Nationalencyklopedin
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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
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
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).
- Store norske leksikon(in Norwegian Bokmål), 2021-07-06, retrieved 2022-06-08
- 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