Portal:General works
Collective works are the compilation of the individual works of a number of authors.
Example: Dictionary of National Biography (1885—)
Series are serial works, often with different authors but explicitly linked together.
Encyclopedias are works that summarise other branches of knowledge (or the different aspects of a specific area of knowledge).
Examples: The American Cyclopædia (1879), Encyclopædia Britannica (1911), Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).
Dictionaries and general reference can be works that list words, with meaning or other context-appropriate information, but also includes simple, sorted reference texts, such as biographical dictionaries, that follow a similar format.
Examples: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (Jehiel Keeler Hoyt & Kate Louise Roberts, 1922), A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms (Gilbert H. Lawson, 1924), Easton's Bible Dictionary (Matthew George Easton, 1897).
Reference works are works to which a person can refer to quickly and easily find facts and information.
Examples: Twelve edible mushrooms of the United States (Thomas Taylor, 1894), The New Student's Reference Work (Chandler B. Beach & Frank Morton McMurry, 1914).
Indexes are sorted lists of bibliographic information. They are usually limited to a specific form, type, format or subject.
Museums are institutions that conserve, and often display, a collection of artifacts.
Child portal: British Museum
Collectors and collecting are people and their occupation, as either a profession or a hobby, that involves finding, acquiring and storing items of interest.
Newspapers are periodicals that contain information and opinion about current and recent events.
Child portals: Bath Georgian newspaper • The New York Times • Obama Administration Press Briefings • Press releases • Pulitzers
Periodicals are publications issued on a regular basis, such as magazines and scientific journals.
Child portals: Amazing Stories • The New Yorker • Niles' Weekly Register • Notes and Queries • Popular Science Monthly • Punch • Time • Vanity Fair • Weird Tales
Academies and learned societies are organisations that exist to support and promote academic disciplines or professions; either specialising in one or covering a group of related fields). This covers societies, associations, congresses and conferences.
Child portals: Madras Literary Society • Royal Asiatic Society
Yearbooks are annual publications in some countries that commemorate the past year of a school and its pupils.
Almanacs are annual publications that list information, data and useful facts.
Directories are sorted lists of names and information about specific types of people, business or other organisations.
History of scholarship and learning
Child portals: Rede Lecture • Romanes Lecture
The Humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition; distinct from the empirical methods of science.
- External links
- Class A on Project Gutenberg
- Call number A on the Online Books Page