This is a list of notable online encyclopedias which are accessible on the World Wide Web. [edit] General reference | Site | Language | Description | Access | | Archimedes-lab.org | English | Edutainment | Free | | Baidu Baike | Chinese | Collaborative online encyclopedia hosted by the major Chinese search engine Baidu | Free | | Banglapedia | Bangla, English | General interest | Free | | The Canadian Encyclopedia | English | General Interest (original content of the hard copy Canadian Encyclopedia) | Free | | Chinese Encyclopedia | Chinese | General interest | Free | | Citizendium | English | Wiki-based free encyclopedia project spearheaded by Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia | Free | | Columbia Encyclopedia | English | General interest | Free | | Compton's Encyclopedia | English | General interest | Free | | Conservapedia | English | Semi-open wiki written from politically far right-wing and Biblical literalist perspectives. | Free | | Credo Reference | English | General interest and subject-specific encyclopedias | Subscription | | Crnogorska Enciklopedija | Montenegrin | General interest (hopes to encourage a Montenegrin language Wikipedia) | Free | | Den Store Danske Encyklopædi | Danish | General interest | Free | | Deu Sözlük | Turkish | General interest | Free | | Digital Universe | English | Collection of articles on educational, cultural, and scientific topics | Free | | Diplopedia | English | US State Department internal encyclopedic wiki, available for diplomats and overseas US agents to use | Access only through the State Department | | Doosan Encyclopedia | Korean | General | Free | | Ekşi Sözlük | Turkish | General interest | Free | | Encarta | English | General interest | Limited free access and features, subscription for full access | | Encyclopædia Britannica | English | General interest | Limited free access and features, subscription for full access | | Encyclopedia of China | Chinese | General interest | Subscription | | Encyklopedia Internautica | Polish | General interest | Free | | Enciclopedia Libre | Spanish | Fork of the Spanish Wikipedia, using wiki software, released under the GFDL | Free | | Encyclopædia Universalis | French | General interest encyclopedia published by Encyclopedia Britanica | Subscription | | Everything2 | English | General interest, users can submit articles on the topic of essentially anything | Free | | FAQ | English | A collection of searchable FAQs | Free | | Gale Virtual Reference Library | English | Database for search of source material of an academic nature | Subscription | | GNUPedia | English | General interest articles are released under a GNU license | Free | | Grand Larousse encyclopédique | French | General interest | Free | | Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia | English | Targeted at the younger researcher, it contains the text of the American Academic Encyclopedia | Subscription | | Holocaust Encyclopedia | English, Arabic, Farsi, French, Spanish | Holocaust related articles | Free | | Hudong | Chinese | General interest. China's largest wiki | Free | | Hutchinson Encyclopedia | English | General interest | Free | | Infoplease | English | General interest | Free | | Internetowa encyklopedia PWN | Polish | General interest | Free | | Interpedia | English | General interest, the first site to propose a free encyclopedia written by users. Now defunct. | No longer exists | | Kalb Encyclopedia | Esperanto | General interest. The first online Esperanto encyclopedia | Free | | Kdo byl kdo | Czech | Biographies on notable Czech and Slovak people | Free | | Keyinpedia | Chinese | General interest | Free | | Knol | English | General interest | Free | | Kussmaul Encyclopedia | English | General interest with emphasis on science and the arts. First commercial online encyclopedia (1981-93). | Subscription | | Marefa | Arabic | General interest | Free | | Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 4. ed. 1888 - 1892 | German | General interest | Free | | Nationalencyklopedin | Swedish | General interest, the most comprehensive contemporary Swedish language encyclopedia | Subscription | | New World Encyclopedia | English | General interest | Free | | Nupedia | English | Combined with GNUpedia | Free | | Open Site | English | Categorized community-built encyclopedia, inspired by the Open Directory Project | Free | | Private Sözlük | Turkish | Collaborative hypertext Turkish dictionary and encyclopedia site that shares a similar concept with Everything2 or H2G2 | Free | | Probert Encyclopaedia | English | General interest | Free | | Quid | French | General interest | Free | | Scholarpedia | English | Articles are written by scholars and peer-reviewed for accuracy | Free | | Store norske leksikon | Norwegian (Bokmål) | General interest | Free | | Susning.nu | Swedish | A Swedish language wiki | Free | | Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam | Vietnamese | General interest. State-sponsored encyclopedia. | Free | | Veropedia | English, Dutch, Spanish | Mirrors stable versions of selected English Wikipedia articles | Free | | Vikidia | French, Spanish | Articles designed for children ages 8-13 | Free | | WIEM Encyklopedia | Polish | General interest | Free | | Wikipedia | See list here | Wiki-based free general interest encyclopedia | Free, Copyleft | | WikiPilipinas | English | Based on the Wikipedia model, from the Philippines point-of-view | Free | | WikiZnanie | Russian | Russian language wiki | Free | | World Book Encyclopedia | English | General interest | Subscription | [edit] Biography [edit] Classical antiquities, arts, and literature [edit] Culture and country-specific [edit] Pop culture and fiction | Site | Language | Description | Access | | Battlestar Wiki | English, Simple English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Malay, French, Chinese | Battlestar Galactica-related articles | Free | | Don Markstein's Toonopedia | English | Focuses on articles pertaining to print and animated cartoons | Free | | H2G2 | English | Collection of sometimes humorous encyclopedia articles, based on Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. | Free | | Heroes Wiki | English, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | Contains articles pertaining to the American television drama Heroes. | Free | | Lambiek | English, Dutch | Articles on comic strips and comic artists | Free | | Lostpedia | English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese | Contains articles pertaining to the hit drama Lost | Free | | Memory Alpha | English, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Swedish | Articles about Star Trek | Free | | Project Galactic Guide | English | Inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Free | | The Rocklopedia Fakebandica | English | Articles on fake bands from popular entertainment | Free | | TvTropes | English, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Frrench, Norsk, Suomi, Svenska, Al Bhed, Quenya | Articles related to the devices and conventions that a fiction writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations | Free | | Wookieepedia | English, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Chinese | Star Wars related articles | Free | | WoWWiki | English, German, Spanish, French, Czech, Danish, Greek, Persian, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Korean, Japanese, Chinese | World of Warcraft related articles | Free | [edit] Mathematics | Site | Language | Description | Access | | Cut-the-knot | English | Mathematics related topics | Free | | Encyclopaedia of Mathematics | English | Encompasses articles on the topic of mathematics | Free | | EqWorld | English, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish | Articles on mathematical equations | Free | | MathWorld | English | Articles on a wide variety of math related topics | Free | | On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences | English | Encyclopedia of number sequences (what is next term after 1,2,4,9,20,48,115, ..., say?) | Free | | PlanetMath | English | Math related topics and articles | Free/GNU | | The QED Project | English | A project to establish a "distributed, computerized repository that rigorously represents all important, established mathematical knowledge." | Free | [edit] Philosophy [edit] Politics and history [edit] Religion and theology [edit] Science
[edit] Biology-Life science | Site | Language | Description | Access | | Animal Diversity Web | English | Student wiki-type database at the University of Michigan of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology. | Free | | ARKive | English | Visual and audio recordings of the world's species | Free | | Encyclopedia of Life | English, French | Seeks to categorize all 1.8 million known species on the planet | Free | | Encyclopedia of Life Sciences | English | Biology related articles | Subscription | | Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems | English | Articles about the natural and social sciences | Subscription | | Erowid | English | Information about psychoactives substances | Free | | FishBase | English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Chinese (Simplified Han), Chinese (Traditional Han), Bahasa Malay, Indonesian, Greek, Swedish, Russian, Farsi, Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Hindi, Bangla | Articles on fish species | Free | | Flora Europaea | English | Covers different plant species | Free | | Macroscopic Observatory | English | Covers Flora and Fauna | Free | | MicrobeWiki | English | Covers microbes | Free | | Palaeos | English | Covers palaeontology | Free | | Wikispecies | English | Seeks to create a catalogue of all living things | Free | [edit] Medicine and surgery A list of 69 online medical wiki encyclopedias has been created by David Rothman.[2] [edit] See also [edit] References [edit] External links |
