Editing Nationalencyklopedin

{{Short description|Comprehensive contemporary Swedish-language encyclopedia}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = {{Lang|sv|Nationalencyklopedin}} [[File:Nationalencyklopedin logo.svg|center|100px]]<small>Ett uppslagsverk på vetenskaplig grund utarbetat på initiativ av Statens kulturråd</small>
| image = Nationalencyklopedin.jpg
| caption = Volumes 1–10 of 20, 1989–1996
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| country = Sweden
| language = [[Swedish language|Swedish]]
| subject = General
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| isbn = 91-70-24619-X
| oclc = 185256473
| website = {{URL|https://www.ne.se/info/}}
}}

'''{{Lang|sv|Nationalencyklopedin}}''' ({{IPA|sv|natɧʊˈnɑ̂ːlɛnsʏklʊpɛˌdiːn|lang}}; "The National Encyclopedia" in English), abbreviated '''NE''', is a comprehensive contemporary [[Swedish language|Swedish-language]] [[encyclopedia]] with several hundred thousand articles. It is available both online and via a printed version.

==History==
The project was initiated in 1980 when a government committee suggested that negotiations be initiated with various [[publisher]]s. A loan from the [[Government of Sweden]] of 17 million [[Swedish krona]], which was repaid by December 1990, provided funding.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://uppslag.psilander.se/ne.htm | title=Svenska uppslagsverk: Nationalencyklopedin | language=sv}}</ref>

In August 1985, {{ill|Bra Böcker|sv}} in [[Höganäs]] became the publisher responsible for the project. The project specifications were for a modern reference work based on a [[science|scientific]] [[paradigm]] incorporating [[gender]] and [[natural environment|environment]]al issues.

Pre-orders for the work were unprecedented; before the first volume was published in December 1989, 54,000 customers had ordered the encyclopedia. The last volume came out in 1996, with three supplemental volumes in 2000. 160,000 copies had been sold as of 2004.<ref>{{Citation |title=Nationalencyklopedin |date=2021-07-06 |url=http://snl.no/Nationalencyklopedin |work=[[Store norske leksikon]] |language=nb |access-date=2022-06-08}}</ref>

Associated with the {{Lang|sv|Nationalencyklopedin}} project are also:
*''NE:s Ordbok'', a [[dictionary]] in three volumes (1995–1996)
*''NE:s Årsband'', complementary volumes concerning current events and fast 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 data|digital]] form of the encyclopedia was released on six [[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, such as a Swedish–English dictionary.

In 2018, after a decision to remove the authors' names from the [[byline]] of online articles, [[Sveriges Television|''SVT'']] reported the encyclopedia may be forced to remove thousands of articles due to copyright infringement unless the authors' names are added back.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2018-02-18 |title=NE kan tvingas ta bort artiklar |language=sv |work=[[SVT Nyheter]] |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/ne-kan-tvingas-ta-bort-artiklar |access-date=2022-06-08}}</ref>

==See also==
*''[[Nordisk familjebok]]'' (1876–1957)
*[[Swedish Wikipedia]]
*[[List of online encyclopedias]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.ne.se/ {{Lang|sv|Nationalencyklopedin}}] - Official site (in Swedish)
*[http://uppslag.psilander.se/ne.htm ''Svenska uppslagsverk''] - Christofer Psilander's comprehensive bibliography on Swedish encyclopedias

[[Category:Swedish encyclopedias]]
[[Category:General encyclopedias]]
[[Category:Swedish online encyclopedias]]
[[Category:1989 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:20th-century encyclopedias]]
[[Category:21st-century encyclopedias]]