Music Encyclopedia

• Music encyclopedias focus on various topics about music. Some subjects in different types of music encyclopedias include country music, jazz music, musicians from a certain era and musical terminology. For example, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz is a general encyclopedia that explores jazz in-depth with subjects such as styles of jazz, women in jazz poetry and movies with jazz. It refers to more than 2,000 essays and biographies on people, places and things where jazz has made an impact. Another music encyclopedia is the International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. This is a subject-base encyclopedia provides bibliography women composers and their various works, such as Beth Anderson, Eleanor Cory and Sheree Clements.
  
  

Medical Encyclopedias

• Medical encyclopedias focus on certain types of medical diseases, conditions and procedures. For example, the ADAM Medical Encyclopedia provides more than 4,000 essays about medical tests, diseases, surgeons and symptoms. In addition, Adamimages.com has an extensive library of medical images housing an approximately 30,000 accurate pictures. Also, the Gundersen Lutheran Online Medical Encyclopedia is a general medical encyclopedia with broad information pertaining to various subjects such as diseases, pediatrics, alternative medicine, orthopedics and surgeries.
  
  

Geographic Encyclopedias

• Geographic encyclopedias focus on particular locations across the world, such as cities, states, countries and continents. The Nevada Humanities creates the Online Nevada Encyclopedia that explores various topics about the state of Nevada. Some subjects the multimedia encyclopedia explores include politics, culture, economy, people, landscape and events. In addition, the Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago is a collection of thousands of historical topics that include maps, photographs, articles and newspapers prints about Chicago.
  
  

Philosophy Encyclopedias

• These encyclopedias typically contain information on philosophers, works of philosophers and various areas of philosophy. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a free, peer-reviewed academic reference covering subjects such as metaphysics, logic, science and epistemology. Another philosophy reference includes the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University maintains this free encyclopedia of philosophy online. Some information available includes articles about Descartes, Heraclitus and Buddha.