Links and Resources

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Dictionaries

• Online English Dictionaries

• Online Science Dictionaries

• Online Dictionaries in Other Languages

Resources

• Online Writing Resources

• LaTeX Resources

• Online Science Resource Sites

• English as a Second Language (ESL) Resources

Other

• Magazines/Journals

• Favorite Search Engines

Online English Dictionaries [Top]

• Encarta World English Dictionary - Not a specialist scientific dictionary but contains an enormous vocabulary of technical and scientific words.

• yourDictionary.com - Site uses the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as its basic source for words. Contains links to many specialist online science dictionaries.

• Roget's Thesaurus

Online Science Dictionaries [Top]

• Our Specialist Science Dictionaries Page - A comprehensive list of online dictionaries and glossaries in a large number of fields.

Online Dictionaries in Other Languages [Top]

• Diccionarios.com - Online service offering a Spanish dictionary and bilingual Spanish-English and Spanish-French dictionaries.

• Multilingual Medical Terms - Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages. 

• English-German Medical Dictionary

• English-German Chemistry Dictionary

Online Writing Resources [Top]

• A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors (NASA)
• The Internet Grammar of English - Site from University College, London that is an excellent resource on English Grammar.
• International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) - Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication 

Online LaTeX Resources [Top]

• Getting Started with LaTeX

• LaTeX help 1.1

Online Science Resource Sites [Top]

• Science.komm - An excellent site with links to a large number of online scientific resources. Highly recommended as a starting point when searching for science-related content on the Internet.

• SciCentral - Provides some useful links and information about companies, jobs, databases and journals. It is part of the scientific e-commerce site SciQuest.com.

English as a Second Language (ESL) Resources [Top]

• About.com ESL home page - Features links to a variety of resources for people who use English as a second language.

• False Friends - Links to lists of 'false friends' (words in different languages that sound similar but have different meanings) for English-German, English-Spanish and English-French. 

Magazines/Journals [Top]

• Nature, The International Journal of Science
• New Scientist
• Science
• Scientific American

Favorite Search Engines [Top]

• Google - A reliable search engine that has one of the smartest algorithms for ranking sites.