The World Atlas of National Online Encyclopedias
Welcome to WANOE
The World Atlas of National Online Encyclopedias (WANOE) is a database of the world's national and universal encyclopedias. This website provides information about online encyclopedias from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
WANOE is designed to organize information about national online encyclopedias as reference sources of general knowledge in different languages. Its goal is to serve as a useful research tool for the study of encyclopedias and encyclopedia publishing.
Why does WANOE focus only on online encyclopedias and not include many world-renowned national reference works with a long history? Today, digital encyclopedias have largely replaced print compendia of knowledge. They provide up-to-date information and function as relevant and competitive media outlets. The future of the encyclopedia field lies in the development of online encyclopedias worldwide as politically independent platforms that grant access to authoritative, trustworthy, and reliable information for people of different languages and cultures, while also countering misinformation and disinformation. We hope that the World Atlas of National Online Encyclopedias will contribute to this advancement.
Publisher: Institute of Encyclopedic Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Published in 2022, during the Russian war against Ukraine. The contributors are grateful to the Armed Forces of Ukraine for providing the security that made this work possible.
Getting Started
The WANOE is a platform organized into continent-related chapters. On the website, information about online encyclopedias is presented in a mapping format. This database is not fully comprehensive, as we do not yet have complete information about national or universal digital encyclopedias from every country.
Within the chapters, you can explore information about a national or universal encyclopedia by clicking on the desired area of the map. When you click on a country, you will see the title of the encyclopedia along with an active link to its website.
Terms of use
The content of the WANOE is published under a Creative Commons Attribution License International CC-BY. It permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite
We recommend that you cite (APA):
Zhelezniak, M. & Ishchenko, O. (Eds). (2022-2025). The World Atlas of National Online Encyclopedias. Kyiv: The NASU Institute of Encyclopedic Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.37068/b/wanoe