Kunnskapsforlaget
Kunnskapsforlaget is a Norwegian publisher founded in 1975 . He mainly publishes dictionaries and encyclopedias that are available both on the Internet and on paper.
Among other things, the Store norske leksikon ( Large Norwegian Lexicon; also “Store Norske” for short, SNL for short ) was published in Kunnskapsforlaget. The second edition of the Norsk biografisk leksikon was also published in ten volumes in the years 1999-2005 by the Kunnskapsforlaget publishing house. In addition, the Kunnskapsforlaget store medisinske leksikon (SML; Norwegian Large Medical Lexicon ) published a Norwegian medical lexicon in five volumes from 2006 to 2007 and published it as an online encyclopedia freely available on the Internet in 2009. The corresponding online encyclopedias, including the Norsk Kunstnerleksikon, are now supported by the Norwegian institution and the non-profit association Foreningen Store norske leksikon (Association of the Major Norwegian Lexicons) and their rights and licenses are administered.
Kunnskapsforlaget is owned by the Gyldendal publishing house. The publisher is Thomas Nygaard .