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 tion for 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 Unification Church; in part, New World English selects and rewrites certain Free
Encyclopedia Wikipedia articles to reflect Unification Church values. Probert English General interest Free
Encyclopaedia Articles are written by scholars
Scholarpedia English Free and peer-reviewed for accuracy
Biography
Site Language Description Access 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 English Biographies of mathematicians Free
Mathematics 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 19th Greek and Roman English century encyclopedia of the same Free
Antiquities name. Focuses on topics of cultural Site Language Description Access and historical Greek and Roman significance. Encyclopedia Contains articles English Free
Mythica on mythology , folklore , and religion Harpers Dictionary of Covers subje cts of classical English Free Classical antiquity
Antiquities
Culture and country-specific
Site Language Description Access Encyclopedia of Articles on the state English Free
Alabama 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 Focuses on topic relating to English Free Roman Greek and Roman geography
Geography English, plans for a Topics on the inf luence of Encyclopædia future Persian versi the Iranian peoples throughout Free
Iranica on history Encyclopedi a 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 English
Library essential Jewish topics
Middle East and North Looklex English (based African topics (known as Free
Encyclopaedia in Norway ) 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 Bhumibol Free English Adulyadej Te Ara: The The New Zealand government Encyclopedia of English, Māori site with content on the Free
New Zealand country Encyc lopedia of English Ukraine related articles Free
Ukraine and Ukrainian Encyclopedia Articles on Virginia 's history English Free
Virginia and culture English-Turkish sentence-
Yeminlisozluk Turkish based corpus-encyclopedia of Free general interest (Sözlük)
Pop culture and fiction
Site Language Description Access Focuses on articles pertaining to Pokémon, including the
Bulbapedia English Free Pokémon moves, TV shows and movies. Don Markstein's Focuses on articles pertaining English Free
Toonopedia to print and animated cartoons Satirical NSFW wiki mostly Encyclopedia covering Internet memes ; English Free
Dramatica claims to be based on the Devil's Dictionary . Contains articles pertaining to
Fringepedia English the American television Free drama Fringe . Collection of sometimes humorous encyclopedia
H2G2 English articles, based on Douglas Free Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . English, Dutch , French, Contains articles pertaining to German, Hebrew ,
Heroes Wiki the American television Free Italian, Portuguese , drama Heroes . Spanish, Swedish ,Tu rkish English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Contains articles pertaining to
Lostpedia Free Japanese, Dutch , Poli the hit drama Lost sh ,Portuguese , Russian, Chinese English, Bulgarian ,
Memory Alpha Chinese, Czech ,Dutc Articles about Star Trek Free h, Esperanto , French, Site Language Description Access German, Polish ,Portu guese , Russian, Serbian , Spanish, Swedish The Encyclopedia English Authors, books, films of SF Free of Science Fiction The Rocklopedia Articles on fake bands from English Free
Fakebandica popular entertainment Articles related to the devices English, German, and conventions that a fiction Esperanto, Spanish, writer can reasonably rely on
TV Tropes French, Norwegian, Free as being present in the Finnish, Swedish, Al audience members' minds and Bhed, Quenya 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,
Wookieepedia Star Wars -related articles Free Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian , P olish , Portuguese, Russian, Romanian , S lovak ,Slovene , Site Language Description Access Swedish, Chinese English, German, Spanish, French, Czech, Danish, Greek , Persia n, Finnish, Hebrew , Hungarian, Icelandic , Italian, Lithuanian ,La World of Warcraft -related
WoWWiki tvian , Free articles Dutch, Nynorsk , Bok mål , Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese , Russian, Slovak , Korean, Japanese, Chinese English, Spanish, World of
Wowpedia French, Czech, Warcraft and Warcraft Univer Free Russian 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 repository that rigorously
The QED Project English Free represents all important, established mathematical knowledge."
Music
Site Language Description Access Retail sites
Allmusic English Music-related topics
Free
Discogs English Database of audio releases
Encyclopaedia Archives of heavy English Free
Metallum metal bands Encyclopedic database of
LyricWiki English Free song lyrics Articles on Israeli music
MOOMA Hebrew Free and musical artists
MusicBrainz English Database of audio albums Free Bio- and discographies of
MusicMight English Free rock bands Site Language Description Access New Gibraltar Vast progressive Encyclopedia of English rock database of bios, news Free
Progressive Rock and reviews Encyclopedia on Chin ese contemporary underground
Rock in China English Free music (rock, punk, metal, jazz, hiphop, etc.)
Philosophy
Site Language Description Access Encyclopedia of multi- Topics related to the Free
Marxism lingual study of Marxism Internet Ency clopedia Philosophy related English Free of Philosophy articles Routledge Encyclopedia of English Philosophy articles Subscription
Philosophy Stanford Encyclopedia English Philosophy subjects Free of Philosophy
Politics and history
Access Site Language Description
Campaigns English Political issues and campaigns Free
Wikia Seeks to improve on public
Congresspedia English information through articles Free about US Congress specifics Access Site Language Description
Articles pertaining to science, Cyclopaedia economics, and American authors. of Political English Free 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 Presents articles on perceived Problems and English Free 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 Language Description Access Boston Collaborative Free, Encyclopedia English Articles on Western Christian theology Public of Western domain
Theology Free, Catholic English Topics relating to Catholicism Public
Encyclopedia domain Site Language Description Access Christian A collection of historical and theological English Free
Cyclopedia information Free, Easton's Bible English Articles on Christianity and theology Public
Dictionary Domain Contains articles pertaining to "the Encyclopaedia Literary, Political and Religious History, English Free
Biblica the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible" Articles by Mormon Encyclopedia academics on history and doctrine of The of English Free Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Mormonism Saints (LDS Church). Global Anabaptist Topics relating Mennonite English Free to Anabaptism and Mennonites Encyclopedia
Online Free Jewish English Topics relating to Judaism
Encyclopedia
Free
New Advent English Articles on Catholicism and apologetics
Punjabipedia Punjabi Entries on Sikhism
Science
Site Language Description Access Free Encyclopedia Contains articles on the subject English
Astronautica of space exploration and astronomy
Site Language Description Access Encyclopedia Articles on the Earth and its English Free of Earth ecosystems A-to-Z of science (and technology, mathematics, philosophy, etc.) Encyclopedia English maintained and updated on a daily Free of Science basis by as tronomer/author David Darling Covers astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics.
ScienceWorld English Free Like MathWorld , it is edited by Eric Weisstein .
Biology-Life science
Site Language Description Access Student wiki-type database at the University of Michigan of Animal English animal natural history, Free
Diversity Web distribution, classification, and conservation biology. Visual and audio recordings of
ARKive English Free the world's species Seeks to categorize all 1.8 Encyclopedia of English, French million known species on the Free
Life planet Information
Erowid English Free about psychoactive substances English, Spanish, Portuguese , French, German,
FishBase Articles on fish species Free Italian, Dutch ,Chinese (Simplified Han) ,Chinese Site Language Description Access (Traditional Han) ,Greek , Swedish , Russian, Persian ,Vietna mese , Thai ,Lao , Hindi , Bengali Covers different plant species
Flora Europaea English Free
Covers Flora and Fauna Macroscopic English Free
Observatory
Free
Palaeos English Covers palaeontology
The Plant List English Covers Flora Free Seeks to create a catalogue of
Wikispecies English Free all living things
Computer
Langu Site Description Access age Coverage of all topics related to
Javapedia English Free the Java platform