Norwegian-language online encyclopedia
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia (Store norske leksikon)
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Country
| Norway
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Language
| Norwegian
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Discipline
| non-fiction, encyclopedia
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Publisher
| Great Norwegian Encyclopedia Association (Foreningen Store norske leksikon)
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Published
| 1906
(
1906
)
?present
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Website
| snl
.no
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The
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
(
Norwegian
:
Store Norske Leksikon
, abbreviated
SNL
) is a
Norwegian-language
online
encyclopedia
.
[1]
The
online encyclopedia
is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with up to 3.5 million unique visitors per month.
[2]
Paper editions 1978?2007
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The
SNL
was created in 1978, when the two
publishing houses
Aschehoug
and
Gyldendal
merged their encyclopedias and created the company
Kunnskapsforlaget
.
[3]
Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of
Aschehoug
and
Gyldendal
, Norway's two largest, had published
Aschehougs konversasjonsleksikon
[
no
]
and
Gyldendals konversasjonsleksikon
[
no
]
, respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1906–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal).
[4]
The slump in sales for paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million
Norwegian kroner
from the foundation
Fritt Ord
in 2003. The fourth edition consisted of 16 volumes, a total of 12,000 pages and 280,000 entries.
[5]
List of paper editions
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- First edition, 1978?1981, 12 volumes. Chief editors
Olaf Kortner
,
Preben Munthe
,
Egil Tveteras
[
no
]
[6]
- Second edition, 1986?1989, 15 volumes. Chief editors
Olaf Kortner
,
Preben Munthe
,
Egil Tveteras
[
no
]
.
- Third edition, 1995?1998, 16 volumes. Chief editor
Petter Henriksen
.
- Fourth edition, 2005?2007, 16 volumes. Chief editor
Petter Henriksen
.
Online encyclopedia
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The online edition of
SNL
was launched in 2000, and had both private and institutional subscribers. The
paywall
was removed on 25 February 2009, and the
online encyclopedia
became free to use.
[7]
On 12 March 2010,
Kunnskapsforlaget
announced that they would close the online encyclopedia because of lacklustre sales and failing revenue. It was also announced that the articles would not be given to the
Wikimedia Foundation
, with chief editor
Petter Henriksen
stating that: "It is important that the people behind the articles remain visible".
[8]
In 2011, the foundations
Fritt Ord
and
Sparebankstiftelsen DNB
acquired the encyclopedia, hired
Anne Marit Godal
as the new chief editor and established a new organisation, assisted by the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
and
Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association
.
[9]
In 2014
Foreningen Store norske leksikon
('the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia Association') was established; members of the association are Norwegian universities and other non-profit organisations.
[10]
In 2016
Erik Bolstad
[
no
]
became the new chief editor.
[11]
As of 2023, the SNL has around 200,000 articles online, updated by approximately 1200 affiliated academics. The
SNL
accepts contributions from users, but all changes to the articles are verified by a topic expert before publication.
[12]
References
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- ^
About the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
(English)
- ^
SNL annual report 2022
(Norwegian)
- ^
Bakke, Sven Ove; Hobbelstad, Inger Merete; Kvalshaug, Vidar; Nilsen, Morten Stale (2012).
Norske klassikere. Bøker, filmer, musikk, radio og TV fra 1945 til i dag
(in Norwegian). Oslo: Spartacus. p. 182.
ISBN
978-82-430-0560-0
.
- ^
History of the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
(Norwegian)
- ^
Kunnskapsforlages historie
(Norwegian)
- ^
National Library of Norway: Store norske leksikon, 1978
(Norwegian)
- ^
Press release from Kunnskapsforlaget, 16.09.2008
[
dead link
]
- ^
Computerworld Norway, 12.03.2010
[
dead link
]
- ^
History of the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
(Norwegian)
- ^
About the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia Association
(Norwegian)
- ^
Journalisten.no: I 15 ar har Erik Bolstad utviklet nye tjenester i NRK. Na skal han lede et leksikon
(Norwegian)
- ^
About the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
(Norwegian)
External links
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