List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge

General knowledge

Catalan

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

  Chinese

• Encyclopedia of China
• Gujin tushu jicheng – Chinese language encyclopedia completed in 1725
• ''Yongle Encyclopedia – once contained 11,095 volumes and around 370 million characters but now contains less than 400 volumes

  Czech

• Otto's encyclopedia – largest Czech-language encyclopedia published between 1888–1908 and 1930–43

  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
• 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
• Microsoft Encarta – computer-based encyclopedia published by Microsoft, now discontinued
• 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 19th-century encyclopaedia by Ersch and Gruber
• Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
• Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon – huge 18th-century encyclopedia by Johann Heinrich Zedler
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon

  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 ابن سینا in 1027
• The Persian Encyclopedia – 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

  Russian

• Brockhaus and Efron – imperial encyclopedia in 86 volumes
• Great Soviet Encyclopedia – 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

  Slovenian

• Enciklopedija Slovenije

  Spanish

• Enciclopedia Libre Universal – 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
• Ekşi Sözlük – collaborative hypertext Turkish dictionary and encyclopedia site that has a similar concept with Everything2 or H2G2

  Ukrainian

• Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia – encyclopedia in Ukrainian; its first edition was 17 volumes

  Multiple languages

• 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

  Austria

• aeiou Encyclopedia

  Bangladesh

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

  Canada

• The Canadian Encyclopedia

  Croatia

• Hrvatska opća enciklopedija

  Ethiopia

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

  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 – Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

  Malaysia

• The Encyclopedia of Malaysia – published from 1998 to 2007

  Morocco

• Maelimat Almaghrib - Published between 1989 and 2006 totaling 27 volumes.

  New Zealand

• The Cyclopedia of New Zealand – unofficial; most subjects paid to have their articles appear; online at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
• An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand – official
• – official, incorporating the full text of An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

  Poland

• Encyklopedia Polski – 2005, 10 volumes

  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
• Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine – multi-volume comprehensive encyclopedia about Ukraine from the 20th and 21st centuries

  United Kingdom

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

  United States of America

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

  Yugoslavia

• Enciklopedija Jugoslavije
• Opća enciklopedija JLZ

  Field

Art and architecture

• Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World – in 3 volumes
• Grove Dictionary of Art – in 34 volumes

  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 – electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society
• Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems – 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

  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
• 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

  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
• Literary Encyclopedia – 11 volumes, 1929–39
• 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.

  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 – 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
• planetmath

  Medicine

• Kitab al-Tasrif – by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
• 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

  Nautical

• List of nautical dictionaries

  Philosophy

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

  Religion

Christianity

• The Catholic Encyclopedia – 1907–12
• Encyclopædia Biblica
• Encyclopedia of Christianity – John Stephen Bowden, ed., 1 vol., Oxford UP, 2006
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism
• Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche – 1930–38
• New Catholic encyclopedia – 1967–96 ; 2. ed. 2003
• Theologische Realenzyklopädie – Hrsg. Gerhard Müller. 38 vls.; Berlin 1977–2007

  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
• Jewish Virtual Library
• 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

  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 – owned by John Wiley & Sons; has both a 20-volume print edition and an online edition
• The Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology – also comes in a one-volume edition
• The New Encyclopedia of Snakes

  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 ; Macmillan, 1968
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences – edited by William A. Darity, Jr., Detroit ; Macmillan Reference USA, 2008

  Economics

• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics – 2nd Edition

  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
• 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 cigars and their manufacturers
• The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia