List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge

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

General encyclopedia

Printed works

English language

• The Children's Encyclopedia, by Arthur Mee.
• Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia, published by Dorling Kindersley
• Collier's Encyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Columbia University Press last published in 2000.
• Cambridge Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Cambridge University Press last published in 1997, edited by David Crystal
• Compton's Encyclopedia: 26 volume encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Americana: both a print work and currently a part of Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
• Encyclopædia Britannica: one of the best-known encyclopedias in English. See also the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Funk & Wagnalls
• Groliers Encyclopedia
• Grolier Book of Knowledge: 20 volumes of equal length
• New American Desk Encyclopedia: Small paperback encyclopedia last published in 1997
• Oracle Encyclopædia: a five volume encyclopedia published in 1895
• Random House Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia from Random House last published in 1990
• Pears Cyclopaedia: a one-volume encyclopaedia published annually in the United Kingdom
• The Penguin Encyclopedia: a one-volume encyclopedia published by the Penguin Group in 2002 and edited by David Crystal
• World Book Encyclopedia: designed for family use, World Book is the world's best selling print encyclopedia

Spanish language

• Diccionario Enciclopédico Espasa
• Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Americano de Literatura, Ciencias y Artes: Barcelona, Montaner y Simón, 1887–1899, reprints and appendices up to 1910. Reprinted by the London editor Walter M. Jackson (C. H. Simonds Company, Impresores, Boston, Estados Unidos de Norte América).
• Enciclopedia Encarta
• Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana; the biggest encyclopedia of its time. Also known as Enciclopedia Espasa o Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe
• Enciclopedia Labor
• Enciclopedia Libre Universal also known as Enciclopedia Libre
• Enciclopedia moderna: diccionario universal de literatura, ciencias, artes, agricultura, industria y comercio, Madrid: editor Francisco de Paula Mellado, 1851-1855, 37 volúmenes.
• Enciclopedia Salvat
• Gran enciclopedia planeta, 20 volumes, DVD and on-line encyclopedia, 2004. Geared for adults, and published by the same people who publish the Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Britannica Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada, 20 volumes; heavily illustrated. Also published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, but designed for students 10–17 years of age.
• Nueva enciclopedia Durvan
• Nueva enciclopedia cumbre, published by Grolier in 14 volumes and available online.

Other languages

• Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste: very large 19th-century German-language encyclopaedia by Ersch and Gruber
• Anabritannica: published in Turkey and based on the Britannica Micropædia
• Banglapedia: National encyclopedia of Bangladesh
• Brockhaus: German encyclopedia
• Brockhaus and Efron: Russian-language imperial encyclopedia in 86 volumes
• Encyclopedia of China
• Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (The Great Danish Encyclopedia) in Danish
• Enciclopedia Italiana in Italian
• Enciklopedija Jugoslavije in Serbo-Croatian
• Enciklopedija Slovenije in Slovene
• Enciclopedia României in Romanian (1939)
• Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Большая Советская Энциклопедия): The second largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia in Russian; here were 3 editions, 3rd edition of 1969-1978 contains 30 volumes
• Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon: huge 18th-century German encyclopedia by Johann Heinrich Zedler
• Gujin tushu jicheng: Chinese language encyclopedia completed in 1725 (10 million Chinese characters)
• Tamil Kalaik kaLanjiyam: Tamil-language 10-volume encyclopedia published in 1963.
• Lexicon Universale in Latin (1698)
• Magyar Nagylexikon (The Great Hungarian Lexicon): 19 volume general encyclopedia in Hungarian
• Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (1999): 27 volume German encyclopedia of music and musicians
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon; in German
• Pomorska enciklopedija: in Serbo-Croatian (The Maritime Encyclopedia)
• Medicinska enciklopedija: in Serbo-Croatian
• Tehnička enciklopedija: in Serbo-Croatian (Technical encyclopedia)
• Enciklopedija hrvatske umjetnosti: in Croatian (The Encyclopedia of Croatian Art), (2005)
• Filmska enciklopedija: in Croatian (The Film encyclopedia)
• Nationalencyklopedin: encyclopedia in Swedish
• Nordisk familjebok: encyclopedia in Swedish
• Otto's encyclopedia: the largest Czech-language encyclopedia published between 1888–1908 and 1930–1943
• The Book of Healing: a thirty volume Arabic-language encyclopedia published by Avicenna in 1027
• The Persian Encyclopedia : a three volume Persian-language encyclopedia edited by Gholamhossein Mosahab, partially based on the early editions of the Columbia Encyclopedia
• Vojna enciklopedija in Serbo-Croatian (The Military Encyclopedia)
• Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN, 13 volumes, 1962–1970, the largest encyclopedia to date in Polish
• Wielka Encyklopedia PWN, 2001–2005, the successor to the WEP PWN; larger and more objective, it is currently being finished

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

• AllRefer.com: Columbia Encyclopedia
• Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia: only available in electronic form.
• Encyclopædia Britannica. See also the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, available on DVD
• Encyclopedia of Kirill and Mefodiy: in Russian.
• Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, in Spanish.
• Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia: The first computer encyclopedia, produced on CD-ROM by KnowledgeSet in 1985.
• Microsoft Encarta: once published by Microsoft, now discontinued. It was only available in electronic form.
• Nueva enciclopedia cumbre, published by Grolier.
• Micronet Universal: in Spanish. Published by Micronet.
• here Encyclopédie Larousse en ligne, available.
• here The Enciclopedia Compacta Britannica, available from Babylon. The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia translated into Spanish.
• Rubricon: the largest online encyclopedic portal in Russian.
• Wikipedia: Officially the world's largest free encyclopedia — a project to create a comprehensive encyclopedia using wiki software
• Software MacKiev World Book: Windows and Mac electronic versions published by. Contains every article from print encyclopedia.

Website only

• Enciclopedia Libre: project to create a Spanish encyclopedia using wiki software, released under the GFDL.
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
• Encyclopaedia of Turkey: An online encyclopedia about Turkey and Anatolian Culture.
• website Enciclopedia României (Encyclopedia of Romania): project to create a Romanian-language encyclopedia using wiki software, released under the CC by-nc-nd 3.0 -
• EncycloZine: an online encyclopedia of books and knowledge.
• Everything2
• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: an electronic encyclopedia published by Grolier.
• Hierarchypedia: an online encyclopedia using Wikimedia that is no longer online.
• Internet FAQ archives
• netcyclo: John Anderson's Internet encyclopedia project.
• Nupedia: a peer reviewed, open content encyclopedia project, currently inactive.
• Open Site: an effort inspired by, but not officially affiliated with, the Open Directory Project.
• Ekşi Sözlük: a collaborative hypertext Turkish dictionary and encyclopedia site that shares a similar concept with Everything2 or H2G2.
• Probert Encyclopaedia: an online topical encyclopedia consisting of almost 100,000 short entries, published by Mathew Probert and based in the United Kingdom.
• Susning.nu: project to create a Swedish-language encyclopedia using wiki software. Anyone-can-edit encyclopedia until 2004, shut down in 2009.
• Wikipedia
• Wikiweise: project to create a German-language encyclopedia using wiki software, released under the GFDL.
• WikiZnanie: project to create a Russian-language encyclopedia using wiki software, released under the BSD DPL.

Specialized encyclopedias

National, regional, ethnic or cultural

African

• Encyclopedia Zimbabwe

American

• Encyclopedia of New Jersey
• Handbook of Texas
• Utah History Encyclopedia (1994)

Australian

• Australian Encyclopaedia (1925, 1958, 1977, 1983, 1988, 1996)
• Online version Encyclopedia of Melbourne Sept 2005. Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain. 864 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-84234-1 -

Austrian

• aeiou Encyclopedia (1996ff.) Austrian

Bangladesh

• Banglapedia in 10 Volumes published in 2003 bilingual of English and Bengali.

Belarusian

• Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia in 12 volumes (1969–1974)
• Encyclopedia of Literature and Art of Belarus in 5 volumes (1984–1987)
• Encyclopedia of Ethnography of Belarus in 1 volume (1989)
• Encyclopedia of History of Belarus in 6 volumes (1993–2003)
• Belarusian Encyclopedia in 18 volumes (1996–2004)
• Encyclopedia of Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 3 volumes (2005–2010)

Canadian

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

China

• Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, 2009, 5 vls.

Cuba

• Enciclopedia Cubana, 2010.

Croatian

• Opća enciklopedija JLZ - (1977–1982)
• Hrvatska opća enciklopedija (started in 1999- 7th vol. 2005 of 11)
• Opća i nacionalna enciklopedija (2005- complete 2007)

India

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

Iranian

• Loghatnameh Dehkhoda: a fourteen volume Persian dictionary edited by Dr. Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
• Encyclopædia Iranica: on Iranian peoples and Iran (Persia)
• Encyclopaedia of Iran and Islam published in Persian in Tehran
• Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature published by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature in Persian in Tehran
• The Encyclopedia of Iranian Old Music: Published in Tehran, 2000.

London

• The London Encyclopaedia 1007 page reference of the city of London, pub. 1983

Malaysian

• The Encyclopedia of Malaysia, published from 1998 to 2007

New Zealand

• The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (1897–1908) unofficial, most subjects paid to have their articles appear, online at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre.
• An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand (1966) official.
• Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand (2005–) official, incorporating the full text of An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand.

Pakistan

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

Poland

• Encyklopedia Polski (translation: Encyclopedia of Poland).
• Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN (translation: PWN Universal Encyclopedia).

Slovenian

• Enciklopedija Slovenije, published in 1987-2002

South Asian

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

Subject

Art and Architecture

• Wasmuths Lexikon der Baukunst, ed. by Günther Wasmuth, Berlin: Wasmuth, 1929-1937, 5 vls.
• Grove Dictionary of Art in 34-volumes (1996)
• Encyclopedia of 20th-century architecture, ed. by R. Stephen Sennott, New York [u.a.] : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004, 3 vls.
• The Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture, ed. by Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair, Oxford [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2009, 3 vls.

Entertainment

• Allgame: A comprehensive online guide to computer and video games created by All Media Guide.
• Allmovie: A comprehensive online guide to movies created by All Media Guide.
• Allmusic: A comprehensive online guide to music created by All Media Guide.
• Quasimodobell: Online Encyclopedia for music artists & bands

Environmental Science

• Encyclopedia of Hydrological Science John Wiley and Sons [www.wiley.co.uk/ehs]
• Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) (an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society)
• Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) -- sponsored by UNESCO—an interdisciplinary encyclopedia, inspired by the sustainable development movement
• Ekopedia -- a wiki encyclopedia about environmental sustainability

Fashion and dress

• Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion, ed. by Valerie Steele, 3 vls., Detroit [etc.]: Thomson Gale, 2005
• Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, ed. by Joanne B. Eicher, 10 vls., Oxford [etc.] : Berg, 2010 (also online)

Fiction (or fictional)

• Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, a fictional Chinese encyclopedia invented by Jorge Luis Borges
• Encyclopedia Galactica was created and referenced by Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pays homage to the Encyclopedia Galactica, but is apparently better because it is slightly cheaper and has the words "Don't Panic" written on the cover.
• The Rocklopedia Fakebandica by T. Mike Childs, pub. 2004
• The Star Trek Encyclopedia

Film

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

History and biography

• Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience
• African American National Biography
• American National Biography
• Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography: 19th century Americans
• Children's Encyclopedia of American History
• An Encyclopedia of Battles: comprehensive accounting of battles and wars throughout history.
• An Encyclopedia of World History: single-volume work. First Edition, 1940. Sixth Edition, 2001.
• Encyklopedia Polski (Encyclopedia of Poland).
• Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History From 458 to 1905: Harper & Brothers
• Encyclopedia of U.S. labor and working-class history, ed. by Eric Arnesen, New York, New York [etc.] : Routledge, 2007
• Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, historical encyclopedia of Switzerland in German, French and Italian, (Print edition: 2002-).
• Historisches Lexikon Bayerns multimedia online encyclopedia of Bavarian history.
• The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
• The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, ed. by Immanuel Ness, Malden, Massachusetts [etc.]: Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 1-4051-8464-7
• Lexikon des Mittelalters (German encyclopedia of medieval history; 1980ff.)
• Oxford Classical Dictionary: Despite the name, a one-volume encyclopedia for antiquity.
• Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft: Pauly-Wissowa (Eds.) (1894–1980; specialising in classical antiquity).
• World War II Encyclopedia (Time-Life Publications, 1976)
• Encyclopedia Rizaliana: a one-volume encyclopedia about the life, works and influence of the Philippine patriot, Jose Protasio Rizal, published by Lulu Press in 2008 and edited by Jose Fadul

Language

• Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik
• Encyclopedia of language & linguistics, ed. by Keith Brown, 14 vls., Amsterdam [etc.] : Elsevier, 2nd edition 2006
• The international encyclopedia of communication, 12 vls., Malden, Mass. [etc.] : Blackwell, 2008

Law

• Arabic Legislations Encyclopedia
• American Jurisprudence
• Corpus Juris Secundum
• Halsbury's Laws of England
• Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, 5 vls., Detroit [etc.] : Macmillan Reference USA, 2008

International and comparative law

• Encyclopedia of Public International Law
• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
• The Oxford international encyclopedia of legal history, Oxford University Press, 2009

Literature

• Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
• Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, First edition 1979, second edition (April 1993), by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
• Laffont-Bompiani. Dictionnaire universel des lettres Publié sous la direction de Pierre Clarac Inspecteur général de l'Instruction publique, Société d'édition de dictionnaires et encyclopédies Paris VII, impr. Mame (1961), pp.952
• The Literary Encyclopedia, online, started in 2000
• The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986), edited by Jack Sullivan
• The Poets' Encyclopedia edited by Michael Andre

Mathematics

• Klein's encyclopedia (1898–1935)
• Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics (EDM2), Second edition 1993, The Mathematical Society of Japan. The preferred reference of professionals.
• Mathworld online encyclopedia by Eric Weisstein
• CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Second edition 2002, based on Mathworld
• planetmath
• On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)
• Encyclopaedia of Mathematics Springer Verlag 2002
• Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security Springer-Verlag 2005

Medicine

For further examples, see :Category:Encyclopedias on medicine.

• Medicalopaedia encyclopaedia of medicine by Burhan Ahmed
• Kitab al-Tasrif (The Method of Medicine), by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)
• American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia
• Ayurvedic Encyclopedia,
• The Canon of Medicine, by Avicenna
• Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), by Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu
• The Comprehensive Book on Medicine, by Ibn al-Nafis
• Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine
• Encyclopedia of Public Health
• Firdous al-Hikmah (Paradise of Wisdom), by Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari
• Medical Compendium in Seven Books by Paul of Aegina in the 7th century CE; it was the most complete medical encyclopedia in its day
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

Music

• Enciclopedia della musica, 2001–2005, edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez, in 5 volumes. Collection of in-depth essays rather than brief, dictionary-like entries.
• The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
• Komponisten der Gegenwart
• Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, ed. by David Shepard, London [etc.] 2003-

Philosophy

• The Book of Healing, by Avicenna.
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Paul Edwards.
• Encyclopédie philosophique universelle, published by Presses Universitaires de France.
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ongoing since 1995)

Photography

• Hans-Michael Koetzle: Das Lexikon der Fotografen: 1900 bis heute, Munich: Knaur 2002, 512 p., ISBN 3-426-66479-8
• John Hannavy (ed.): Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, 1736 p., New York: Routledge 2005 ISBN 978-0415972352
• Lynne Warren (ed.): Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 1719 p., New York, NY [etc] : Routledge, 2006

Psychoanalysis

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

Science

• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space, 1990 ISBN 0-521-36426-4
• Encyclopedia Astronautica: a reference website maintained by space-travel enthusiast Mark Wade
• Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. Wiley, 2000, 15 volumes.
• Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry. Elsevier, 2004.
• Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry. Knovel, 2001, 3 volumes.
• Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing. Dekker, 1976, 5 volumes.
• Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry. Wiley, 1997, 5 volumes.
• Encyclopedia of Genetics
• Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry. Wiley, 2005 (2nd ed), 10 volumes.
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) -- owned by John Wiley & Sons -- having both a 20-volume print edition and an online edition
• Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry. Dekker.
• Grolier Popular Science
• The Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia
• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. Wiley, 26 volumes.
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: also comes in a one-volume edition.
• Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Wiley, 40 volumes.
• The New Encyclopedia of Snakes
• Small Mining Encyclopedia

Religion

General

• Encyclopedia of religion, 15 vls., ed. by Lindsay Jones, Detroit [etc.]: Macmillan Reference USA, 2nd edition 2005

Buddhism

• Encyclopedia of Buddhism, ed.by Damien Keown and Charles S. Prebish, London [etc.]: Routledge 2009, ISBN 0-415-55624-4

Christianity

• The Catholic Encyclopedia. 1907–1912 (15 vls.)
• New Catholic encyclopedia. 1967–1996 (15 vls. and 4 supplementary vls.). 2. ed. 2003 (15 vls.)
• Encyclopédie des sciences ecclésiastiques
• Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 1. ed. 1909–1913 (5 vls.), 4th ed. 1998–2005
• Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon: internationale theologische Enzyklopädie. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 1956–1961 (3 vls.). – 2nd ed. 1961–1962. – 3rd ed. 1986–1997 (5 vls.)
• Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche. 1930–1938 (10 vls.)
• Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE) Hrsg. Gerhard Müller. 38 vls.. Berlin 1977–2007.
• Encyclopædia Biblica
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism

Islam

• Encyclopaedia of Islam
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, ed. by John L. Esposito, Oxford UP, New edition 2009
• The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture, ed. by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, Oxford UP 2009
• Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, ed. by Suad Joseph, Brill Academic Publishers, 2007

Judaism

• Encyclopaedia Judaica: published 1972-1991, second edition 2006-
• Jewish Encyclopedia: published 1901-1906. Original full 12 volumes.
• Talmudic Encyclopedia (cf. Talk:List of encyclopedias).
• Jewish Virtual Library
• on the Web Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian: 11 volumes, published 1976-2005 in Jerusalem and.
• online The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day, hrg. von Cyrus Adler und Isidore Singer, 12 Bände, New York; London: Funk and Wagnalis, 1901–1906, auch
• The universal Jewish encyclopedia: an authoritative and popular presentation of Jews and Judaism since the earliest times, ed. by Isaac Landman, 10 vls., New York, New York: Univ. Jewish Encyclopedia Co., 1948
• Jüdisches Lexikon. Ein enzyklopädisches Handbuch des jüdischen Wissens, Begründet von Georg Herlitz und Bruno Kirschner, 5 vls., Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag, 1992
• Encyclopedia of modern Jewish culture, ed. by Glenda Abramson, London [etc.]: Routledge, 2005
• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Yale UP, 2008

Social sciences

• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. by David L. Sills, New York, New York [etc.]: Macmillan, 1968

• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, ed. by Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes, 26 vls., Elsevier, 2001

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

Economics

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

Sports

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

Martial Arts

• Bugei Ryuha Daijiten, Japanese martial arts

Technology

• The Internet Encyclopedia, 2003, Wiley

Theatre, Dance and Performance

• Manfred Brauneck: Die Welt als Bühne: Geschichte des europäischen Theaters, Stuttgart [etc.] : Metzler, 1993-2007,
• International encyclopedia of dance, ed. by Selma Jeanne Cohen, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 6 vls., ISBN 0-19-509462-X
• The world encyclopedia of contemporary theatre, ed. by Don Rubin, London [etc.] : Routledge, 1994 - 2000, 6 vls.
• The Oxford encyclopedia of theatre & performance, ed. by Dennis Kennedy, Oxford [etc.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2003, 2 vls.
• Encyclopedia of Latin American theater, ed. by Eladio Cortés. - Westport, Conn. [etc.] : Greenwood Press, 2003
• Metzler Lexikon Theatertheorie, ed. by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Doris Kolesch and Matthias Warstat, Stuttgart 2005
• Encyclopedia of Asian theatre, ed. by Samuel L. Leiter, Westport, Conn. [u.a.] : Greenwood Press, 2007, 2 vls.

Other

• Above and Beyond: The Encyclopedia of Aviation and Space Sciences
• The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants: a comprehensive illustrated work on garden plants.
• American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers
• Animal Rights Encyclopedia
• Christie's World Encyclopedia of Champagne & Sparkling Wine
• The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft: 1997, one large volume
• Encyclopedia Brunoniana: An encyclopedia covering Brown University
• Encyclopedia of Personal Finance; Comprehensive information about investing and personal finance
• The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts
• Encyclopedia of Counseling
• Encyclopedia of Marxism: an online encyclopedia released under the GNU Free Documentation License, part of the Marxist Internet Archive.
• Encyclopedia of Nutritional Supplements
• An Encyclopaedia of Occultism: 1920 work on occultism
• Encyclopedia Titanica; Exhaustive information about the sinking of RMS Titanic
• three book volumes Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential published since 1972 by the Union of International Associations (UIA). Previously published in and on CD-ROM; now published and developed online here.
• watch-wiki an online encyclopedia released under the GNU Free Documentation License
• The Grocer's Encyclopedia
• Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft
• Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
• Larousse Gastronomique, encyclopedia of food and cooking.
• A Military Encyclopedia
• MusicBrainz: a project to create a free music encyclopedia, released under the Open Content License. The first goal is to create a database similar to CDDB.
• Nazarian`s Gun`s Recognition Guide
• The Oxford Companion to Wine
• Perelman's Pocket Cyclopedia of Cigars An encyclopedia and history of (Non-Cuban) cigars and their manufacturers (also Perelman's Pocket Cyclopaedia of Havana Cigars)
• The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia
• The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
• De Encyclopedie (The Encyclopedia), parody encyclopedia by Dutch author Battus
• Watch Wiki, encyclopedia about mechanical watches
• Encyclopedia of Associations: a printed directory of associations and nonprofit groups published by Thomson Gale. Also available online as Associations Unlimited.

See also

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