The Bodleian Library
Purdue University Library
Rhodes College Library
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Library of Congress
The Virtual Linguistics Library of Eastern Michigan University.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Search Systems - Largest Free Public Records Database Collection. Search over 2376 free public records databases across the U.S.

Glossarist.com, the only searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries online. Its award-winning directory is comprehensive and exhaustive, covering hundreds of topics.

ProZ.com's KudoZ system ... works like a dictionary, only your fellow translators function as the dictionary! Submit your terminology question, and fellow translators will answer it almost immediately.
WordNet, a gigantic online thesaurus.
Merriam-Webster Online
The Exploding Dictionary
The Internet Pilot to Terminology, Kurt Pauwels' terminology database offering terminologies for many different fields.
The Dictionary of Difficult Words
CSEN Global List of Special Dictionaries
YourDictionary.com, a very good portal for dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in English and many other languages.
Encyberpedia Glossaries
EURODICAUTOM - my all-time, hands-down personal favorite online word search engine. The multilingual terminological database of the European Commission's Translation Service.
Index of Online Dictionaries
Lexicate.com, Matt Brett's collection of specialized dictionaries, with 86 languages represented.
The Internet Dictionary Project
Language Dictionaries and Translators
The Language Hub
The Linguist List of Dictionaries
LOGOS Dictionary
OneLook Dictionaries
Pedro's Dictionaries
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
El Diccionario Latinoamericano - a good source for Latin American regionalisms.
Glossary of The Foreign Trade Information System of the OAS in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
MedSpanish, a great Spanish medical terminology site for translators and health care professionals.
Dictionnaire Francophone En Ligne
Le Grand Dictionnaire Terminologique - Another excellent French/English online dictionary.
A Swiss list of bilingual electronic dictionaries in French, German, Italian, English, Spanish, and other languages.
Carlos Ben-Ari and Hector Gayón's list of links to glossaries and dictionaries, mostly Spanish/English, their language pair.
Canada's Hansard converted into a bitexte with a search engine. According to one translator, it has "saved my skin a few times."
Notisnet's online dictionary links. Full of specialized and general English-language dictionaries and reference sources.
Randy Burns' HUGE list of specialized dictionaries, glossaries, and encyclopediae, mostly in English.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, an excellent reference in English for figures and movements in the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Whatis.com, The Information Technology Encyclopedia, in English.
Microsoft glossaries
Language Automation, Inc.'s dictionaries list. Contains dictionaries in many different languages, including languages of limited diffusion.
Lexicool: Directory of Translation Dictionaries. Has over 500 links to dictionaries and glossaries.

American Translators Association (ATA)
Spanish Language Division of the American Translators Association
National Association of Judiciary Interpreters & Translators (NAJIT)
Atlanta Association of Interpreters & Translators (AAIT)
Literary Translators' Association of Canada
Carolina Association of Interpreters & Translators
Florida Chapter of ATA (FLATA)
Southern California Area Translators & Interpreters Association (SCATIA)
Northern California Translators Association (NCTA)
National Capital Area Chapter of ATA (NCATA)
Ordre des Traducteurs et Interprètes Agréés du Québec (OTIAQ)
Fédération International des Traducteurs/International Federation of Translators (FIT)
European Society for Translation Studies (EST)
Association Internationale des Interprètes de Conférence/International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC)
Institute of Translation & Interpreting (ITI)
National Center For Interpretation, Testing, Research, and Policy (NCITRP)

LinguistFinder.com is a free registration service for escort interpreters, language instructors, and translators.
English Job Maze is a ESL/EFL job site that includes a lot of free TESL industy-related info for teachers and translators, including 'Countries @ a Glance,' a comprehensive TESL guide to pay, taxes, visas, etc, in 50 of the world's most popular teaching destinations.
ESLworldwide.com provides the latest language training jobs and recruits instructors in all languages for language training schools all over the world.
ESLEmployment.com is a completely free job site for ESL employers and job seekers.
Spanish Medical Translations (a division of ACR Systems, Inc.)
Betranslated.com is not actually an agency or a job site, but a network of freelance translators specializing in English, French, Dutch (Flemish), Spanish and German translation services.
ASAP QA Localization, Traductions - Localisation - Internationalisation - DTP et Autres Services
TranslationDirectory.com is a portal for freelance translators which features work at home opportunities, jobs for linguists, an agencies database, translation resources, and many localization, editing, typesetting, DTP and other freelance opportunities.
Infomarex
WordZone.com
Aquarius
ProZ.com
TranslationCity.com
eLance.com
Freejob.com
Mondus.com
Workexchange.com
JobSwarm.com
TranslationZone.com
TranslationMasters.com
Translators On the Web
Spanish Translation
eLocale.com
Smarterwork.com
Freetimejobs.com
Atlantic International Translators
Universal Dialog
Lucyol Services de Traduction
BERLITZ Global
TransPerfect
Trans-Email, Inc.
Translators' Consortium
Glenn's Guide to Translation Agencies, a free online list of reputable translation agencies, available for downloading.
JobNext Career Network: Provides job search, resume and job posting services.
Servicedepot.com, where you can register your translation services either in the form of a basic listing (free) or an advanced listing with more bells and whistles.

TranslatorTips.com, home of "tranfree," the largest e-zine for translators on the Internet. Chock-full of good, solid advice on the business aspects of freelance translation.
Language Today Journal
The Translation Journal
The Tower of Babel, a "multilingual, multicultural community of arts and ideas."

CourtInterpreter.net - an online community for court interpreters and legal translators.
XLation.com - More Than Words
Syllabos.com - Il Portale Linguistico Italiano: Servizi Informatici e Linguistici
WWW Search Interfaces for Translators - Search techniques to help translators find glossaries and parallel texts on the Internet based on specific keywords.
Macroconsulting.com, Karin Adamczyk's website and portal of resources for translators.
Neotext, Leo Palladino's home page and portal for translators of all languages.
Devalve, a Dutch portal for translators of all languages.
TransHub, Michael Molin's home page and portal for translators of all languages. A great resource for finding specialized terminology in all languages and fields.
The Translator's Home Page
Cecilia Falk's home page and portal for translators of all languages
João Roque Dias's home page/portal. Great resources for Portuguese translators. Over 4100 glossary links.
Mabercom, Manon Bergeron's home page and portal for financial translators
Scott Sadowsky's home page and portal for Spanish translators
Jaime Aguirre's home page and portal for Spanish translators
Linguists.com
Hobbes' Language World
Linguistics & Language Fun
Translation Centre
Translation Journal's Links List
Caught in the Web
Translation Centre
InterpNET, a portal for conference interpreters. Also very useful for translators.
The Linguist List, a joint project of Wayne State University and Eastern Michigan University. Not a mailing list, but an excellent portal.
The June29.com Human Languages Page
Lingnet.org, the official website of the United States Dept. of Defense's Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.
Direito & Justiça Informática Ltda, a portal with a wealth of information on Brazilian law. All Brazilian civil, criminal and labour codes are available, as well as glossaries. Portuguese monolingual.
Doing Legal Research in Brazil, a useful portal for Brazilian Portuguese legal translators.
Doing French Legal Research, a useful portal for French legal translators.
NYU Law Library's Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases. An incredible portal for all legal translators.
Haim Ravia Law Offices - Legal Links & Dictionaries. Another wonderful resource for all legal translators. Forums, dictionaries, articles, court links, law links, and more.

Reference Tools - Find hundreds of calculators, do specialized searches and access reference tools on a wide variety of topics.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online - FREE
"Ask the Experts" Reference Site
The Free Internet Encyclopedia
CIA Factbook Online
Encyberpedia
The Universal Currency Converter
Inter-Links Internet Resources
Mapquest: Maps and Atlas Functions
Strunk's Elements of Style
Jargon-Free Web, a site that helps you cut down on useless verbiage in your writing. If you submit text to the Jargonator, you will get a rating on a scale of 1 to 6, 1 being exceptionally clear and 6 being too full of jargon. The jargon "trash list" includes overused terminology.
Estadao.com.br's Portuguese style manual
Martindale's Reference Desk
The Translator's Home Companion
The Washington Post
USIA Foreign Media Commentary Reports
The United Nations Home Page
Webofculture.com, a great resource for general country information such as currencies, culture, languages, time zones, weather, etc.
Ethnologue, a catalogue of the world's languages and related information.
Information Market Europe
Librarians' Index to the internet

Spanish/English Translators' Mailing List
Traductores Mailing List (for Spanish translators)
German Translators' Mailing List
Legal Translators' Mailing List
Medical Translators' Mailing List
Financial Translators' Mailing List
LANTRA-L ... the mother of all translators' mailing lists. Warning: This is a VERY high-volume list averaging roughly 300-1000 messages per day, so make sure you get the digested version.
The Terminology Forum
"Tr_jobs" translation jobs mailing list
"Jobs-Translators" translation jobs mailing list
"Translation-Jobs" mailing list
Translation Client Review (TCR), a client payment practices mailing list for translators run by translator Laura Hastings.
Payment Practices (PP_dist), another client payment practices mailing list for translators run by David Orpin and Ted Wozniak.

PayPal, a secure online payment system that clients can use to send payments by charging them to a credit card or bank account. Faster, safer and easier than mailing a check. Clients can pay anyone with an email address, even if the payee is not registered with PayPal. This system is being very well received by clients and translators all over the United States. International service coming soon.
Mail2Web.com - go here to check and read your e-mail whenever you have problems with your regular ISP. Free and no signup necessary; simply enter your e-mail address and account password, and Mail2Web gets all your e-mail for you in two seconds.
Georgetown University Translation Department
The Monterey Institute Programs in Translation & Interpretation Studies
The Georgia State University Program in Translation Certification
Muntadas on Translation (Internet art project)
Schreiber Publishing
IXL provides remote file backup services to translators.
Land Software, the makers of Customer Pro, a very useful software package for freelance translators to use in tracking client payments.
TRADOS Corp., the makers of TRADOS, a very well-known translation memory (TM) software package.
Atril Corp., the makers of Déjà Vu, another well-known TM software package.
Cypresoft, the makers of Trans Suite 2000, another TM software package.
WordFast, a small, fast, effective, and FREE translation memory program developed by Yves Champollion.
Gold Word is the maker of GW-PTT, a reasonably priced and highly customizable translation tool.
Trusty, a file transfer software program for translators.
Translation Office 3000, a billing program for translators, interpreters AND companies.
Pavel Soukenik's FREE MS Word macros designed for translators and proofreaders.
Rogelio Camacho Translation Seminars
Conference schedule for translators, interpreters, and language teachers.
Karin Adamczyk's Rates Survey. Fill out the anonymous survey to gain access to a table of rates which are charged by fellow translators working with various languages. A useful reference tool for translators to use when establishing or adjusting their rates, and for potential clients to use to get an idea of the different rates that are being charged by translators.
SystemSavvy, Inc., an Atlanta-based business systems consulting firm, has a website that is chock full of resources for everyone who uses the Internet and/or who has their own website.
Global Reach. Has very useful mailing lists, newsletters, and free reports of interest to those who wish to market their website in a global context.
Bonjour Paris, a wonderful resource for all Francophones and Francophiles.
Doki Online, an unusual website offering language training through "online" immersion. Right now only the Spanish beta version is available, but it's free.
Englishpage.com - free English lessons online.
Sahafa.com, an English-language site presenting daily, weekly, and monthly publications from most of the Arab world in Arabic, English, and French.
Travelogues Around the World - a website put together by a guy in Montreal who has visited 169 countries.
Karaokemaniacs.com, a site started up by me and two of my close friends. Enjoy!

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Know of any useful links that don't appear here? Don't hesitate to submit your suggestions!!

Updated 01/23/03.