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Lightning and thunder explanations in encyclopedias – from ancient Greece to Wikipedia [PDF]

open access: yesHistory of Geo- and Space Sciences
After a brief introduction to encyclopedias, the explanation of lightning and thunder in well-known encyclopedias, from the works of Greek philosophers to encyclopedias of modern physics, is examined.
K. Schlegel
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Ukrainian Electronic Encyclopedias

open access: yesStudia Lexicographica, 2018
This article describes contemporary Ukrainian electronic encyclopedias, proposes their general review and characterizes their main types and the thematic and typological peculiarities of both online encyclopedic products and electronic versions of ...
Yaroslav Pylynskyi
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What Future for Traditional Encyclopedias in the Age of Wikipedia? [PDF]

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014
The launch and rapid domination of Wikipedia as a reference tool for the Internet was as dramatic as it was unexpected. Wikipedia broke so many of the rules of reference publishing, which, even if not formally codified, had been widely accepted for many ...
Michael Upshall
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Self-Supervised Chinese Ontology Learning from Online Encyclopedias

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2014
Constructing ontology manually is a time-consuming, error-prone, and tedious task. We present SSCO, a self-supervised learning based chinese ontology, which contains about 255 thousand concepts, 5 million entities, and 40 million facts.
Fanghuai Hu, Zhiqing Shao, Tong Ruan
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Encyclopedias and Nationalism in Denmark:A Study of the Reception of Three Encyclopedias, from Print to Digital [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The publishing of major encyclopaedias in Denmark seldom went unnoticed. Once a publication had started, every single instalment, volume and other anniversaries were reviewed or mentioned in the nationwide newspapers and several aspects were brought up ...
Simonsen, Maria Sofie; id_orcid
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Stranded Encyclopedias in Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Exploring the Rise of Alphabetical Encyclopedism

open access: yes, 2021
For a long time, histories of the rise of the modern encyclopedia were mainly histories of publications: chronologies of large-scale, alphabetically organized reference works, successfully completed in one country after another, from the late 1600s ...
Linn Holmberg, Holmberg, Linn,
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The Transcription Factor Encyclopedia [PDF]

open access: yesGenome Biology, 2012
AbstractHere we present the Transcription Factor Encyclopedia (TFe), a new web-based compendium of mini review articles on transcription factors (TFs) that is founded on the principles of open access and collaboration. Our consortium of over 100 researchers has collectively contributed over 130 mini review articles on pertinent human, mouse and rat TFs.
Yusuf, Dimas   +114 more
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Dictionaries and encyclopedias of suicide

open access: yes, 2023
There are some studies that analyze definitions of the term “suicide” in academic works, as well as in generalist dictionaries and encyclopedias in several languages, but there still seems to be no investigation focused on specialized dictionaries and ...
Roger Vinícius da Silva Costa
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Online encyclopedias: current status and prospects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Проанлізовано зарубіжний та вітчизняний досвід функціонування онлайн енциклопедій. Наразі вітчизняні фахівці, запозичивши досвід зарубіжних колег щодо створення онлайн енциклопедій, тільки почали їх створювати.
Носенко, Ю.Г.   +2 more
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The Ukrainian Encyclopedia of Religious Studies: history of the case and publishing trouble

open access: yesЕнциклопедичний Вісник України, 2020
The article reviews the Ukrainian Encyclopedia of Religious Studies that will be published soon. The encyclopedic work was prepared by the academic team 20 years ago.
Anatolii Kolodnyi, Liudmyla Fylypovych
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