compendia
Gathered knowledge volumes
Compendia is the plural of compendium—a comprehensive collection or summary of information on a subject.
A compendium gathers essential material into one place: medical compendia, a compendium of folk remedies.
The Latin plural compendia appears in formal or academic contexts, while compendiums is equally correct in general usage.
Curated selection collections
- compilationsGathered sets of works
- archivesStored historical documents
- repositoriesPlaces for storing things
- assemblagesGrouped collections of things
libraries · selections · gatherings · omnibuses · treasuries · corpora · miscellanies · aggregations
Condensed versions of documents
- digestsProcesses food chemically
- synopsesCondensed accounts of content
- overviewsBrief general surveys
- condensationsCompressed versions or fog-like deposits
abridgements · epitomes · précis · outlines · briefs · summations · recaps · distillations
Multi-volume knowledge collections
- handbooksCompact reference volumes
- manualsInstructional reference documents
- guidesThose who show directions
- directoriesLists of names, contacts
catalogues · indexes · atlases · thesauri · glossaries · bibliographies · almanacs · databases
Formal scholarly compositions
- dissertationsExtended academic research documents
- monographsScholarly single-topic publications
- studiesLearns through examination
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
findings · documentation · reports · analyses · commentaries · annotations · essays · papers
anthologies
Curated selection collections
- compilationsGathered sets of works
- archivesStored historical documents
- repositoriesPlaces for storing things
assemblages · libraries · selections · gatherings · omnibuses · treasuries · corpora · miscellanies · aggregations · accumulations
abstracts
Condensed versions of documents
condensations · abridgements · epitomes · précis · outlines · briefs · summations · recaps · distillations · surveys
encyclopedias
Multi-volume knowledge collections
- handbooksCompact reference volumes
- manualsInstructional reference documents
- guidesThose who show directions
directories · catalogues · indexes · atlases · thesauri · glossaries · bibliographies · almanacs · databases · lexicons
treatises
Formal scholarly compositions
- dissertationsExtended academic research documents
- monographsScholarly single-topic publications
- studiesLearns through examination
research · findings · documentation · reports · analyses · commentaries · annotations · essays · papers · investigations
- reference worksencyclopedia, encyclopedias, handbook, dictionaries, reference book
- referencesreference, references, dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas
- ancient scienceAristotle, Plato, Ptolemy, Galen, Pythagoras
- reference booksdictionary, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri
- Eastern textsBuddhist texts, Islamic texts, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads
compendiamonographs
Scholarly single-topic publications
dissertations · treatises · case studies · deep dives · essays