List of Internet encyclopedias
This is a list of notable online encyclopedias that are freely accessible on the Internet.
Site Language Description Access
Collaborative systems for Appropedia English sustainability, poverty reduction Free and international development
Citizendium English General interest, wiki Free
Columbia English General interest Free Encyclopedia
American conservative and Conservapedia English Free Christian interests Collection of articles on Digital Universe English educational, cultural, and Free scientific topics
Limited free access and Encyclopædia English General interest features,subscrip Britannica tionfor full access
Public domain: Encyclopædia completely free Britannica –1911 English General interest access from Edition several online sources
Free Infoplease English General interest
Free King Abdulllah
Abdul Aziz Arabic, Health encyclopedia Health English
Encyclopedia
Site Language Description Access
General interest - Affiliated with English Unification Church; in part, selects New World and rewrites certain Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia articles to reflect Unification Church values.
Probert English General interest Free Encyclopaedia
Articles are written by scholars Scholarpedia English and peer-reviewed for accuracy Free
Biography
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The original 19th century version of the above. Available Dictionary of English free in a variety of places, either Free (see left) National Biography as transcriptions or images of the printed volumes MacTutor History of Mathematics English Biographies of mathematicians Free archive
A wiki encyclopedia that allows MyWikiBiz English people and enterprises to write Free about themselves
Antiquities, arts, and literature
Site Language Description Access A Dictionary of Incorporates text from the Greek and Roman 19th century encyclopedia of English Free Antiquities the same name. Focuses on topics of cultural Site Language Description Access and historical Greek and Roman significance. EncyclopediaMythica Contains articles on English mythology, folklore, and Free religion
Harpers Dictionary of English Covers subjects of Free Classical classical antiquity Antiquities
Culture and country-specific
Site Language Description Access Encyclopedia of Articles on the English Free Alabama state of Alabama A project of the Central Arkansas Library System and Encyclopedia of English is the only U.S. state Free Arkansas encyclopedia sponsored by a public library Dictionary of Articles on the history and English Free Sydney culture of Sydney, Australia Dictionary of Greek and English Focuses on topic relating to Free Roman Greek and Roman geography Geography English, plans for a Topics on the influence of the Encyclopædia future Persianversi Iranian peoples throughout Free Iranica on history Encyclopedia of Korean Korea-related topics Free Korean Culture
Free Gazetteer for Articles on the geography and English Scotland locations of Scotland
Site Language Description Access Free, Public Jewish The state of Judaism and English domain Encyclopedia the Jews (as of 1901)
Free Jewish Virtual Portals to essential English Library Jewish topics
Middle East and North Looklex English ( African topics (known as Free Encyclopaedia based inNorway) CiAS 1996-1999)
New Georgia Articles on the U.S. Free English Encyclopedia state Georgia
Free Oregon Blue English Articles pertaining to Oregon Book
Free The Oregon English Articles pertaining to Oregon Encyclopedia General interest. Designed to Thai, limited Panyathai honor the Thai king Free English BhumibolAdulyadej TeAra: The The New Zealand government Encyclopedia of English, M ori site with content on the Free New Zealand country Encyclopedia of English Ukraine related articles Free Ukraine andUkrainian Encyclopedia Articles on Virginia's history English Free Virginia and culture English-Turkish sentencebased corpus- Yeminlisozluk Turkish Free encyclopedia of general interest (Sözlük)
Pop culture and fiction
Site Languag e Description Access Focuses on articles pertaining to Pokémon, Bulbapedia English including the Pokémon Free moves, TV shows and movies. Don Focuses on articles Markstein'sToono English pertaining to print and Free pedia animated cartoons
Satirical NSFW wiki mostly covering EncyclopediaDramatica English Internet memes ; Free claims to be based on the Devil's Dictionary. Contains articles pertaining to the Fringepedia English American Free television drama Fringe.
Collection of sometimes humorous encyclopedia articles, H2G2 English Free based on Douglas Adams'sThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
English, Dutch, Contains articles French, pertaining to the German,Hebrew, Heroes Wiki American Free Italian,Portuguese, television drama Spanish, Swedish,Tu Heroes. rkish
English, German, Spanish, French, Contains articles Italian, Lostpedia pertaining to the hit Free Japanese,Dutch, drama Lost Polish,Portuguese, Russian, Chinese English, Bulgarian, Articles about Star Memory Alpha Chinese, Czech,Dutc h, Free Trek Esperanto, French,
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German,Polish,Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish
The Encyclopedia of Authors, books, films English Free Science Fiction of SF The Articles on fake bands RocklopediaFakebandic English from popular Free a entertainment Articles related to the devices and English, German, conventions that a Esperanto, Spanish, fiction writer can TV Tropes French, Norwegian, Free reasonably rely on as Finnish, Swedish, Al being present in the Bhed, Quenya audience members' minds and expectations
English, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Finnish, French, Georgian,Hu ngarian, Italian, Japanese, The Vault Fallout-related articles Free Korean,Lithuanian, Dutch,Norwegian, P olish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish,Turkish, Chinese
English, German, Spanish,Bulgarian, D anish,Finnish, French,Croatian,Hun garian, Italian, Star Wars-related Wookieepedia Free Japanese, articles Dutch,Norwegian, P olish, Portuguese, Russian,Romanian, S lovak,Slovene,
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Swedish, Chinese English, German, Spanish, French, Czech, Danish,Greek, Persia n, Finnish, Hebrew , Hungarian,Icelandic, Italian,Lithuanian,Latvian, World of WoWWiki Dutch,Nynorsk, Bok Warcraftrelated Free mål, Polish, articles Portuguese,Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Korean, Japanese, Chinese
English, Spanish, World of French, Czech, Warcraft and Wowpedia Free Russian WarcraftUniver se -related articles
Mathematics
Site Language Description Access
Free Cut-the-knot English Mathematics related topics
Encyclopedia of Encompasses articles on the English Free Mathematics topic of mathematics
English, Articles on mathematical EqWorld Free Russian equations
Free Articles on a wide variety of MathWorld English math related topics
Site Language Description Access Free On-Line Encyclopedia of number Encyclopedia of English sequences (what is next term Integer after 1,2,4,9,20,48,115, ..., say?) Sequences
Free/GNU PlanetMath English Math related topics and articles
A project to establish a "distributed, computerized The QED repository that rigorously English Free Project represents all important, established mathematical knowledge."
Music
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Retail sites Allmusic English Music-related topics
Database of audio Free Discogs English releases
EncyclopaediaMetallum Archives of heavy English Free metal bands
Encyclopedic database LyricWiki English Free of song lyrics Articles on Israeli music MOOMA Hebrew Free and musical artists
MusicBrainz English Database of audio Free albums Bio- and discographies MusicMight English Free of rock bands
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New Gibraltar Vast progressiverock Encyclopedia of English database of bios, news Free Progressive Rock and reviews
Encyclopedia on Chinese contemporary Rock in China English underground music Free (rock, punk, metal, jazz, hiphop, etc.)
Philosophy
Site Language Description Access Encyclopedia of multilingual Topics related to the Marxism study of Marxism Free
Internet Encyclopedia Philosophy related English of Philosophy articles Free
Routledge Encyclopedia of English Philosophy articles Subscription Philosophy Stanford Encyclopedia of English Philosophy subjects Free Philosophy
Politics and history
Acces Site Language Description s
Campaigns English Political issues and campaigns Free Wikia Seeks to improve on public Congresspedia English information through articles about Free US Congress specifics Acces Site Language Description s
Cyclopaediaof Articles pertaining to science, Politica economics, and American authors. English Free l The 1899 edition is available Science online A political encyclopedia written from a dKosopedia English Free left/progressive/liberal/Democratic point of view Encyclopedia of World English Presents articles on perceived Free Problems and human problems Human Potential Articles on the history HistoryLink English Free of Washington State Arabic, English, Chinese, An academic encyclopedia on the JurisPedia Free French, concepts of law German, Spanish,Dutch
Religion and theology
Site Languag Description Acces e s Boston CollaborativeEncyclopedia English Articles on Western Free, of Western Christian theology Public Theology domain
Free, Catholic Topics relating to English Public Encyclopedia Catholicism domain Site Languag Description Acces e s ChristianCyclopedia A collection of historical and English Free theological information
Free, Articles on Christianity and Easton's Bible Dictionary English Public theology Domain Contains articles pertaining English to "the Literary, Political and Encyclopaedia Religious History, the Free Biblica Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible" Articles by Mormon academics on history and Encyclopediaof English doctrine of The Church of Free Mormonism Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Global Anabaptist English Topics relating Free Mennonite to Anabaptism and Encyclopedia Mennonites Online
Free Jewish English Topics relating to Judaism Encyclopedia
Articles on Catholicism and Free New Advent English apologetics
Punjabipedia Punjabi Entries on Sikhism
Science
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Contains articles on the Free EncyclopediaAstronautica English subject of space exploration and astronomy
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Encyclopediaof Earth Articles on the Earth and English its ecosystems Free A-to-Z of science (and technology, mathematics, Free philosophy, etc.) Encyclopediaof Science English maintained and updated on a daily basis by astronomer/author David Darling Covers astronomy, scientific biography, Free ScienceWorld English chemistry, and physics.
Like MathWorld, it is edited by Eric Weisstein.
Biology-Life science
Site Language Description Ac cess Student wiki-type database at the Animal University of Michigan English Free Diversity Web of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology.
Visual and audio ARKive English recordings of the Free world's species
Seeks to categorize all Encyclopedia of English, French 1.8 million known Free Life species on the planet
Information Erowid English about psychoactive Free substances
English, Spanish,Portuguese, French, German, FishBase Articles on fish species Free Italian, Dutch,Chinese (Simplified Han),Chinese
Site Language Description Ac cess
(Traditional Han),Greek, Swedish, Russian, Persian,Vietnamese, Thai,Lao, Hindi, Bengali
Covers different plant Flora Europaea English species Free
Covers Flora and Fauna MacroscopicObservatory English Free
Free Palaeos English Covers palaeontology
The Plant List English Covers Flora Free Seeks to create a Wikispecies English catalogue of all living Free things
Computer
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Coverage of all the topics related to Javapedia English Free Java platform