26 volume 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.
- A Military Encyclopedia
- 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
- Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge : 20 volumes of equal length
- Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon: huge 18th-century German encyclopedia by Johann Heinrich Zedler.
- Gujin tushu jicheng: 10,000 volume Chinese encyclopedia completed in 1725
- Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History From 458 to 1905: Harper & Brothers
- 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.
- 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
- Gran Enciclopedia Planeta in Spanish
- Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana, in Spanish. Also known as Encicplopedia Espasa o Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe
- Enciclopedia Salvat in Spanish
- Enciclopedia Labor in Spanish
- Enciclopedia Libre Universal también conocidoa como Enciclopedia Libre in Spanish
- Enciclopedia Encarta in Spanish
- Diccionario Enciclopédico Espasa in Spanish
- Nueva enciclopedia Durvan in Spanish
- Enciklopedija Slovenije in Slovenian language
On CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and/or a website
Website only
Specialized
Canadian Encyclopedias
Iranian Encyclopedias
Jewish Encyclopedias
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
- American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia
- Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography: 19th century Americans
- , 2004
- Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Children's Encyclopedia of American History
- The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft : 1997, one large volume
- Donna Kooler's Encyclopedia of Crochet
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- Encyclopedia Astronautica: an reference website maintained by space-travel enthusiast Mark Wade.
- An Encyclopedia of Battles : comprehensive accounting of battles and wars throughout history.
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- 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
- An Encyclopaedia of Occultism: 1920 work on occultism
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, First edition 1979, second edition (April 1993), by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
- The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions
- An Encyclopedia of World History : a one-volume work from 1940
- 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.
- Encyclopedia Titanica [1]; Exhaustive information about the sinking of RMS Titanic
- The Film Encyclopedia
- The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
- The Literary Encyclopedia, online, started in 2000
- The London Encyclopaedia 1007 page reference of the city of London, pub. 1983
- The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
- 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.
- Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft: Pauly-Wissowa (Eds.) (1894-1980; specialising in classical antiquity).
- The Rocklopedia Fakebandica by T. Mike Childs, pub. 2004
- , 2004, by David Neft et al
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ongoing since 1995)
- The Star Trek Encyclopedia
- Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand - online
- Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia , 2004, by John Thorn et al
- Total Tennis, The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia , 2003, by Bud Collins
- The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
See also: List of digital library projects
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