Nationalencyklopedin
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Language | Swedish |
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Subject | General |
Publication place | Sweden |
ISBN | 91-70-24619-X |
OCLC | 185256473 |
Website | www |
Nationalencyklopedin (Swedish: [natɧʊˈnɑ̂ːlɛnsʏklʊpɛˌdiːn]; "The National Encyclopedia" in English), abbreviated NE, is a comprehensive contemporary Swedish-language encyclopedia with several hundred thousand articles. It is available both online and via a printed version.
History
The project was initiated in 1980 when a government committee suggested that negotiations be initiated with various publishers. A loan from the Government of Sweden of 17 million Swedish krona, which was repaid by December 1990, provided funding.[1]
In August 1985, Bra Böcker in Höganäs became the publisher responsible for the project. The project specifications were for a modern reference work based on a scientific paradigm incorporating gender and environmental issues.
Pre-orders for the work were unprecedented; before the first volume was published in December 1989, 54,000 customers had ordered the encyclopedia. The last volume came out in 1996, with three supplemental volumes in 2000. 160,000 copies had been sold as of 2004.[2]
Associated with the Nationalencyklopedin project are also:
- NE:s Ordbok, a dictionary in three volumes (1995–1996)
- NE:s Årsband, complementary volumes concerning current events and fast changing information distributed annually since 1997
- NE:s Sverigeatlas, an atlas of Sweden (1998)
- NE:s Världsatlas, a world atlas (1998)
- NE-spelet, a quiz game with 8,000 questions (1999)
In 1997, the first digital form of the encyclopedia was released on six CD-ROMs (later on DVD as well), and in 2000 as an Internet subscription service. The online version contains the dictionary as well as an updated version of the original encyclopedia. It has 356,000 entries, 183,000 of which are encyclopedic articles. The service has been completed with several features not available in the printed version, such as a Swedish–English dictionary.
In 2018, after a decision to remove the authors' names from the byline of online articles, SVT reported the encyclopedia may be forced to remove thousands of articles due to copyright infringement unless the authors' names are added back.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Svenska uppslagsverk: Nationalencyklopedin" (in Swedish).
- ^ "Nationalencyklopedin", Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian Bokmål), 2021-07-06, retrieved 2022-06-08
- ^ "NE kan tvingas ta bort artiklar". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). 2018-02-18. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
External links
- Nationalencyklopedin - Official site (in Swedish)
- Svenska uppslagsverk - Christofer Psilander's comprehensive bibliography on Swedish encyclopedias
- CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv)
- CS1 Norwegian Bokmål-language sources (nb)
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles needing additional references from February 2016
- All articles needing additional references
- Wikipedia articles in need of updating from August 2015
- All Wikipedia articles in need of updating
- Articles with multiple maintenance issues
- Articles containing Swedish-language text
- Pages with Swedish IPA
- Swedish encyclopedias
- National encyclopedias
- Swedish online encyclopedias
- 1989 non-fiction books
- 20th-century encyclopedias
- 21st-century encyclopedias