List of online encyclopedias
Encyclopedia
General reference
| Site | Language | Description | Access |
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| Archimedes-lab.org Archimedes-lab.org Archimedes-lab.org is a free and collaborative edutainment website developed and maintained by Gianni A. Sarcone and Marie-Jo Waeber, two authors and writers with more than twenty years of experience in the fields of visual thinking and education... |
English | Edutainment Edutainment Edutainment is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse.-Overview:... |
Free |
| Baidu Baike Baidu Baike Baidu Encyclopedia is a Chinese language collaborative Web-based encyclopedia provided by the Chinese search engine Baidu. Like Baidu itself, the encyclopedia is heavily self-censored in line with government regulations.... |
Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... |
Collaborative online encyclopedia hosted by the major Chinese search engine Baidu Baidu Baidu, Inc. , simply known as Baidu and incorporated on January 18, 2000, is a Chinese web services company headquartered in the Baidu Campus in Haidian District, Beijing, People's Republic of China.... |
Free |
| Banglapedia Banglapedia Banglapedia, or the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, is the first Bangladeshi encyclopedia. It is available in print, CD-ROM format and online, in both Bangla and English. The print version comprises ten 500-page volumes... |
Bangla, English | General interest | Free |
| The Canadian Encyclopedia The Canadian Encyclopedia The Canadian Encyclopedia is a source of information on Canada. It is available online, at no cost. The Canadian Encyclopedia is available in both English and French and includes some 14,000 articles in each language on a wide variety of subjects including history, popular culture, events, people,... |
English, French | General interest (original content of the hard copy Canadian Encyclopedia) | Free |
| Citizendium Citizendium Citizendium is an English-language wiki-based free encyclopedia project launched by Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001.... |
English | General interest, wiki | Free |
| Columbia Encyclopedia Columbia Encyclopedia The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia produced by Columbia University Press and sold by the Gale Group. First published in 1935, and continuing its important relationship with Columbia University, the encyclopedia underwent major revisions in 1950 and 1963; the current edition is... |
English | General interest | Free |
| Compton's Encyclopedia Compton's Encyclopedia Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-Index is a home and school encyclopedia first published in 1922 as "Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia". The word "Pictured" was removed from the title with the 1968 edition. The encyclopedia is now advertised as Compton's by Britannica.Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia... |
English | General interest | Free |
| Conservapedia Conservapedia Conservapedia is an English-language wiki project written from a self-described American conservative Christian point of view. The website considers itself to be a supporter of "conservative, family-friendly" content... |
English | Semi-open wiki written from politically extreme far right-wing and Biblical literalist perspectives | Free |
| Credo Reference | English | General interest and subject-specific encyclopedias | Subscription |
| Crnogorska Enciklopedija Crnogorska Enciklopedija Crnogorska Enciklopedija was an internet encyclopedia project written in Montenegrin language, which had existed from 2006 to 2008. It was started by the IT Association of Montenegro in 2006 as an experimental project. Its goal is to provide a base for a future Montenegrin Wikipedia... |
Montenegrin Montenegrin language Montenegrin is a name used for the Serbo-Croatian language as spoken by Montenegrins; it also refers to an incipient standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian used as the official language of Montenegro... |
General interest (hopes to encourage a Montenegrin language Wikipedia) | Defunct |
| Den Store Danske Encyklopædi Den Store Danske Encyklopædi Den Store Danske Encyklopædi is the most comprehensive contemporary Danish language encyclopedia. The 20 volumes of the encyclopedia were published successively between 1994 and 2001; a one-volume supplement was published in 2002 and two index volumes in 2003... |
Danish Danish language Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language... |
General interest | Free |
| Deu Sözlük Deu sozluk Deu Sözlük is a collaborative hypertext Turkish dictionary and encyclopedia site that shares a similar concept with Everything2 or H2G2. Its aim is to build a community of contributors who believe that to share knowledge is to share life. The web site was created by two students of Dokuz Eylül... |
Turkish Turkish language Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,... |
General interest | Free |
| Digital Universe Digital Universe Digital Universe is a free online information service founded in 2006. The project aims to create a "network of portals designed to provide high-quality information and services to the public"... |
English | Collection of articles on educational, cultural, and scientific topics | Free |
| Diplopedia Diplopedia Diplopedia, billed as the Encyclopedia of the United States Department of State, is a wiki running on a State internal Intranet, called "OpenNet". It houses a unique collection of information pertaining to diplomacy, international relations, and Department of State tradecraft.The wiki may be used... |
English | US State Department internal encyclopedic wiki, available for diplomats and overseas US agents to use | Access only through the State Department |
| Doosan Encyclopedia Doosan Encyclopedia Doosan Encyclopedia is a Korean language encyclopedia published by Doosan Donga . The encyclopedia is based on the Dong-A Color Encyclopedia , which comprises 30 volumes and began to be published in 1982 by Dong-A Publishing... |
Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing... |
General interest | Free |
| EcuRed EcuRed EcuRed is an online encyclopedia from Cuba built on MediaWiki software. Launched on December 13, 2010, the site, which hosts over 55,000 reference articles, biographies and academic works, aims to share Cuba's vision of the world.... |
Spanish | General interest. Cuban | Free |
| Ekşi Sözlük | Turkish | General interest | Free |
| Encarta Encarta Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009. , the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive contents, timelines, maps and... |
English | General interest | Defunct |
| Encyclopædia Britannica Encyclopædia Britannica The Encyclopædia Britannica , published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia that is available in print, as a DVD, and on the Internet. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert... |
English | General interest | Limited free access and features, subscription for full access |
| Encyclopædia Britannica –1911 Edition | English | General interest | Public domain: completely free access from several online sources |
| Encyclopedia of China Encyclopedia of China The Encyclopedia of China is the first large-entry modern encyclopedia in the Chinese language. The compilation began at 1978. Published by the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, the encyclopedia was issued one volume at a time, beginning in 1980 with a volume on astronomy; the final volume... |
Chinese | General interest | Subscription |
| Encyklopedia Internautica Encyklopedia Internautica Encyklopedia Internautica is a Polish Internet encyclopedia based on the Popularna Encyklopedia Powszechna of Pinnex. It is freely accessible on the pages of Interia, Poland's third largest internet portal. As of 2006 the Encyklopedia Internautica had more than 120,000 entries.... |
Polish Polish language Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries... |
General interest | Free |
| Enciclopedia Libre Enciclopedia Libre Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español is a Spanish language wiki encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. It uses the MediaWiki software. It started as a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia.-History:... |
Spanish | Fork of the Spanish Wikipedia, using wiki Wiki A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include... software, released under the GFDL GNU Free Documentation License The GNU Free Documentation License is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation for the GNU Project. It is similar to the GNU General Public License, giving readers the rights to copy, redistribute, and modify a work and requires all copies and... |
Free |
| Enciclopedia Treccani Enciclopedia Italiana The Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti , is an Italian encyclopedia, generally regarded as the most authoritative of that language... |
Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia... |
General interest | Free |
| Encyclopædia Universalis Encyclopædia Universalis The Encyclopædia Universalis is a French-language general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company. The articles of the Encyclopædia Universalis are aimed at educated adult readers, and written by a staff of full-time editors and expert contributors... |
French | General interest encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica | Subscription |
| Everything2 Everything2 Everything2, Everything2, or E2 for short is a collaborative Web-based community consisting of a database of interlinked user-submitted written material. E2 is moderated for quality, but has no formal policy on subject matter... |
English | General interest, users can submit articles on the topic of essentially anything | Free |
| FAQ FAQ Frequently asked questions are listed questions and answers, all supposed to be commonly asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. "FAQ" is usually pronounced as an initialism rather than an acronym, but an acronym form does exist. Since the acronym FAQ originated in textual... |
English | A collection of searchable FAQs | Free |
| GNUPedia GNUpedia GNUPedia was a project to create a free content encyclopedia under the auspices of the Free Software Foundation... |
English | General interest articles are released under a GNU license | Free |
| Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana Great Catalan Encyclopedia The Great Catalan Encyclopedia is a Catalan-language encyclopedia, started by fascicles, and published in 1968 by Edicions 62. The soul of the work was written by Max Cahner, and the first director was Jordi Carbonell i Ballester... |
Catalan | General interest | Free |
| Grand Larousse encyclopédique Grand Larousse encyclopédique The Grand Larousse encyclopédique en dix volumes is a French encyclopedic dictionary published by Larousse, published in volumes between February 1960 and August 1964, with two later supplements.... |
French | General interest | Free |
| Great Soviet Encyclopedia Great Soviet Encyclopedia The Great Soviet Encyclopedia is one of the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedias in Russian and in the world, issued by the Soviet state from 1926 to 1990, and again since 2002 .-Editions:There were three editions... |
Russian, English | General interest, often from the former official Soviet viewpoint. | Free |
| Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia | English | Targeted at the younger researcher, it contains the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia Academic American Encyclopedia Academic American Encyclopedia is a 21-volume general English-language encyclopedia published in 1980. It was first produced by Arête Publishing, the American subsidiary of the Dutch publishing company VNU .... |
Subscription |
| Holocaust Encyclopedia Holocaust Encyclopedia The Holocaust Encyclopedia is an online encyclopedia, published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, offering detailed information about The Holocaust and the events surrounding it.- External links :*... |
English, Arabic, Persian, French, Spanish | Holocaust-related articles | Free |
| Hudong | Chinese | General interest. China's largest wiki | Free |
| Hutchinson Encyclopedia Hutchinson Encyclopedia The Hutchinson Encyclopedia is an English-language general encyclopedia. It is a single volume designed for use in the home, libraries and schools. It attempts to be readable by reducing the use of technical language... |
English | General interest | Free |
| Infoplease | English | General interest | Free |
| Internetowa encyklopedia PWN | Polish Polish language Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries... |
General interest | Free |
| Interpedia Interpedia Interpedia was the name given to the first proposals for an Internet encyclopedia which would allow anyone to contribute by writing articles and submitting them to the central catalog of all Interpedia pages.... |
English | General interest, the first site to propose a free encyclopedia written by users | Defunct |
| Enciklopedio Kalblanda | Esperanto | General interest. The first online Esperanto encyclopedia | Defunct |
| Kdo byl kdo Kdo byl kdo Kdo byl kdo is the name of two major encyclopedic works in Czech, published as books, CD-ROMs and also available online. Their publisher is Libri:* Kdo byl kdo v našich dějinách ve 20... |
Czech Czech language Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century... |
Biographies on notable Czech and Slovak people | Free |
| Keyinpedia Keyinpedia Keyinpedia is an online Chinese encyclopedia based in mainland China. It started operation in February, 2005. By November, 2006, keyinpedia contains 38,112 articles, many of which are the same as Wikipedia.... |
Chinese | General interest | Free |
| Knol Knol Knol is a Google project that aims to include user-written articles on a range of topics. The project was led by Udi Manber of Google, announced December 13, 2007, and was opened in beta to the public on July 23, 2008 with a few hundred articles mostly in the health and medical field.Knol has no... |
English | General interest | Free |
| Kussmaul Encyclopedia Wes Kussmaul Wes Kussmaul, author of several books about online security, is the founder of the Kussmaul Encyclopedia, the first online encyclopedia.In 1971, while stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base , Kussmaul received a degree in physics from the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri... |
English | General interest with emphasis on science and the arts. First commercial online encyclopedia (1981–93). | Subscription |
| Marefa Marefa Marefa is an not-for-profit online encyclopedia project that uses the wiki system to provide a free Arabic encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. It was set up by Nayel Shafei on February 16, 2007... |
Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book... |
General interest | Free |
| Metapedia Metapedia Metapedia is a white nationalist and white supremacist, extreme right-wing and multilingual online encyclopedia. It was officially launched on October 26, 2006 with the Swedish-language edition. The English section was launched on April 28, 2007... |
Hungarian, German, English, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, Estonian, French, Slovenian, Czech, Portuguese, Norwegian, Croatian, Danish, Greek, Dutch | Far right-wing, white nationalist and neo nazi encyclopedia | Free |
| Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 4. ed. 1888 - 1892 Meyers Konversations-Lexikon Meyers Konversations-Lexikon or Meyers Lexikon was a major German encyclopedia that existed in various editions, and several titles, from 1839 until 1984, when it merged with the Brockhaus encyclopedia.... |
German | General interest | Free |
| Nationalencyklopedin Nationalencyklopedin Nationalencyklopedin is the most comprehensive contemporary Swedish language encyclopedia, initiated by a favourable loan from the Government of Sweden of 17 million Swedish kronor in 1980, which was repaid by December 1990... |
Swedish | General interest, the most comprehensive contemporary Swedish language encyclopedia | Subscription |
| New World Encyclopedia | English | General interest | Free |
| Nupedia Nupedia Nupedia was an English-language Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief... |
English | Combined with GNUpedia | Free |
| Open Site Open Site Open-Site, the Open Encyclopedia Project, is a free internet encyclopedia founded in 2002 by Michael J. Flickinger in an effort to build a free categorized community-built encyclopedia, inspired by the Open Directory Project... |
English | Categorized community-built encyclopedia, inspired by the Open Directory Project Open Directory Project The Open Directory Project , also known as Dmoz , is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links. It is owned by Netscape but it is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.ODP uses a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings... |
Free |
| Private Sözlük Private Sözlük Private Sözlük collaborative hypertext Turkish dictionary and encyclopedia site that shares a similar concept with Ekşi Sözlük. Its aim is to build a community of contributors who believe that to share knowledge is to share life. The web site was created by Nursel Evecan, who posts under the... |
Turkish Turkish language Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,... |
Collaborative hypertext Turkish dictionary and encyclopedia site that shares a similar concept with Everything2 or H2G2 | Free |
| Probert Encyclopaedia Probert Encyclopaedia The Probert Encyclopaedia is an online encyclopedia containing over 110,000 entries organized topically, written and published by Matthew Probert under the name Probert Publishing... |
English | General interest | Free |
| Proleksis Encyclopedia Proleksis Encyclopedia The Proleksis Encyclopedia is the first Croatian general and national online encyclopedia.Proleksis Encyclopedia features more than 62,000 articles and more than 17,000 photographs, illustrations and maps. It is freely available to registered users of CARNet, the Croatian national research and... |
Croatian Croatian language Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries... |
General and national encyclopedia | Free with registration |
| Quid Quid (encyclopedia) Quid is a French encyclopedia, established in 1963 by Dominique Frémy. It was published annually between 1963 and 2007, first by Plon and later by Éditions Robert Laffont , and was the most popular encyclopedic reference work in France.The presentation is very compressed, and abbreviations are... |
French | General interest | Free |
| Sarvavijnanakosam Sarvavijnanakosam Sarvavijnanakosam, known in English as the Malayalam Encyclopaedia, is a general encyclopedia in the Malayalam language. It is intended to be a "a compendium of world knowledge", covering over 32,000 topics. The first volume was published in 1972, and currently 15 of the 20 volumes have been... |
Malayalam Malayalam language Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people... |
General interest | Free |
| Scholarpedia Scholarpedia Scholarpedia is an English-language online wiki-based encyclopedia that uses the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia, but has features more commonly associated with open-access online academic journals.... |
English | Articles are written by scholars and peer-reviewed for accuracy | Free |
| Store norske leksikon Store norske leksikon Store norske leksikon, abbreviated SNL, is currently the second most comprehensive contemporary Norwegian language encyclopedia. The SNL was created in 1978 when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. The name... |
Norwegian (Bokmål) Bokmål Bokmål is one of two official Norwegian written standard languages, the other being Nynorsk. Bokmål is used by 85–90% of the population in Norway, and is the standard most commonly taught to foreign students of the Norwegian language.... |
General interest | Free |
| Superpedia Superpedia Superpedia is an Indonesian education dictionary and encyclopedia. Initiated by Rumah Ilmu Indonesia Foundation. Started at 19 October 2008.... |
Bahasa Indonesia | Indonesian, based on MediaWiki | Free |
| Susning.nu Susning.nu Susning.nu was a Swedish language wiki, started in October 2001 by Lars Aronsson . In its first three years , Susning.nu ran as an open wiki that anyone could edit... |
Swedish | A Swedish language wiki 2001–2009 | Defunct |
| Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam is a state-sponsored encyclopedia that was published in 2005. It also is the first state encyclopedia of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam... |
Vietnamese | General interest. State-sponsored encyclopedia. | Free |
| Veropedia Veropedia Veropedia was a free, advertising-supported Internet encyclopedia project launched in late October 2007. It was taken down in January 2009 pending creation of a new version, which never arrived.... |
English, Dutch, Spanish | Mirrors stable versions of selected English Wikipedia English Wikipedia The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with almost three times as many articles as the next... articles |
Defunct |
| Vikidia Vikidia Vikidia is an online encyclopedia wiki for children, that runs on MediaWiki software. It is available in both French and Spanish. The site focuses on presenting articles readable by children from eight to thirteen years of age, as well as providing a resource for those learning Spanish and French... |
French, Spanish | Articles designed for children ages 8–13 | Free |
| WIEM Encyklopedia WIEM Encyklopedia WIEM Encyklopedia is a Polish Internet encyclopedia.... |
Polish Polish language Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries... |
General interest | Free |
| Wikipedia Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,... |
See list here | General interest wiki Wiki A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include... |
Free, copyleft Copyleft Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work... |
| Winkler Prins encyclopedie | Dutch | General interest, three different age levels | Subscription |
| World Book Encyclopedia World Book Encyclopedia The World Book Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia published in the United States. It is self-described as "the number-one selling print encyclopedia in the world." The encyclopedia is designed to cover major areas of knowledge uniformly, but it shows particular strength in scientific, technical, and... |
English | General interest | Subscription |
| Wikinfo | English | Holds multiple articles on subjects from different points of view | Free |
Biography
| Site | Language | Description | Access |
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| Australian Dictionary of Biography Australian Dictionary of Biography The Australian Dictionary of Biography is a national, co-operative enterprise, founded and maintained by the Australian National University to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.... |
English | Entries on notable Australians who have died | Free |
| Dictionary of Canadian Biography Dictionary of Canadian Biography The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is a dictionary of biographical entries for individuals who have contributed to the history of Canada. The DCB, which was initiated in 1959, is a collaboration between the University of Toronto and Université Laval... |
English, French | Entries on notable Canadians | Free |
| Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology is an encyclopedia/biographical dictionary.- Characteristic :... |
English | Focuses on topics dealing with Greek and Roman mythology and people | Free |
| Dictionary of National Biography Dictionary of National Biography The Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885... |
English | Comprehensive 66-volume reference work on notable figures from British history in every profession from politics to art | Subscription |
| Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Dictionary of New Zealand Biography The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography contains biographies for over 3,000 New Zealanders. It is available in both English and Maori. All volumes of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography are available online.... |
English, Māori Maori language Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand... |
Entries on notable New Zealanders who have died | Free |
| glbtq.com Glbtq.com glbtq.com is an online encyclopedia that presents detailed biographies of notable gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. It was named one of the "Best Free Reference Web Sites" in 2005 by the American Library Association.... |
English | Entries on notable homosexuals | Free |
| MacTutor History of Mathematics archive MacTutor History of Mathematics archive The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive is a website maintained by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson and hosted by the University of St Andrews in Scotland... |
English | Biographies of mathematicians | Free |
| MyWikiBiz MyWikiBiz MyWikiBiz is a wiki directory that allows people and enterprises to write about themselves. The brand began as a service creating Wikipedia articles for paying corporations; the founder and owner of MyWikiBiz, Gregory Kohs, was soon blocked from Wikipedia. , the MyWikiBiz directory contained over... |
English | A wiki encyclopedia that allows people and enterprises to write about themselves | Free |
| Who's Who Who's Who Who's Who is the title of a number of reference publications, generally containing concise biographical information on a particular group of people... |
English | General biographies, mainly of British people | Subscription |
Classical antiquities, arts, and literature
| Site | Language | Description | Access |
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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities is an English-language encyclopedia first published in 1842 and then in many revised editions through 1890... |
English | Incorporates text from the 19th century encyclopedia of the same name. Focuses on topics of cultural and historical Greek Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... and Roman Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... significance. |
Free |
| Encyclopedia Mythica Encyclopedia Mythica Encyclopedia Mythica is an internet encyclopedia of folklore, mythology, and religion. It covers the mythology of most of the world, with sections spanning Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, both North and South America, and Oceania. This encyclopedia was founded in June 1995 as a small site... |
English | Contains articles on mythology Mythology The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece... , folklore Folklore Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called... , and religion Religion Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to... |
Free |
| Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities Harpers Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities is an English-language encyclopedia on subjects of classical antiquity. It was edited by Harry Thurston Peck and published 1898 by Harper & Brothers in New York... |
English | Covers subjects of classical antiquity | Free |
| The Literary Encyclopedia The Literary Encyclopedia The Literary Encyclopedia is an online reference work first published in October 2000 which, as of May 2008, offers freely available content together with full content and services for subscribing members. Articles are written by "nearly 2000 named scholars, most of whom are current university... |
English | Literature Literature Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources... related articles |
Subscription |
| SIKART SIKART SIKART is a biographical dictionary and a database on visual art in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is published online by the Swiss Institute for Art Research... |
English, German, French, Italian | Biographical dictionary and database of Swiss visual art | Free |
Culture and country-specific
| Site | Language | Description | Access |
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| Aeiou Encyclopedia Aeiou Encyclopedia AEIOU is a free online collection of reference works in both German and English about Austria-related topics.-Background:... |
German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... , English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
Online database of Austrian culture | Free |
| Encyclopedia of Alabama Encyclopedia of Alabama The Encyclopedia of Alabama is a comprehensive source of information on the state of Alabama's history, culture, geography, and natural environment. It is a state-wide collaboration that involves more than forty institutions from across Alabama that share their archives with the project... |
English | Articles on the state of Alabama Alabama Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland... |
Free |
| Encyclopedia of Arkansas Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture , a web-based reference work, is a project of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System and is the only state encyclopedia sponsored by a public library... |
English | A project of the Central Arkansas Library System Central Arkansas Library System Central Arkansas Library System is a public library system headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The system serves Pulaski County and Perry County.The Main Library in Downtown Little Rock is the main branch of the system... and is the only U.S. state encyclopedia sponsored by a public library |
Free |
| Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, first published in 1854, was the last of a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar William Smith , which included as sister works A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and... |
English | Focuses on topic relating to Greek and Roman geography | Free |
| Encyclopædia Iranica Encyclopædia Iranica Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times... |
English, plans for a future Persian Persian language Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence... version |
Topics on the influence of the Iranian peoples Iranian peoples The Iranian peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group, consisting of the speakers of Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, as such forming a branch of Indo-European-speaking peoples... throughout history |
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| Encyclopedia of Korean Culture Encyclopedia of Korean Culture Encyclopedia of Korean Language is a Korean language encyclopedia published by the Academy of Korean Studies and DongBang Media Co. In 2001, the digital edition EncyKorea was published on CD-ROM and DVD... |
Korean | Korea-related topics | Free |
| Gazetteer for Scotland Gazetteer for Scotland The Gazetteer for Scotland is a gazetteer covering the geography, history and people of Scotland. It was conceived in 1995 by Bruce Gittings of the University of Edinburgh and David Munro of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and contains 15,500 entries as of January 2008, making it one of... |
English | Articles on the geography and locations of Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the... |
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| Jewish Encyclopedia Jewish Encyclopedia The Jewish Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia originally published in New York between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901... |
English | The state of Judaism Judaism Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people... and the Jews Jews The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation... (as of 1901) |
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| Jewish Virtual Library Jewish Virtual Library Jewish Virtual Library is an online encyclopedia published by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise . Established in 1993, it is a comprehensive website covering Israel, the Jewish people, and Jewish culture.-History:... |
English | Portals to essential Jewish topics | Free |
| Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan The Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan is a comprehensive English-language encyclopedia first published in 1983 that covers a broad range of topics on Japan.... |
English | Comprehensive articles on Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... ese arts and culture, history and politics, etc. |
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| Looklex Encyclopaedia (about) | English (based in Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... ) |
Middle East Middle East The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East... and North African topics (known as CiAS 1996-1999) |
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| New Georgia Encyclopedia New Georgia Encyclopedia The New Georgia Encyclopedia is a web-based encyclopedia containing over 2,000 articles about the state of Georgia.The Georgia Humanities Council, the Office of the Governor of Georgia, the University of Georgia Press, and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO have collaborated in the funding... |
English | Articles on the U.S. state Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788... |
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| Oregon Blue Book Oregon Blue Book The Oregon Blue Book is the official directory and fact book for the U.S. state of Oregon copyrighted by the Oregon Secretary of State and published by the Office of the Secretary's Archives Division. As Governor Ted Kulongoski notes in his introduction for the 2005–2006 edition, it "provides... |
English | Articles pertaining to Oregon Oregon Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern... |
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| The Oregon Encyclopedia The Oregon Encyclopedia The Oregon Encyclopedia of History and Culture is a collaborative encyclopedia, under development, focused on the history of the U.S. state of Oregon. The encyclopedia is a project of Portland State University's History Department and the Oregon Historical Society... |
English | Articles pertaining to Oregon Oregon Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern... |
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| Panyathai Panyathai Panyathai is a Thai online encyclopedia started on 1 December 2006 with 80 articles, mainly in Thai. Established in honor of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the site plan is to have at least 80,000 articles by 5 December 2007, the king's 80th birthday... |
Thai Thai language Thai , also known as Central Thai and Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Historical linguists have been unable to definitively... , limited English |
General interest. Designed to honor the Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej Bhumibol Adulyadej Bhumibol Adulyadej is the current King of Thailand. He is known as Rama IX... |
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| TAGIPEDIA TAGIPEDIA TAG-PEDIA is an online encyclopedia started April 7, 2008 by The Association of Arab Universities and the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization. Both organizations, educational institutions and research centers will provide information... |
Arabic, English | Articles on Arab Arab Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing... heritage and content |
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| Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand | English, Māori Maori language Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand... |
The New Zealand government site with content on the country | Free |
| Encyclopedia of Ukraine Encyclopedia of Ukraine The Encyclopedia of Ukraine is an English language, free, online encyclopedia covering wide range of issueson Ukraine, including its history, people, geography, economy, culture etc.... |
English | Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia... related articles |
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| Encyclopedia Virginia | English | Articles on Virginia Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there... 's history and culture |
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| Wikanda Wikanda Wikanda is an Andalusian encyclopedia based in MediaWiki. It has more than 50000 articles. It is divided into eight wikis and a meta project:* Almeriapedia * Cadizpedia * Cordobapedia... |
Spanish | Andalusian encyclopedia | Free |
Pop culture and fiction
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| Don Markstein's Toonopedia Don Markstein's Toonopedia Don Markstein's Toonopedia was a web encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation. Don D... |
English | Focuses on articles pertaining to print and animated cartoons | Free |
| H2G2 H2g2 h2g2 is a British-based collaborative online encyclopedia project engaged in the construction of, in its own words, "an unconventional guide to life, the universe, and everything", in the spirit of the fictional publication The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from the science fiction comedy series... |
English | Collection of sometimes humorous encyclopedia articles, based on Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. | Free |
| Heroes Wiki Heroes Wiki Heroes Wiki is a wiki-powered reference site for NBC's science fiction drama Heroes. Launched on October 10, 2006, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information. Heroes Wiki is supported by revenue from advertising, part of which is donated to various charities... |
English, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | Contains articles pertaining to the American television drama Heroes Heroes (TV series) Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the... . |
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| Lostpedia Lostpedia Lostpedia is a wiki-powered online encyclopedia of information regarding the American television drama Lost. Launched on September 22, 2005 by Kevin Croy, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information... |
English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese | Contains articles pertaining to the hit drama Lost Lost (TV series) Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island... |
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| Memory Alpha Memory Alpha Memory Alpha is a wiki that is an encyclopedic reference for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe. Conceived by Harry Doddema and Dan Carlson in September 2003 and officially launched on December 5 of that year, it uses the wiki model and is hosted by Wikia, Inc. on the MediaWiki... |
English, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Swedish | Articles about Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise... |
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| The Rocklopedia Fakebandica The Rocklopedia Fakebandica The Rocklopedia Fakebandica, by T. Mike Childs, is an illustrated encyclopedia of fictional musical groups and musicians, as seen in movies and television. It was officially released November 6, 2004. The book catalogs such better-known fake bands as Spinal Tap, The Monkees, The Rutles, and The... |
English | Articles on fake bands from popular entertainment | Free |
| TV Tropes TV Tropes TV Tropes is a wiki which collects and expands on various conventions and devices found within creative works. Since its establishment in 2004, the site has gone from covering only television and film tropes to also covering those in a number of other media such as literature, comics, video-games,... |
English, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, 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 Wookieepedia Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki is an online encyclopedia for information on the Star Wars fictional universe—including information on all six films, as well as The Clone Wars and the Expanded Universe... |
English, German, Spanish, Bulgarian Bulgarian language Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the... , Danish Danish language Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language... , Finnish Finnish language Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a... , French, Croatian Croatian language Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries... , Hungarian Hungarian language Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe.... , Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian Norwegian language Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language... , Polish Polish language Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries... , Portuguese, Russian, Romanian Romanian language Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova... , Slovak Slovak language Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people... , Slovene, Swedish, Chinese |
Star Wars Star Wars Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year... -related articles |
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| WoWWiki WoWWiki - External links :*... |
English, German, Spanish, French, Czech, Danish, Greek Greek language Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;... , Persian Persian language Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence... , Finnish, Hebrew Hebrew language Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such... , Hungarian, Icelandic Icelandic language Icelandic is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese.Icelandic is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the... , Italian, Lithuanian Lithuanian language Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they... , Latvian Latvian language Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language... , Dutch, Nynorsk Nynorsk Nynorsk or New Norwegian is one of two official written standards for the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. The standard language was created by Ivar Aasen during the mid-19th century, to provide a Norwegian alternative to the Danish language which was commonly written in Norway at the... , Bokmål Bokmål Bokmål is one of two official Norwegian written standard languages, the other being Nynorsk. Bokmål is used by 85–90% of the population in Norway, and is the standard most commonly taught to foreign students of the Norwegian language.... , Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay.... , Russian, Slovak Slovak language Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people... , Korean, Japanese, Chinese |
World of Warcraft World of Warcraft World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994... -related articles |
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| Wowpedia | English, Spanish, French, Czech, Russian | World of Warcraft World of Warcraft World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994... and Warcraft Warcraft Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game , developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the... Universe -related articles |
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Mathematics
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| Cut-the-knot Cut-the-knot Cut-the-knot is a free, advertisement-funded educational website maintained by Alexander Bogomolny and devoted to popular exposition of many topics in mathematics. The site has won more than 20 awards from scientific and educational publications, including a Scientific American Web Award in 2003,... |
English | Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity... related topics |
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| Encyclopaedia of Mathematics Encyclopaedia of Mathematics The Encyclopaedia of Mathematics is a large reference work in mathematics. It is available in book form and on CD-ROM.... |
English | Encompasses articles on the topic of mathematics Mathematics Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity... |
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| EqWorld EqWorld EqWorld is a free online mathematics reference work that lists information about mathematical equations.It covers ordinary differential, partial differential, integral, functional, and other mathematical equations... |
English, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish | Articles on mathematical equations | Free |
| MathWorld MathWorld MathWorld is an online mathematics reference work, created and largely written by Eric W. Weisstein. It is sponsored by and licensed to Wolfram Research, Inc. and was partially funded by the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library grant to the University of Illinois at... |
English | Articles on a wide variety of math related topics | Free |
| On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences , also cited simply as Sloane's, is an online database of integer sequences, created and maintained by N. J. A. Sloane, a researcher at AT&T Labs... |
English | Encyclopedia of number sequences (what is next term after 1,2,4,9,20,48,115, ..., say?) | Free |
| PlanetMath PlanetMath PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The emphasis is on rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and also community of about 24,000 people with various maths interests. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is hosted by the Digital... |
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 |
Music
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| Allmusic | English | Music-related topics | Retail sites |
| Discogs Discogs Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are... |
English | Database of audio releases | Free |
| Encyclopaedia Metallum Encyclopaedia Metallum Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music... |
English | Archives of heavy metal Heavy metal music Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States... bands |
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| LyricWiki LyricWiki LyricWiki is a lyrical database-oriented website. As of August 2011, it is the fourth largest MediaWiki installation with over 1,600,000 pages. Users on the site can view, edit, and discuss the lyrics of songs, which are also available for purchase from links on the site. The site is powered by... |
English | Encyclopedic database of song lyrics | Free |
| MOOMA MOOMA MOOMA is the leading web site dedicated to Israeli music. It contains information about Israeli artists from all genres, as well as general articles and news about Israeli music. The site editor is Ayelet Yagil.... |
Hebrew Hebrew language Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such... |
Articles on Israeli music and musical artists | Free |
| MusicBrainz MusicBrainz MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music database. Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB... |
English | Database of audio albums | Free |
| MusicMight MusicMight MusicMight, formerly Rockdetector is a rock music website which provides artist and product information through a global website and an ongoing book series... |
English | Bio- and discographies of rock bands | Free |
Philosophy
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| Encyclopedia of Marxism | multi-lingual | Topics related to the study of Marxism Marxism Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th... |
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| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a free online encyclopedia on philosophical topics and philosophers founded by James Fieser in 1995. The current general editors are James Fieser and Bradley Dowden... |
English | Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational... related articles |
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| Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an encyclopedia of philosophy edited by Edward Craig that was first published by Routledge in 1998 . Originally published in both 10 volumes of print and as a CD-ROM, in 2002 it was made available online on a subscription basis... |
English | Philosophy articles | Subscription |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a freely-accessible online encyclopedia of philosophy maintained by Stanford University. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors from over 65 academic institutions worldwide... |
English | Philosophy subjects | Free |
Politics and history
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| Campaigns Wikia | English | Political issues and campaigns | Free |
| Congresspedia Congresspedia Congresspedia was a wiki that ran from April 2006 to March 2009, designed to hold information on the workings of the U.S. Congress. It was fully contained within SourceWatch, a larger wiki meant to document the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. The Congresspedia portion of... |
English | Seeks to improve on public information through articles about US Congress specifics | Free |
| Cyclopaedia of Political Science Cyclopaedia of Political Science The Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best American and European Writers was an encyclopedia edited by John J. Lalor, first published in New York in 1881 by Maynard, Merrill and Co..... |
English | Articles pertaining to science Science Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe... , economics Economics Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"... , and American authors. The 1899 edition is available online |
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| dKosopedia | English | A political encyclopedia written from a left/progressive/liberal/Democratic point of view | Free |
| Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is published by the Union of International Associations under the direction of Anthony Judge. It is available as a three-volume book, as a CD-ROM, and online.... |
English | Presents articles on perceived human problems | Free |
| HistoryLink HistoryLink HistoryLink is a website that is an encyclopedia of Washington State history. The site has more than 4,500 stories. There are 500 biographies and more than 14,000 images.... |
English | Articles on the history of Washington State | Free |
| Jurispedia Jurispedia Jurispedia is a wiki encyclopedia of academic law in many languages, currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. It was started in October of 2004, inspired in part by Wikipedia and the Enciclopedia Libre... |
Arabic Arabic language Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book... , English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Dutch |
An academic encyclopedia on the concepts of law Law Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus... |
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Religion and theology
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| Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology The Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology is a freely accessible encyclopedia composed mainly by students of Boston University's Modern Western Theology seminars. It focuses on Christian theology, mainly from the Western world and is edited by Wesley J... |
English | Articles on Western Christian theology | Free, Public domain |
| Catholic Encyclopedia Catholic Encyclopedia The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia and the Original Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States. The first volume appeared in March 1907 and the last three volumes appeared in 1912, followed by a master index... |
English | Topics relating to Catholicism Catholicism Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole.... |
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| Christian Cyclopedia Christian Cyclopedia Christian Cyclopedia is a one-volume compendium of theological data, ranging from ancient figures to contemporary events. It is published by Concordia Publishing House. It should not be confused with The Lutheran Cyclopedia , edited by Henry Eyster Jacobs and Charles A.W... |
English | A collection of historical and theological information | Free |
| Easton's Bible Dictionary | English | Articles on Christianity and theology | Free, Public Domain |
| Encyclopaedia Biblica Encyclopaedia Biblica Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible , edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedia of the Bible. In Theology/Biblical studies, it is often... |
English | Contains articles pertaining to "the Literary, Political and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible" | Free |
| Encyclopedia of Mormonism Encyclopedia of Mormonism The Encyclopedia of Mormonism is a semi-official encyclopedia for topics relevant to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints... |
English | Articles by Mormon academics on history and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon or LDS Church). | Free |
| Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online The Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online is an online encyclopedia of topics relating to Mennonites and Anabaptism. The mission of the project is to provide free, reliable, English-language information on anabaptist-related topics.... |
English | Topics relating to Anabaptism and Mennonite Mennonite The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons , who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders... s |
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| Jewish Encyclopedia Jewish Encyclopedia The Jewish Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia originally published in New York between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901... |
English | Topics relating to Judaism Judaism Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people... |
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| New Advent New Advent New Advent is an online version of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.In 1993, Kevin Knight, then a 26-year-old resident of Denver, Colorado, was inspired, during the visit of Pope John Paul II to that city for World Youth Day, to launch a project to publish the 1913 edition of the encyclopedia on the... |
English | Articles on Catholicism Catholicism Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole.... and apologetics Apologetics Apologetics is the discipline of defending a position through the systematic use of reason. Early Christian writers Apologetics (from Greek ἀπολογία, "speaking in defense") is the discipline of defending a position (often religious) through the systematic use of reason. Early Christian writers... |
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Science
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| APpedia APpedia APpedia is a animal protection project of Chinese Animal Protection Network. The main objective of the project was to establish an online Chinese encyclopedia of animal protection. The project currently has more than 90 academic researchers and affiliated organizations around world.APpedia is... |
Chinese | Contains articles on the subject of general animal protection | Free |
| Encyclopedia Astronautica Encyclopedia Astronautica The Encyclopedia Astronautica is a reference web site on space travel. A comprehensive catalog of vehicles, technology, astronauts, and flights, it includes information from most countries that have had an active rocket research program, from Robert Goddard to the NASA Space shuttle to the Soviet... |
English | Contains articles on the subject of space exploration Space exploration Space exploration is the use of space technology to explore outer space. Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft.... and astronomy Astronomy Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth... |
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| Encyclopedia of Earth Encyclopedia of Earth The Encyclopedia of Earth is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is described as a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and other approved experts, who... |
English | Articles on the Earth and its ecosystems | Free |
| Javapedia Javapedia The Javapedia project was launched in June 2003 during the JavaOne developer conference. It is part of . The website is promoted by Sun Microsystems as the central meeting place for the Java community.... |
English | Coverage of all topics related to the Java platform | Free |
| ScienceWorld ScienceWorld ScienceWorld, also known as Eric Weisstein's World of Science, is a Web site that opened to the general public in January 2002. As of November 2007, ScienceWorld includes more than 4,000 entries in fields of science including astronomy, chemistry, physics, as well as biographies of many scientists... |
English | Covers astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. Like MathWorld MathWorld MathWorld is an online mathematics reference work, created and largely written by Eric W. Weisstein. It is sponsored by and licensed to Wolfram Research, Inc. and was partially funded by the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library grant to the University of Illinois at... , it is edited by Eric Weisstein. |
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Biology-Life science
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| Animal Diversity Web Animal Diversity Web Animal Diversity Web is an online database that collects the natural history, classification, species characteristics, conservation biology, and distribution information of thousands of species of animals... |
English | Student wiki-type database at the University of Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan... of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology. |
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| ARKive ARKive ARKive is a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world's threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", which it does by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species into a centralised digital archive. Its... |
English | Visual and audio recordings of the world's species | Free |
| Encyclopedia of Life Encyclopedia of Life The Encyclopedia of Life is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world... |
English, French | Seeks to categorize all 1.8 million known species on the planet | Free |
| Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Encyclopedia of Life Sciences The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is an encyclopedia that spans the entire spectrum of life sciences and is published by Wiley-Blackwell.... |
English | Biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines... related articles |
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| Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems is an interdisciplinary encyclopedia, sponsored by UNESCO and free for Least Developed Countries... |
English | Articles about the natural Natural science The natural sciences are branches of science that seek to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world by using empirical and scientific methods... and social sciences Social sciences Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences... |
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| Erowid Erowid Erowid, also called The Vaults of Erowid, is an online library of information about psychoactive plants and chemicals and other topics on altered states of consciousness such as meditation and lucid dreaming. It provides information about legal and illegal substances, including their desired and... |
English | Information about psychoactive substances | Free |
| FishBase FishBase FishBase is a comprehensive database of information about fish species . It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web... |
English, Spanish, Portuguese Portuguese language Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095... , French, German, Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia... , Dutch, Chinese (Simplified Han) Simplified Chinese character Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Xiandai Hanyu Tongyong Zibiao for use in Mainland China. Along with traditional Chinese characters, it is one of many standard character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language... , Chinese (Traditional Han) Traditional Chinese character Traditional Chinese characters refers to Chinese characters in any character set which does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946. It most commonly refers to characters in the standardized character sets of Taiwan, of Hong Kong, or in the Kangxi... , Bahasa Malay Malay language Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore... , Indonesian Indonesian language Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries.... , Greek Greek language Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;... , Swedish Swedish language Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish... , Russian Russian language Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics... , Persian Persian language Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence... , Vietnamese Vietnamese language Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam... , Thai Thai language Thai , also known as Central Thai and Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Historical linguists have been unable to definitively... , Lao Lao language Lao or Laotian is a tonal language of the Tai–Kadai language family. It is the official language of Laos, and also spoken in the northeast of Thailand, where it is usually referred to as the Isan language. Being the primary language of the Lao people, Lao is also an important second language for... , Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi... , Bangla |
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| Flora Europaea Flora Europaea The Flora Europaea is a 5-volume encyclopedia of plants, published between 1964 and 1993 by Cambridge University Press. The aim was to describe all the national Floras of Europe in a single, authoritative publication that helped readers identify any wild or widely cultivated plant in Europe to the... |
English | Covers different plant species | Free |
| Macroscopic Observatory Macroscopic Observatory The Macroscopic Observatory is an online reference work to create a detailed world map of flora and fauna and track changes in biodiversity. The database will be populated with data about local species gathered by members of the public.-See also:... |
English | Covers Flora Flora Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:... and Fauna Fauna Fauna or faunæ is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora.Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess shale fauna"... |
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| Palaeos Palaeos Palaeos.com is a web site on biology, paleontology, cladistics and geology and which covers the history of Earth. The site is well respected and has been used as a reference by professional paleontologists such as Michael J. Benton, the professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the Department of... |
English | Covers palaeontology | Free |
| The Plant List The Plant List The Plant List is a list of botanical names of species of plants, available on the world wide web. It was created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden... |
English | Covers Flora Flora Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:... |
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| Wikispecies Wikispecies Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aim is to create a comprehensive free content catalogue of all species and is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public... |
English | Seeks to create a catalogue of all living things | Free |
Medicine and surgery
At least 70 online medical wiki encyclopedias has been created. Some include:| Site | Language | Description | Access |
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| Ganfyd Ganfyd Ganfyd is a medical wiki community and online medical wiki encyclopedia, created in November 2005 by a group of doctors working in the United Kingdom. The site has been the subject of academic exposition into emerging methods of disseminating medical information and more specifically, the... |
English | Medical content | Free |
| Medcyclopaedia Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging The Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging is an online medical wiki encyclopedia of medical imaging used in radiology and radiography. Its online version is called Medcyclopaedia.... |
English | Articles on medical imaging Medical imaging Medical imaging is the technique and process used to create images of the human body for clinical purposes or medical science... used in radiology Radiology Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases... and radiography Radiography Radiography is the use of X-rays to view a non-uniformly composed material such as the human body. By using the physical properties of the ray an image can be developed which displays areas of different density and composition.... |
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| Medpedia Medpedia Medpedia is a collaborative project launched on 17 February 2009. Its aim is to create an open access online medical wiki encyclopedia in association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School, the U.K. National... |
English | Medical content | Free |
| Radiopaedia Radiopaedia Radiopaedia is a wiki-based international collaborative radiology educational web resource with reference articles, radiology images, and patient cases. It also contains a radiology encyclopedia... |
English | Articles on medical imaging Medical imaging Medical imaging is the technique and process used to create images of the human body for clinical purposes or medical science... used in radiology Radiology Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases... and radiography Radiography Radiography is the use of X-rays to view a non-uniformly composed material such as the human body. By using the physical properties of the ray an image can be developed which displays areas of different density and composition.... |
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| WikiSurgery | English | Surgical content | Free |
See also
- List of academic databases and search engines
- List of blogs
- List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge
- List of online databases
- List of online dictionaries
- List of wikis
- List of Danish online encyclopedic resources