General
American Society for Quality http://www.asq.org/
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) www.iso.org Trados – Language Technology for your Business www.trados.com Society for Technical Communication, Twin Cities Chapter (STC) www.stctc.org American Translators Association (ATA) www.ata.org
iSixSigma – The Quality Internet www.isixsigma.com
Localisation Industry Standards Association (LISA) www.lisa.org
Federation of International Trade Associations (FITA) www.fita.org
Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) www.raps.org
Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) www.gala-global.org
The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP) www.tilponline.org
Professional Association for Localization (PAL) http://www.pal10n.net
World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org
The Association of Language Companies (ALC) www.alcus.org
U.S. Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov/
World Intellectual Property Organization http://www.wipo.org/
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation http://www.aami.org
Dictionaries
Medicine, Life Sciences:
http://www.bracesinfo.com/glossary.html Orthodontics, an English dictionary of orthodontic and dental terms
http://www.yi.com/home/EysenbachGunther/wb.htm Medical computer terminology, a German dictionary of computer-related medical and general terminology with acronyms, over 500 entries and many useful cross-links, maintained by Gunther Eysenbach
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/ The Online Medical Dictionary, a searchable English medical dictionary
http://www.medicinenet.com/ Health and disease information, follow link to English medical dictionary
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html BioTech’s searchable life sciences English dictionary with close to 4000 terms from medicine and the life sciences
http://www.ratiopharm.de/html/otc/lexikon/index.htm German medical dictionary from ratiopharm, a German manufacturer of pharmaceuticals
Chemistry, Chemical Technology, Analytics:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/beilstein/bedict1.html Beilstein German/English dictionary of organic chemistry terms, searchable in English or German
http://www.chemie.de/tools/dictionary/?language=e Science dictionary for chemistry, searchable in English and German
Internet, Computing, Software:
http://www.css.qmw.ac.uk/foreign/eng-german.htm English to German dictionary of basic computer terminology
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/msdn/newup/glossary Microsoft glossaries, bilingual dictionaries with the official translation of strings in Microsoft products (e.g. Windows 95, NT etc.), free to download
http://www.netlingo.com/ English on-line dictionary of net-related terminology
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html Searchable English on-line dictionary of computing terms (FOLDOC), with other useful links
http://www.commando.de/glossar/ Browsable on-line dictionary of Internet and computing terms (in German), free to download
General Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries:
http://www2.echo.lu/edic EURODICAUTOM dictionary, the comprehensive multilingual European Union terminology database, searchable for terms and abbreviations in various combinations of 12 source and target languages
http://www.logos.it LOGOS dictionary, extensive multilingual database with over 7 million entries in more than a 150 languages, maintained by Logos Translation Co. and continuously expanding through user input
http://www.langenscheidt.de Langenscheidt dictionary, a changing selection of at least one Langenscheidt dictionary on-line
http://dict.leo.org/ LEO dictionary, searchable database with over 170,000 entries for English and German terms, includes the new German orthography reform
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de German/English dictionary, over 110,000 entries, searchable in English and German
http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh German/English dictionary, with over 180,000 translations, searchable in English and German, can also be downloaded.
General Monolingual Dictionaries and References:
http://www.m-w.com The renowned American Merrian-Webster dictionary on the WWW
http://www.eb.com/ Encyclopedia Britannica on the WWW
http://www.thesaurus.com/? English thesaurus, search Roget’s International Thesaurus of the English language
http://www.iicm.edu/ref.m10 Meyers Lexikon – Das Wissen von A – Z, on-line version of Meyers Lexikon, searchable and browsable, in German
Indexes, Listings, Compilations of Dictionaries, Glossaries, Encyclopedias, other Databases:
http://www.onelook.com General search for entries in 454 dictionaries with over 2 million entries
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html Listings of German and other multi- and monolingual dictionaries.
http://refdesk.com/factnet.html Reference site with links to a variety of Internet resources, incl. dictionaries, databases and encyclopedias
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html An index of over 400 on-line dictionaries and glossaries in more than 130 languages
Other Special Topic Dictionaries and Glossaries:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Eoheiabbd/moviedict_e.html Multilingual, searchable and browsable film dictionary
http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/laliden/WWW/Visionary/Visionary.html English dictionary for terminology used in the study of human and animal vision, list of other vision related links
Glossaries
Medicine, Life Sciences:
http://www.mtdesk.com/frame.php?frame=glossary
MT Desk medical and surgical glossary with product specific information & links to additional information
http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html
Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/language.html Medical glossaries in seven different languages with definitions
Chemistry, Chemical Technology, Analytics:
http://www.pfa.org/glossary.html Polyurethane plastics, an English glossary and term descriptions to flexible urethane foam
Indexes, Listings, Compilations of Dictionaries, Glossaries, Encyclopedias, other Databases:
http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/hyperref.html Very useful compilation of links to common and more exotic on-line dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias, e.g. dictionary of mountain bike slang, Medieval Latin dictionary etc.
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/dict.html Links to a variety of on-line dictionaries, glossaries, thesauri, almanacs
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html An index of over 400 on-line dictionaries and glossaries in more than 130 languages
Other Special Topic Glossaries:
http://www.hds-schuh.de Shoes and leather, a German glossary of various leather types and their uses (in German, follow links to Fashion/Lexikon
