List of encyclopedias

This is a list of encyclopedias, including projects to create new works.

General

• The Americana: published by Scientific American in the early 1900s.
• Columbia Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Columbia University Press[?].
• Enciclopedia Libre : a project to create a Spanish encyclopedia using wiki software. Released under the the GNU Free Documentation License.
• Encyclopædia Britannica: one of the best-known encyclopedias in the English language. See also the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
• 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.
• Microsoft Encarta: published by Microsoft. It is only available in electronic form.
• Nupedia: a peer reviewed, open content encyclopedia project, currently inactive.
• netcyclo: John Anderson's Internet encyclopedia project.
• Open Site: an effort inspired by, but not officially affliated with, the Open Directory Project.
• The Oracle Encyclopædia: a five volume encyclopedia published in 1895.
• Pears Cyclopaedia: a one volume encylopaedia published annually in the United Kingdom.
• Probert Encyclopaedia: an online topical encyclopedia consisting of almost 100,000 short entries, published by Mathew Probert and based in the United Kingdom.
• Wikipedia: a project to create a comprehensive encyclopedia using wiki software, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
• World Book: designed for family use, World Book claims to be the world's best selling print encyclopedia.

Specialized

• Catholic Encyclopedia[?] (cf. Talk:List of encyclopedias).
• The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants[?]: a comprehensive illustrated work on garden plants.
• Encyclopedia Astronautica: an reference website maintained by space travel enthusiast Mark Wade.
• An Encyclopedia of Battles[?]: comprehensive accounting of battles and wars throughout history.
• Encyclopedia Judaica[?]: published 1972-1991.
• Encyclopedia of Marxism: an online encyclopedia released under the GNU Free Documentation License, part of the Marxist Internet Archive[?].
• Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits: a memeware reference hypertext with a materialist and futurist perspective.
• Jewish Encyclopedia: published 1901-1906. Original full 12 volumes.
• Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology[?]
• Larousse Gastronomique Encylopedia 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 similiar 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).
• Talmudic Encyclopedia[?] (cf. Talk:List of encyclopedias).

See also: List of digital library projects