- The Macrothesaurus for Information Processing in the field of Economic and Social Development represents a continuation of the combined efforts of many organisations over a period of almost 30 years to create a common vocabulary to facilitate the indexing, retrieval and exchange of development-related information. The Macrothesaurus comprises descriptors (keywords) designed for indexing books and documents covering the field of economic and social development.
The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation which includes subject terms for the following areas of knowledge: education, science, culture, social and human sciences, information and communication, and politics, law and economics. It also includes the names of countries and groupings of countries: political, economic, geographic, ethnic and religious, and linguistic groupings.
The UNESCO Thesaurus database can be browsed via this website in two ways: The Larousse dictionaries (English<>Spanish) are available free of charge and comprise over 100 000 words and phrases, 130 000 translations, 50 000 audio files to aid pronunciation, Proverbs, sayings and idiomatic expressions, 150 cultural and historical notes and also include: conjugation tables for every verb.
The Corpus del Español by Davies, Mark. (2002-) (100 million words, 1200s-1900s). This website allows you to quickly and easily search more than 100 million words in more than 20,000 Spanish texts from the 1200s to the 1900s. The interface allows you to search for exact words or phrases, wildcards, lemmas, part of speech, or any combinations of these.
The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is the foremost international textbook of medicine. Unrivalled in its coverage of the scientific aspects and clinical practice of internal medicine and its subspecialties, it is a fixture in the offices and wards of physicians around the world.
Search Engine Colossus is an international directory of Search Engines., giving you links to search engines from the USA, EU countries, Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Brazil, Argentina …
It first went online in 1998 and it has over 3550 listings from 310 countries and territories around the world!
Gain quick, efficient access to the search engines of the country of your choice with Search Engine Colossus.
The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is the foremost international textbook of medicine. Unrivalled in its coverage of the scientific aspects and clinical practice of internal medicine and its subspecialties, it is a fixture in the offices and wards of physicians around the world.
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balanced corpus of American English. It was created by Mark Davies of Brigham Young University in 2008, and it is now used by tens of thousands of users every month (linguists, teachers, translators, and other researchers). The corpus contains more than 410 million words of text and is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.
EuroVoc is a multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU, the European Parliament in particular. It contains terms in 22 EU languages. The aim of the thesaurus is to provide the information management and dissemination services with a coherent indexing tool for the effective management of their documentary resources and to enable users to carry out documentary searches using controlled vocabulary.
Ngram Viewer is a Google creation in association with the Encyclopedia Britannica, scientists from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is a database of 500 billion words contained in 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian
With Linguee, you can search many millions of bilingual texts for words and expressions. Linguee is used like a search engine. You search for a word or a phrase, and you find pairs of sentences that contain the word or the phrase as an exact or similar match..
The Linguist List is a forum where academic linguists can discuss linguistic issues and exchange linguistic information.
PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource
ARL is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries at comprehensive, research-extensive institutions in the US and Canada that share similar research missions, aspirations, and achievements.
El Dr. Fernando Navarro nos invitó a visitar el sitio de Dicciomed, es un maravilloso diccionario en español dedicado a términos médicos y biológicos. Los términos se estudian desde un punto de vista histórico y etimológico. El diccionario consiste de tres secciones principales entre las que se puede navegar de forma interactiva, una, la principal, de términos médico-biológicos, otra de los lexemas que conforman esos términos desde un punto de vista etimológico y una tercera de sufijos. Está coordinado por Francisco Cortés Gabaudan, profesor de la USAL.
Check it out regularly as we will be adding more every week …
