Reference Internet Resources

Quick Reference

Dictionaries, Glossaries, Thesauri

Federal Government's Publiservice List of Reference Tools

http://publiservice.gc.ca/reference/ref_e.html

Includes links to dictionaries, thesauri, grammars.

The Glossarist

www.glossarist.com/default.asp

A searchable directory of over 4000 glossaries available on the Web.

Lexicool: Directory of Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries

www.lexicool.com/

Searchable directory of over 3000 translation dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. Search interface permits searching by languages, subject and keyword.

Office de la langue française

www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/

Home page of the Quebec Office de la langue française. Provides access to many linguistic tools and to their Grand dictionnaire terminologique.

OneLook Dictionaries

www.onelook.com/

A search engine which searches for a word in as many as 74 dictionaries simultaneously; also allows the user to specify in which dictionaries to search. Contains special subject dictionaries.

ONTERM: Gov't of Ontario Bilingual Terminology

www.onterm.gov.on.ca/

ONTERM contains close to 10,000 official Government of Ontario titles in English with their French equivalents. These include the names of Ontario government ministries and their organizational units, names of agencies, boards, commissions and other entities directly or indirectly affiliated with the Ontario government as well as program names and position titles.

Oxford English Dictionary Online (access limited to LAC on-site users)

http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl

The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series. The OED is currently being revised and draft material from the revision program is being added to the online Dictionary on a quarterly basis. For help in navigating the OED Online, use the HELP feature and the Dictionary Tour.

Reference - Bartleby.com

www.bartleby.com/reference/

Includes the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Roget's II: the New Thesaurus, American Heritage Book of English Usage, Elements of Style.

Roget's Thesaurus

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

Roget's Thesaurus Version 1.02. Searchable interface provided.

Translation Bureau (PWGSC)

http://bureaudelatraduction.gc.ca/pwgsc_extranet/en/accueil_home_e.htm

Links to Termium Plus which contains over three million English/French terms and titles. Also included in TERMIUM Plus are resources such as: Le guide du rédacteur, Lexique analogique and The Canadian Style. Access WWW-accessible glossaries published by the Translation Bureau.

A Web of On-line Dictionaries

www.yourdictionary.com/

This website indexes on-line dictionaries and thesauri. Preference in selection has been given to free online dictionaries of high quality. Contains links to over 800 dictionaries in 150 different languages.

WWWebster Dictionary

www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm