Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines/Reference

• Knowledge – familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning. Knowledge can refer to a theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. It can be implicit (as with practical skill or expertise) or explicit (as with the theoretical understanding of a subject); it can be more or less formal or systematic.
• Reference works – documents, such as scholarly papers, books, encyclopedias or periodicals (or their electronic equivalents, usually available online), to which one can refer for information.
  • Books – a book is a set of written, printed, illustrated sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. Books are used to convey knowledge and other information.
    • Great books listed in How to Read a Book
    • Great Books of the Western World
    • Harvard Classics
  • Dictionaries
    • Dictionaries by language
    • Dictionaries by number of words
    • Dictionaries by specialty
    • Online dictionaries
    • Wiktionaries
  • Encyclopedias
    • Encyclopedias by branch of knowledge
    • Encyclopedias by date
    • Encyclopedias by language
    • Online encyclopedias
      • Wikipedia – free-access, free content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Anyone who can access the site can edit almost any of its articles. Wikipedia is the sixth-most visited website and constitutes the Internet's largest and most popular general reference work.
  • General subject outlines (trees of knowledge)
    • Taxonomies (trees) of knowledge included within larger works
      • Figurative system of human knowledge (from the Encyclopédie)
      • Outline of academic disciplines
      • Outline of Knowledge (part of the Propædia of the 15th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica)
      • Outline of the knowledge of humanity
    • Subject classification systems
      • Academic classification systems
        • Fields of doctoral studies (United States)
        • Joint Academic Classification of Subjects
      • Library classification systems
        • English library classification systems
          • Bliss bibliographic classification
          • Colon classification
          • Cutter Expansive Classification
          • Library of Congress Classification
          • Dewey Decimal classes
          • Universal Decimal Classification
        • Korean Decimal Classification
        • New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries
        • Nippon Decimal Classification (Japanese)
        • Swedish library classification system