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This is a list of encyclopedias sorted by branch of knowledge. For other sorting criteria, see List of encyclopedias.

Contents

General encyclopedia

Printed works

English language

Spanish language

  • Diccionario Enciclopédico Espasa
  • Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Americano de Literatura, Ciencias y Artes: Barcelona, Montaner y Simón,1887-1899, reprints and appendices up to 1910. Wonderful and very readable articles, many of them written by known Spanish scholars of the day. Reprinted by the London editor Walter M. Jackson (C. H. Simonds Company, Impresores, Boston, Estados Unidos de Norte América). See reference at http://www.filosofia.org/enc/eha/eha.htm
  • Enciclopedia Encarta
  • Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana; the biggest encyclopedia of its time. Also known as Enciclopedia Espasa o Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe
  • Enciclopedia Labor
  • Enciclopedia Libre Universal also known as Enciclopedia Libre
  • Enciclopedia Salvat
  • Gran enciclopedia planeta, 20 volumes, DVD and on-line encyclopedia, 2004. Geared for adults, and published by the same people who publish the Encyclopedia Britannica.
  • Britannica Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada, 20 volumes; heavily illustrated. Also published by the Encyclopedia Britannica, but designed for students 10–17 years of age.
  • Nueva enciclopedia Durvan
  • Nueva enciclopedia cumbre, published by Grolier in 14 volumes and available online.

Other languages

On CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and/or the Internet

Website only

Specialized encyclopedias

National, regional, ethnic or cultural

African

  • Encyclopedia Zimbabwe

American

Australian

  • The Australian Encyclopedia (1926) - 1926
  • The Australian Encyclopedia (1958) - 1958
  • Encyclopaedia of Australia - 1968
  • Encyclopedia of Melbourne Sept 2005. Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain. 864 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-84234-1 - Online version

Austrian

Belarusian

  • Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia in 12 volumes (1969-1974)
  • Encyclopedia of Literature and Art of Belarus in 5 volumes
  • Encyclopedia of Ethnography of Belarus in 1 volume
  • Encyclopedia of History of Belarus in 6 volumes
  • Belarusian Encyclopedia in 18 volumes
  • Encyclopedia of Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1 volume so far

Canadian

  • Canada: An Encyclopedia of the Country - (1898-1900)
  • Canada and its Province - (1913-1917)
  • The Canadian Encyclopedia - (1985 and 1988)
  • Encyclopedia Canadiana - (1957)
  • The Encyclopedia of Canada - (1935-1937)
  • Encyclopedia of Music in Canada - (1981 and 1992)
  • The Junior Encyclopedia of Canada - (1989)

China

  • Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, 2009, 5 vls.

Croatian

India

  • Encyclopedia of Indian heritage and culture, ed. by Devendra Mishra, New Delhi : Shree Publ. & Distributors, 2008-
  • Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies

Iranian

London

Malaysian

New Zealand

Pakistan

  • Encyclopedia of Pakistan, published in 2006 by Oxford University Press

Poland

Slovenian

South Asian

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives: A concise encyclopedia on the Indian subcontinent.
  • Banglapedia: The national encyclopedia of Bangladesh published by the Bangladesh Asiatic Society.

Subject

Art

Entertainment

Environmental Science

Fiction (or fictional)

Film

  • International dictionary of films and filmmakers, ed. by Tom Pendergast, 4 vls., Detroit [etc.]: St. James Press, 4th ed. 2000
  • Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, ed. by Ian Aitken, New York, NY [etc.]: Routledge, 2006

History and biography

Law

International and comparative law

Literature

Mathematics

Medicine

For further examples, see Category:Encyclopedias on medicine

Music

Philosophy

Psychoanalysis

  • International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, ed. by Alain de Mijolla, 3 vls, Detroit [etc.]: Thomson/Gale, 2005 (MacMillan Reference Books)
  • The Edinburgh international encyclopaedia of psychoanalysis, ed. by Ross M. Skelton, Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2006

Religion

General
  • Encyclopedia of religion, 15 vls., ed. by Lindsay Jones, Detroit [etc.]: Macmillan Reference USA, 2nd edition 2005
Buddhism
  • Encyclopedia of Buddhism, ed.by Damien Keown and Charles S. Prebish, London [etc.]: Routledge 2009, ISBN 0415556244
Christianity
  • The Catholic Encyclopedia. 1907–1912 (15 vls.)
  • New Catholic encyclopedia. 1967–1996 (15 vls. and 4 supplementary vls.). 2. ed. 2003 (15 vls.)
  • Encyclopédie des sciences ecclésiastiques
  • Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 1. ed. 1909–1913 (5 vls.), 4th ed. 1998–2005
  • Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon: internationale theologische Enzyklopädie. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 1956–1961 (3 vls.). – 2nd ed. 1961–1962. – 3rd ed. 1986–1997 (5 vls.)
  • Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche. 1930–1938 (10 vls.)
  • Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE) Hrsg. Gerhard Müller. 38 vls.. Berlin 1977–2007.
  • Encyclopædia Biblica
  • Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Islam
  • Encyclopaedia of Islam
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, ed. by John L. Esposito, Oxford UP, New edition 2009
  • The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture, ed. by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, Oxford UP 2009
  • Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, ed. by Suad Joseph, Brill Academic Publishers, 2007
Judaism
  • Encyclopedia Judaica: published 1972-1991, second edition 2006-
  • Jewish Encyclopedia: published 1901-1906. Original full 12 volumes.
  • Talmudic Encyclopedia (cf. Talk:List of encyclopedias).
  • Jewish Virtual Library
  • Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian: 11 volumes, published 1976-2005 in Jerusalem and on the Web.
  • The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day, hrg. von Cyrus Adler und Isidore Singer, 12 Bände, New York; London: Funk and Wagnalis, 1901–1906, auch online
  • The universal Jewish encyclopedia: an authoritative and popular presentation of Jews and Judaism since the earliest times, ed. by Isaac Landman, 10 vls., New York, NY: Univ. Jewish Encyclopedia Co., 1948
  • Jüdisches Lexikon. Ein enzyklopädisches Handbuch des jüdischen Wissens, Begründet von Georg Herlitz und Bruno Kirschner, 5 vls., Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag, 1992
  • Encyclopedia of modern Jewish culture, ed. by Glenda Abramson, London [etc.]: Routledge, 2005
  • The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Yale UP, 2008

Science

Social Sciences

  • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. by William A. Darity, Detroit [etc.]: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008

Sports

  • The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball, 10th Edition, 1996 ISBN 0-02-861435-6
  • Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia, 2004, by John Thorn et al.
  • Total Tennis, The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia, 2003, by Bud Collins
  • The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
  • The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2004, 2004, by David Neft et al.
  • L'Encyclopédie des sports. Plus de 3000 sports et jeux du monde entier, 2005, Grund
  • World Sports Encyclopedia, 2003, Atena/MBI

Technology

  • The Internet Encyclopedia, 2003, Wiley

Other

References

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See also








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