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An encyclopedia (or encyclopædia) is a
comprehensive written compendium that contains information on either all
branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. Encyclopedias are
divided into articles with one article on each subject covered. The articles on
subjects in an encyclopedia are usually accessed alphabetically by article name
and can be contained in one volume or many volumes, depending on the amount of
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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, places, politics, arts, First Nations, sports
and science.
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Catalogue of Life
The Catalogue of Life is planned to become
a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth by the year
2011. Rapid progress has been made recently and this, the eighth edition of the
Annual Checklist, contains 1,105,589 species. Please note that this is probably
just more than half of the world's known species. This means that for many
groups it continues to be deficient.
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Conservapedia
Conservapedia is an English-language
wiki-based web encyclopedia project written from an Americentric socially
conservative and Conservative Christian point of view. It was started in 2006 by
lawyer and history teacher Andrew Schlafly, son of conservative activist and
Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly. He stated that he founded the project
because he felt that the open-source web encyclopedia Wikipedia had a liberal,
anti-Christian, and anti-American bias.
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Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Don Markstein's Toonopedia (subtitled "A
Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge") is a Web encyclopedia of print and
animated cartoons. While the site aims for comprehensiveness, it makes little or
no pretense of having a neutral point of view. Markstein is the sole writer and
editor of Toonopedia.
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Encarta
Encarta is a digital multimedia
encyclopedia published by
Microsoft
Corporation. As of 2005, the complete English version, Encarta Premium consists
of more than 68,000 articles, numerous images and movies, and homework tools,
and is available on the World Wide Web by yearly subscription or by purchase on
DVD-ROM or multiple CD-ROMs. Many articles can also be viewed online free of
charge, a service supported by advertisements.
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Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español is
a Spanish language wiki encyclopedia, released under the GNU Free Documentation
License. It uses the MediaWiki software.
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Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
The Encyclopaedia of Mathematics is a
large reference work in mathematics. It is available in book form, on CD-ROM,
and can also be browsed online for free. The 2002 version contains more than
8,000 entries covering most areas of mathematics at a graduate level, and the
presentation is technical in nature. The encyclopedia is edited by Michiel
Hazewinkel and was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers until 2003, when
Kluwer became part of Springer. The CDROM contains animations and
three-dimensional objects.
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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 Shuttle Buran. It is maintained by space enthusiast
Mark Wade, who has been collecting such information for most of his life.
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Encyclopedia of Earth
The Encyclopedia of Earth (also EoE) 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 collaborate and review each others' work. The
articles are written in non-technical language and are intended to be useful to
students, educators, scholars, and professionals, as well as to the general
public.
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Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free,
online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.8 million
species of living organisms known to science. The EOL went live on February 26,
2008 with 30,000 entries. The site immediately proved to be extremely popular,
and temporarily had to revert to demonstration pages for two days when it was
overrun by traffic from over 11 million views it received. It is compiled from
existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout
the world. It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for each species,
including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text. In addition, the
Encyclopedia will incorporate the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which will
contain the digitized print collections from the world's major natural history
libraries. The project is initially backed by a $50 million funding commitment,
led by the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general
English-language encyclopaedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a
privately held company. The articles in the Britannica are aimed at educated
adult readers, and written by a staff of about 100 full-time editors and over
4,000 expert contributors. It is widely perceived as the most scholarly of
encyclopaedias.
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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. It is widely considered to be the most scholarly of
French-language encyclopedias.
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FishBase
FishBase is a comprehensive database of
information about fish. As of October 2007, it included descriptions of over
30,000 species, over 260,000 common names in hundreds of languages, over 45,000
pictures, and references to more than 40,000 works in the scientific literature.
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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. It is a project of Columbia University, started
in 1973 at its Center for Iranian Studies, and is considered the standard
encyclopaedia of the academic discipline of Iranistics. The scope of the
encyclopedia goes beyond Persia (Iran) and encompasses other geographical areas
where Iranian languages dominated at certain times: Afghanistan, Tajikistan,
Anatolia and Kurdistan, as well as some regions of the Caucasus, South Asia,
Central Asia, and Mesopotamia. Relations of the Iranian world with other
cultures (China, Europe, etc.) are also covered. The project has published 12
volumes, and is planning on publishing a total of up to 30 volumes. The full
text of entries is available for free viewing online. (PC and Mac users require
a simple free font download to display words showing their correct characters
and accents, but this is not necessary for casual viewing.)
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Jewish Encyclopedia
The Jewish Encyclopedia was an
encyclopedia originally published 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. It is now a public domain resource.
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MathWorld
MathWorld is an online mathematics
reference work, created and largely written by Eric W. Weisstein. It is
sponsored by Wolfram Research Inc. and partially funded by the National Science
Foundation's National Science Digital Library grant to the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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PlanetMath
PlanetMath is a free, collaborative,
online mathematics encyclopedia. The emphasis is on peer review, rigour,
openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and community.
Intended to be comprehensive, the project is located at the Digital Library
Research Lab at Virginia Tech.
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Uncyclopedia
Uncyclopedia, "the content-free
encyclopedia that anyone can edit", was founded in 2005 as an English-language
wiki featuring satirically themed articles. It is formatted as a parody of
Wikipedia and aims ultimately to parody all encyclopedic subjects. Originally an
English-language wiki, the project currently spans over 50 languages with almost
100,000 pages of content.
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia (pronunciation ) is a free,
multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United
States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the
words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia.
Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest,
fastest-growing, and most popular general reference work on the Internet.
Wikipedia is a project that attempts to summarize all human knowledge.
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