List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge

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 information on either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge." For other sorting standards, see List of encyclopedias.

General knowledge

Catalan

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

Chinese

• Encyclopedia of China
• Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China – Chinese language encyclopedia completed in 1725 (10 million Chinese characters)
• Yongle Encyclopedia – once contained 11,095 volumes and around 370 million Chinese characters but now contains less than 400 volumes

Czech

• Riegrův slovník naučný – first Czech encyclopedia published in 1860–1874 with 11 volumes, supplement vol. in 1890, online)
• Otto's encyclopedia – largest Czech-language encyclopedia published between 1888 and 1908 (28 vols) and 1930–1943 (12 vols, incomplete). Volumes 1–28 online
• Příruční slovník naučný – first post-war encyclopedia. With strong communist ideology. Four volumes, 1962–1967.
• Malá československá encklopedie – Small Czechoslovak encyclopedia, it was supposed to be forerunner to Great Czechoslovak encyclopedia that was never published, 6 volumes, 1984–1987.
• Diderot (8 volumes, 1999–2000)
• Universum (10 volumes, 1999–2001)
• Czech Wikipedia (2002–)

Danish

• Den Store Danske Encyklopædi

Dutch

• 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

• 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
• The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge (1891)
• 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
• 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

French

• Découvertes Gallimard – illustrated encyclopaedia in pocket format, 588 volumes plus 150⁺ volumes of spin-offs, published 1986–present
• Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers – contributed by the Encyclopédistes, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, published 1751–1772

German

• Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste – very large, unfinished 19th-century encyclopaedia by Ersch and Gruber in 167 volumes
• Brockhaus Enzyklopädie – best-known encyclopedia in German, online-only since 2014
• Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon – huge 18th-century encyclopedia by Johann Heinrich Zedler
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
• Oeconomische Encyclopädie – Started by Johann Georg Krünitz in 1773 and finished 1858 in 242 volumes

Italian

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

Latin

• Lexicon Universale – published in 1698

Persian

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

Polish

• 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

Portuguese

• Infopédia [pt] – since 2003
• Barsa – since 1964
• Diciopédia [pt] – 1997–2009
• Enciclopédia Verbo Luso-Brasileira de Cultura – Edição Século XXI [pt] (Verbo Luso-Brazilian Encyclopædia of Culture – 21st-Century Edition) – 1998–2009
• Grande Enciclopédia Portuguesa e Brasileira (Grand Portuguese and Brazilian Encyclopædia) – 1936–1999
• Grande Enciclopédia Larousse Cultural [pt] (Grand Cultural Encyclopædia Larousse) – 1998
• Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira de Cultura [pt] (Luso-Brazilian Encyclopædia of Culture) – 1963–1995
• Lello Universal – Dicionário Enciclopédico Luso-Brasileiro (Lello Universal – Luso-Brazilian Encyclopædic Dictionary)
• Conhecer (To Know) – 1966–1981, adapted from Knowledge
• Enciclopédia Mirador Internacional [pt] (International Mirador Encyclopædia) – 1976
• Enciclopédia Infantil Verbo [pt] ( Verbo Children's Encyclopædia) – 1976
• Grande Enciclopédia Delta Larousse (Delta Larousse Grand Emcyclopædia) – 1970, adapted from the Grand Larousse encyclopédique
• Focus – Enciclopédia Internacional (Focus – International Encyclopædia) – 1964
• Enciclopédia Delta Larousse (Delta Larousse Encyclopædia) – 1960, adapted from the Encyclopédie Larousse méthodique
• Trópico – Enciclopédia Ilustrada em Cores [pt] (Trópico – Colour Illustrated Encyclopædia) – 1957
• Enciclopédia Brasileira Globo [pt] (Globo Brazilian Encyclopædia) – 1943
• Tesouro da Juventude (Youth's Thesaurus) – 1920, adapted from The Children's Encyclopædia

Russian

• 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)

Slovak

• Slovenský náučný slovník. 3 volumes 1932. First general encyclopedia in Slovak language.
• Pyramída. Published between 1971 and 1990 in journal form (224 issues).
• Malá slovenská encyklopédia. 1 volume 1993
• Encyclopaedia Beliana. 20 planned volumes, 1999–, 9 volumes published as of 2021
• Všeobecný encyklopedický slovník. 2002, four volumes
• Slovak Wikipedia. 2003–
• Univerzum – všeobecná obrazová encyklopédia A – Ž. 1 volume, 2011

Slovenian

• Enciklopedija Slovenije

Spanish

• 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

• 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

• Anabritannica – published in Turkey and based on the Britannica Micropædia

Ukrainian

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

Multiple languages

• Microsoft Encarta – computer-based encyclopedia published by Microsoft, now discontinued
• Wikipedia – world's largest free encyclopedia; a project to create a comprehensive encyclopedia using wiki software

Specialized encyclopedias

National, regional, ethnic or cultural

Australia

• Australian Encyclopaedia (1925, 1958, 1977, 1983, 1988, 1996)

Austria

• aeiou Encyclopedia (1996ff.)

Bangladesh

• Banglapedia – 10 volumes published in 2003; bilingual; English and Bengali

Brazil

• Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak [pt] – 2020
• Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural de Arte e Cultura Brasileiras [pt] – 2001
• História Geral da Civilização Brasileira [pt] – 1960–2010
• Saga - A Grande História do Brasil [pt] – 1981
• Enciclopédia dos Municípios Piauienses [pt] – 1972
• Grandes Personagens da Nossa História [pt] – 1969
• Enciclopédia dos Municípios Brasileiros [pt] – 1957

Canada

• The Canadian Encyclopedia (1985 and 1988)

Croatia

• Hrvatska opća enciklopedija (started in 1999 – 7th vol. 2005 of 11)

Ethiopia

• Encyclopaedia Aethiopica – basic reference work for Ethiopian and Eritrean studies

Germany

• Deutsche Biographie (Biographical dictionary of Germans)

Iceland

• Icelandic Encyclopedia A–Ö

Iran

• 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

• Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Biographical dictionary of Italians) – Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Malaysia

• The Encyclopedia of Malaysia – published from 1998 to 2007

Morocco

• Maelimat al-maghrib (Arabic: معلمة المغرب) – published between 1989 and 2006 totaling 27 volumes.

New Zealand

• The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (1897–1908) – 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

• Encyklopedia Polski (Encyclopedia of Poland) – 2005, 10 volumes

Portugal

• Grande Dicionário Enciclopédico da Madeira [pt] (Grand Encyclopædic Dictionary of Madeira) – since 2016
• Enciclopédia Açoriana [pt] (Azorean Encyclopædia) – since 2008
• Elucidário Madeirense [pt] (Madeiran Glossary) – 1921–1940

Slovakia

• Encyklopédia Slovenska. (Encyclopedia of Slovakia) 6 volumes, 1977–1982.

Slovenia

• Enciklopedija Slovenije – published in 1987–2002

Sweden

• Nordisk familjebok – encyclopedia in Swedish

Ukraine

• 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

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

United States

See also: List of online state encyclopedias

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

Yugoslavia

• Enciklopedija Jugoslavije
• Opća enciklopedija JLZ (1977–82)

Field

Art and architecture

• Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World – in 3 volumes (1997)
• Grove Dictionary of Art – in 34 volumes (1996)

Entertainment

• 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

• 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

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

Fiction

• The Rocklopedia Fakebandica – by T. Mike Childs, published in 2004
• The Star Trek Encyclopedia
• TV Tropes

History and biography

• 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
• Grandes Personagens da Nossa História [pt] (Great Figures of our History) – Brazilian encyclopædia published in 1969
• Grandes Personagens da História Universal [pt] (Great Figures of World History) – Brazilian encyclopædia published in 1970
• Lexikon des Mittelalters – German encyclopedia of medieval history, published in 1980
• Oxford Classical Dictionary – despite the name, a one-volume encyclopedia for antiquity

Law

• 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

• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law

Library and Information Science

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences

Literature

• 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
• Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature
• 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
• Cyrillo-Methodian Encyclopedia of the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1985 to 2003.
• Kindlers Literature Encyclopedia – German encyclopedia about world literature. Online-only since 2009.
• Killy Literaturlexikon – German encyclopedia of German authors. Second edition in 12 volumes from 2008 to 2011.

Mathematics

• 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

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

• 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
• Músicos do Brasil: Uma Enciclopédia Instrumental [pt] (Musicians of Brazil: an Instrumental Encyclopædia)

Nautical

• Bibliography of encyclopedias#Nautical dictionaries and encyclopædias

Philosophy

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy – edited by Paul Edwards
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy – online encyclopedia
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – online encyclopedia

Religion

Christianity

• Agiologio Lusitano [pt] – 17th-century (1652–1744) Portuguese encyclopædia on hagiography and ecclesiastical matters
• The Catholic Encyclopedia – 1907–1912 (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) – ed. Gerhard Müller. 38 vls.; Berlin 1977–2007
• Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism – Hawthorn Books. 150 vls.; New York City 1958–1971

Islam

• Encyclopaedia Islamica
• Encyclopaedia of Imam Ali
• Encyclopaedia of Islam
• Encyclopaedia of Shia
• The Hussaini Encyclopedia
• Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam
• Islami Bishwakosh

Judaism

• Encyclopaedia Judaica – published 1972–91, second edition 2006
• Jewish Encyclopedia – published 1901–06; original full 12 volumes
• Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian – 11 volumes, published 1976–2005 in Jerusalem
• Talmudic Encyclopedia
• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe – Yale University Press, 2008

Hinduism

• Encyclopedia of Hinduism – published 2012

Science

• 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; both a 20-volume print edition and an online edition
• The Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology – also available in a one-volume edition
• The New Encyclopedia of Snakes
• Larousse Encyclopædia of Animal Life [pt]

Engineering

Chemical Engineering

• Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry – currently in its 7th edition; first edition in German available in the public domain.

Social sciences

• 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

• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics – 2nd Edition (2008)

Sports

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

Other

• 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
• Pequena Enciclopédia de Moral e Civismo [pt] (Little Encyclopædia of Morality and Civism) – Brazilian state-sponsored school encyclopædia during the military dictatorship
• Encyclopedia Recipica – Encyclopedia of Recipe

See also

• List of encyclopedias by language (English)
• List of historical encyclopedias
• List of online encyclopedias
• Lists of encyclopedias

References

1. "Home, Encyclopedia of Ukraine". Encyclopediaofukraine.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
2. "Енциклопедія Сучасної України". Esu.com.ua. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2016.