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[[Image:Nationalencyklopedin.jpg|thumb|''Nationalencyklopedin'', volumes 1-10 of 20, 1989-1996]]
[[Image:Nationalencyklopedin2.jpg|thumb|"Bil" (automobile), from ''Nationalencyklopedin'']]
'''Nationalencyklopedin''' ('''NE''') is the most comprehensive contemporary [[Swedish language]] [[encyclopedia]], initiated by a [[Government of Sweden|government]] grant. The printed version consists of 20 volumes with 172,000 articles; the [[Internet]] version is slightly larger (260,000 articles as of June 2005).
The project was born in [[1980]], when a government committee suggested that negotiations be initiated with various [[publisher]]s. This stage was finished in August [[1985]], when [[Bra Böcker]] in [[Höganäs]] became the publisher responsible for the project. The project specification showed demands for a modern reference work based on a [[science|scientific]] [[paradigm]] as well as bringing out [[gender]] and [[natural environment|environment]]al issues.
The anticipations on the work were unprecedented; before the first volume was published in December [[1989]], the encyclopedia had been ordered by 54,000 customers. The last volume came in [[1996]], supplemented with three additional volumes in [[2000]].
Associated with the Nationalencyklopedin project are also:
*''NE:s Ordbok'', a [[dictionary]] in three volumes ([[1995]]-[[1996]])
*''NE:s Årsband'', complemental volumes of current events and often 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 6 [[CD-ROM]]s (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, ''e.g.'', a Swedish-[[English language|English]] dictionary.
==See also==
*[[Nordisk familjebok]] ([[1876]]-[[1957]])
*[[Swedish Wikipedia]]
*[[List of online encyclopedias]]
==External links==
*[http://www.ne.se/ Nationalencyklopedin] - Official site (in Swedish)
*[http://uppslag.psilander.se/ne.htm Svenska uppslagsverk] - Christofer Psilander's comprehensive bibliography on Swedish encyclopedias
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