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	ABC bookworld ABC bookworld British Columbia author database
	Acronym list List of acronyms in atmospheric science from A to Z, presented by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Communications
	Acronym server A searchable database of acronyms and words used in acronyms
	Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ... Auf Veranlassung ..
	Artcyclopedia the fine art search engine / "John Malyon, the creator of Artcyclopedia, says that he wants this site to become 'the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet.' It is certainly true that a lot has been accomplished in the short amount of time since this website first went online in February 1999. The number of entries has steadily grown to 80,000 works by 7000 different artists on 700 leading arts sites. The criterion for inclusion in the Artcyclopedia is that the artist must be included in an arts museum collection somewhere in the world. The site's best search is by artist, but the user can also search for artworks, art museums, or browse by movement or medium. An artist search brings up links to online museums, image archives and articles about the artist. There are the ubiquitous links to Amazon.com and Allposters.com to purchase related merchandise, but otherwise the site is mercifully banner-free and the author pledges to keep it that way"--Best free reference Web sites 2001
	ARTFL Project French-English dictionary form Search for either English or French terms in a dictionary which contains about 75,000 terms. Data files courtesy of Tyler Jones. Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
	ArtLex dictionary of visual art This site provides definitions for more than 2,600 terms, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, quotations, and links to other resources on the Web
	astronomy thesaurus A five language thesaurus of astronomy terms
	Australian stratigraphic units database The database records information on all Australian stratigraphic units and their usage in literature, making it a centralised reference point for all Australian stratigraphic unit information; it is also the repository for definition descriptions for these units
	BABEL a glossary of computer oriented abbreviations and acronyms
	Babel Fish translation Presents the Babel Fish translation tool which able to translate text that you type in or entire Web site when you supply the URL of the site. The tool supports a growing list of languages
	BC Geographical Names Information System
	Belgium-Roots Project, Federal Kingdom Belgium. Places
	Benton County place names
	BFI film & TV database The BFI Film & TV Database provides information on British and international film and television titles, as well as people, music groups, organizations and events dating back to the beginning of film production. Includes information on 810,000 feature films, short films, TV programs, documentaries, newsreels, and educational and training films - searchable by synopses, crew, cast, music, release and transmission information, and related events. Includes filmographies of 1.2 million people and 210,000 organizations as well as biographical information and related events such as awards received. Also includes listings of 23,000 festivals, award ceremonies, markets, exhibitions and conferences for information about screenings and prize-winners
	Binding terms a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging /
	Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland Biographical dictionary of the Netherlands
	Biology online. Biology dictionary / Currently lists approx. 1800 biological and life sciences terms with definitions
	Bryological glossary Web version of Glossarium polyglottum bryologiae, containing the 1,181 English terms and their definitions from the original publication. Each entry also gives the term's Latin, French, German, and Spanish equivalents. Links between terms and images will be added in the future
	ChemFinder searching Interface enabling searching of the CS database by chemical name, CAS Number, molecular formula, or molecular weight
	ChemIDplus ChemIDplus provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substance cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases. ChemIDplus also provides structure searching and direct links to many biomedical resources at NLM and on the Internet for chemicals of interest. The database contains over 349,000 chemical records, of which over 56,000 include chemical structures, and is searchable by name, synonym, CAS registry number, molecular formula, classification code, locator code, and structure
	CHEMnetBASE chemical databases online - UW restricted Includes several chemical dictionaries, and the CRC handbook of chemistry & physics
	Combined chemical dictionary - UW restricted The combined chemical dictionary is a structured database holding information on chemical substances. It includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. The online version contains all substances available from: Dictionary of organic compounds, Dictionary of natural products, Dictionary of inorganic and organometallic compounds, Dictionary of drugs, Dictionary of analytical reagents, and Dictionary of carbohydrates
	Common equivalent weights and measures Presents a listing of common equivalent weights and measures often used in chemistry. Includes units such as acre, barrel, bushel, dram, degrees, foot, liter, minim, yard, and other units
	comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages
	Composers Almost 400 composers have representation with the Australian Music Centre. This site presents biographical information about each composer, photographs, composer email addresses and links to composer websites, and lists of works and recordings held at the Australian Music Centre Library
	Composite gazetteer of Antarctica "The database contains all the names officially given to Antarctic geographic features by 20 countries, with the addition of the Antarctic undersea features taken from GEBCO. The names included in the database are those south of the 600S parallel ..."--General information screen
	comprehensive glossary of weather terms for storm spotters "This glossary contains weather-related terms that may be either heard or used by severe local storm spotters or spotter groups. Its purposes are 1) to achieve some level of standardization in the definitions of the terms that are used, and 2) provide a reference from which the meanings of any terms, especially the lesser-used ones, can be found. The idea is to allow smooth and effective communication between storm spotters and forecasters, and vice versa."
	concise dictionary of Old Icelandic,
	Corpus of Middle English prose and verse "The Humanities Text Initiative intends to develop the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse into an extensive and reliable collection of Middle English electronic texts, either by converting the texts ourselves or by negotiating access to other collections produced to specified high standards of accuracy."
	Defining fisheries a user's glossary /
	Diccionarios.com tus diccionarios on-line Provides a variety of Spanish language dictionaries, including a general dictionary of Spanish words with Spanish definitions, a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, and bilingual dictionaries of Spanish-English and English-Spanish, Spanish-French and French-Spanish, Spanish-German and German-Spanish, and Spanish-Catalan and Catalan-Spanish
	Dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms in geographic information systems, cartography, and remote sensing
	Dictionary of botanical epithets
	Dictionary of carbohydrates - UW restricted A database containing concise chemical and bibliographic data of 26,000 compounds most commonly used by chemists. The data included in each entry includes chemical names and synonyms, including CAS and IUPAC names, trade names, and trivial names; full and clear description of equilibrium studies, cyclic forms, and their derivatives; extensive occurrence and use data; structure diagrams showing stereochemistry and configuration; and physical properties including melting point, optical rotation, and mutarotation data
	Dictionary of commonly cited compounds - UW restricted A database contining concise chemical and bibliographic data of 25,000 compounds most commonly used by chemists. Covers organic compounds, inorganic compounds, drugs, natural products, materials, alloys, and the elements and their isotopes
	dictionary of dental terms
	Dictionary of drugs - UW restricted Containing over 40,000 pharmacologically active compounds. Coverage includes all currently marketed drugs, pharmacological tools, compounds in the later stages of clinical trials and pharmaceutical excipients. As part of the Chapman & Hall/CRC Chemical Dictionary series, its standard features include concise chemical data, accurately drawn structure diagrams and bibliographic information
	Dictionary of food compounds - UW restricted The Chapman & Hall/CRC Dictionary of food compounds is a database containing the 50,000 most popular compounds found in food chemistry. The information contained on the chemical database includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables
	Dictionary of inorganic & organometallic compounds chemical databases online - UW restricted
	Dictionary of mining, mineral, and related terms Electronic dictionary of mining, mineral, and related terms
	Dictionary of mining, mineral, and related terms Electronic dictionary of mining, mineral, and related terms
	Dictionary of natural products - UW restricted A comprehensive database of 170,000 natural products which includes: names and synonyms, formulae, chemical structures, CAS Registry Numbers, extensive source data, uses and applications, physical state, melting point, boiling point, pKa, and key literature citations, as well as a comprehensive type of compound classification scheme which brings together compounds that are biogenetically related. All information is searchable by text or by substructure
	Dictionary of Old English, Old English corpus - UW restricted Contains all surviving Old English material (over 3000 texts), excluding some variant texts. Each text includes a reference to its genre, period and language; a unique text number; a Cameron number; a short and expanded title used to identify the text in the Dictionary of Old English
	Dictionary of organic compounds - UW restricted The Chapman & Hall/CRC Dictionary of Organic Compounds contains concise chemical, structural, and bibliographic information on over 255,000 of the most important organic compounds. These have been selected by an international team of experts in the field of modern organic chemistry and cover a wide range of commonly used chemicals, synthetic reagents, pesticides, starting materials, and simple fundamental compounds, plus a selection of natural products, pharmaceuticals, and analytical reagents
	dictionary of philosophical terms and names Presents a dictionary of philosophical terms and names, which contains a guide to technical terms and personal names that occur in the study of philosophy
	Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
	Dictionary of phrase and fable giving the derivation, source, or origin of common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell "This is the 1898 edition, which, although over 100 years old, comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog 'words with a tale to tell.'"
	dictionary of Quaternary acronyms and abbreviations This dictionary contains acronyms and abbreviations that are common in Quaternary studies. Also includes links to other acronym and abbreviation resources
	dictionary of the Maori language
	dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English /
	dictionary, Hindustani and English : with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani / /
	Dictionnaire historique et critique A dictionary of biographies of historical persons, originally published in 1697. This electronic version is based on the 1740 Amsterdam edition, and includes full-text searching of the original index
	Dictionnaire multilingue du cheval Equine multilingual dictionary
	Digital dictionaries of South Asia A collaborative effort to widen access to South Asian language dictionaries. Established dictionaries for over thirty modern literary languages of South Asia will be mounted on the Web for free and open access. Languages to be covered, in alphabetical order, are: Assamese, Baluchi, Bengali, Dhivehi, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Mundari, Naga, Nepali, Newari, Oriya, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Persian, Prakrit, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Torwali, and Urdu. Languages under consideration for a future project include: Ardhamagadhi, Avestan & Old Persian, Bodo, Brahui, Burmese, Dari, Khasi, Khowar, Kuki-Chin, Lahu, Lepcha, Pahlavi, Portuguese (in India), Romani, Santali, Tibetan, and Tulu
	Dizionario biografico degli Italiani
	Donald's encyclopedia of popular music Contains an alphabetical list of nearly 4,000 entries for performers of popular music with some additional entries for songwriters, producers, and record labels. Also includes histories for some of the main popular genres including ragtime, jazz, blues, country and rock
	Dravidian etymological dictionary /
	EEA multilingual environmental glossary The EEA glossary contains English terms with definitions and definition sources, synonyms and links as well as translations into the 23 other EEA languages
	Encyclopedic dictionary of applied geophysics - UW restricted
	English-Estonian dictionary Searchable English-Estonian-English dictionary with more than 17,000 words
	English-Portuguese equivalents of forestry and conservation terms
	FireTalk FireTalk is an on-going project at the Illinois Fire Service Institute Library to improve access to fire science information. By means of this thesaurus, all the indexing terms that describe the collection of the IFSI Library can be displayed, aiding patrons who are searching the IFSI Library Web catalog and other fire related databases, such as the USFA National Emergency Training Center and the New York Academy of Fire Science Library
	free on-line dictionary of computing "FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecomms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing ... entries are cross-referenced to each other and to related resources elsewhere on the net ..."

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ABC bookworld
ABC bookworld British Columbia author database

Acronym list
List of acronyms in atmospheric science from A to Z, presented by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Communications

Acronym server
A searchable database of acronyms and words used in acronyms

Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ... Auf Veranlassung ..

Artcyclopedia the fine art search engine /
"John Malyon, the creator of Artcyclopedia, says that he wants this site to become 'the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet.' It is certainly true that a lot has been accomplished in the short amount of time since this website first went online in February 1999. The number of entries has steadily grown to 80,000 works by 7000 different artists on 700 leading arts sites. The criterion for inclusion in the Artcyclopedia is that the artist must be included in an arts museum collection somewhere in the world. The site's best search is by artist, but the user can also search for artworks, art museums, or browse by movement or medium. An artist search brings up links to online museums, image archives and articles about the artist. There are the ubiquitous links to Amazon.com and Allposters.com to purchase related merchandise, but otherwise the site is mercifully banner-free and the author pledges to keep it that way"--Best free reference Web sites 2001

ARTFL Project French-English dictionary form
Search for either English or French terms in a dictionary which contains about 75,000 terms. Data files courtesy of Tyler Jones. Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago

ArtLex dictionary of visual art
This site provides definitions for more than 2,600 terms, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, quotations, and links to other resources on the Web

astronomy thesaurus
A five language thesaurus of astronomy terms

Australian stratigraphic units database
The database records information on all Australian stratigraphic units and their usage in literature, making it a centralised reference point for all Australian stratigraphic unit information; it is also the repository for definition descriptions for these units

BABEL a glossary of computer oriented abbreviations and acronyms

Babel Fish translation
Presents the Babel Fish translation tool which able to translate text that you type in or entire Web site when you supply the URL of the site. The tool supports a growing list of languages

BC Geographical Names Information System

Belgium-Roots Project, Federal Kingdom Belgium. Places

Benton County place names

BFI film & TV database
The BFI Film & TV Database provides information on British and international film and television titles, as well as people, music groups, organizations and events dating back to the beginning of film production. Includes information on 810,000 feature films, short films, TV programs, documentaries, newsreels, and educational and training films - searchable by synopses, crew, cast, music, release and transmission information, and related events. Includes filmographies of 1.2 million people and 210,000 organizations as well as biographical information and related events such as awards received. Also includes listings of 23,000 festivals, award ceremonies, markets, exhibitions and conferences for information about screenings and prize-winners

Binding terms a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging /

Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland
Biographical dictionary of the Netherlands

Biology online. Biology dictionary /
Currently lists approx. 1800 biological and life sciences terms with definitions

Bryological glossary
Web version of Glossarium polyglottum bryologiae, containing the 1,181 English terms and their definitions from the original publication. Each entry also gives the term's Latin, French, German, and Spanish equivalents. Links between terms and images will be added in the future

ChemFinder searching
Interface enabling searching of the CS database by chemical name, CAS Number, molecular formula, or molecular weight

ChemIDplus
ChemIDplus provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substance cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases. ChemIDplus also provides structure searching and direct links to many biomedical resources at NLM and on the Internet for chemicals of interest. The database contains over 349,000 chemical records, of which over 56,000 include chemical structures, and is searchable by name, synonym, CAS registry number, molecular formula, classification code, locator code, and structure

CHEMnetBASE chemical databases online -

UW restricted
Includes several chemical dictionaries, and the CRC handbook of chemistry & physics

Combined chemical dictionary -

UW restricted
The combined chemical dictionary is a structured database holding information on chemical substances. It includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. The online version contains all substances available from: Dictionary of organic compounds, Dictionary of natural products, Dictionary of inorganic and organometallic compounds, Dictionary of drugs, Dictionary of analytical reagents, and Dictionary of carbohydrates

Common equivalent weights and measures
Presents a listing of common equivalent weights and measures often used in chemistry. Includes units such as acre, barrel, bushel, dram, degrees, foot, liter, minim, yard, and other units

comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages

Composers
Almost 400 composers have representation with the Australian Music Centre. This site presents biographical information about each composer, photographs, composer email addresses and links to composer websites, and lists of works and recordings held at the Australian Music Centre Library

Composite gazetteer of Antarctica
"The database contains all the names officially given to Antarctic geographic features by 20 countries, with the addition of the Antarctic undersea features taken from GEBCO. The names included in the database are those south of the 600S parallel ..."--General information screen

comprehensive glossary of weather terms for storm spotters
"This glossary contains weather-related terms that may be either heard or used by severe local storm spotters or spotter groups. Its purposes are 1) to achieve some level of standardization in the definitions of the terms that are used, and 2) provide a reference from which the meanings of any terms, especially the lesser-used ones, can be found. The idea is to allow smooth and effective communication between storm spotters and forecasters, and vice versa."

concise dictionary of Old Icelandic,

Corpus of Middle English prose and verse
"The Humanities Text Initiative intends to develop the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse into an extensive and reliable collection of Middle English electronic texts, either by converting the texts ourselves or by negotiating access to other collections produced to specified high standards of accuracy."

Defining fisheries a user's glossary /

Diccionarios.com tus diccionarios on-line
Provides a variety of Spanish language dictionaries, including a general dictionary of Spanish words with Spanish definitions, a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, and bilingual dictionaries of Spanish-English and English-Spanish, Spanish-French and French-Spanish, Spanish-German and German-Spanish, and Spanish-Catalan and Catalan-Spanish

Dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms in geographic information systems, cartography, and remote sensing

Dictionary of botanical epithets

Dictionary of carbohydrates -

UW restricted
A database containing concise chemical and bibliographic data of 26,000 compounds most commonly used by chemists. The data included in each entry includes chemical names and synonyms, including CAS and IUPAC names, trade names, and trivial names; full and clear description of equilibrium studies, cyclic forms, and their derivatives; extensive occurrence and use data; structure diagrams showing stereochemistry and configuration; and physical properties including melting point, optical rotation, and mutarotation data

Dictionary of commonly cited compounds -

UW restricted
A database contining concise chemical and bibliographic data of 25,000 compounds most commonly used by chemists. Covers organic compounds, inorganic compounds, drugs, natural products, materials, alloys, and the elements and their isotopes

dictionary of dental terms

Dictionary of drugs -

UW restricted
Containing over 40,000 pharmacologically active compounds. Coverage includes all currently marketed drugs, pharmacological tools, compounds in the later stages of clinical trials and pharmaceutical excipients. As part of the Chapman & Hall/CRC Chemical Dictionary series, its standard features include concise chemical data, accurately drawn structure diagrams and bibliographic information

Dictionary of food compounds -

UW restricted
The Chapman & Hall/CRC Dictionary of food compounds is a database containing the 50,000 most popular compounds found in food chemistry. The information contained on the chemical database includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables

Dictionary of inorganic & organometallic compounds chemical databases online -

UW restricted

Dictionary of mining, mineral, and related terms
Electronic dictionary of mining, mineral, and related terms

Dictionary of natural products -

UW restricted
A comprehensive database of 170,000 natural products which includes: names and synonyms, formulae, chemical structures, CAS Registry Numbers, extensive source data, uses and applications, physical state, melting point, boiling point, pKa, and key literature citations, as well as a comprehensive type of compound classification scheme which brings together compounds that are biogenetically related. All information is searchable by text or by substructure

Dictionary of Old English, Old English corpus -

UW restricted
Contains all surviving Old English material (over 3000 texts), excluding some variant texts. Each text includes a reference to its genre, period and language; a unique text number; a Cameron number; a short and expanded title used to identify the text in the Dictionary of Old English

Dictionary of organic compounds -

UW restricted
The Chapman & Hall/CRC Dictionary of Organic Compounds contains concise chemical, structural, and bibliographic information on over 255,000 of the most important organic compounds. These have been selected by an international team of experts in the field of modern organic chemistry and cover a wide range of commonly used chemicals, synthetic reagents, pesticides, starting materials, and simple fundamental compounds, plus a selection of natural products, pharmaceuticals, and analytical reagents

dictionary of philosophical terms and names
Presents a dictionary of philosophical terms and names, which contains a guide to technical terms and personal names that occur in the study of philosophy

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind

Dictionary of phrase and fable giving the derivation, source, or origin of common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell
"This is the 1898 edition, which, although over 100 years old, comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog 'words with a tale to tell.'"

dictionary of Quaternary acronyms and abbreviations
This dictionary contains acronyms and abbreviations that are common in Quaternary studies. Also includes links to other acronym and abbreviation resources

dictionary of the Maori language

dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English /

dictionary, Hindustani and English : with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani / /

Dictionnaire historique et critique
A dictionary of biographies of historical persons, originally published in 1697. This electronic version is based on the 1740 Amsterdam edition, and includes full-text searching of the original index

Dictionnaire multilingue du cheval Equine multilingual dictionary

Digital dictionaries of South Asia
A collaborative effort to widen access to South Asian language dictionaries. Established dictionaries for over thirty modern literary languages of South Asia will be mounted on the Web for free and open access. Languages to be covered, in alphabetical order, are: Assamese, Baluchi, Bengali, Dhivehi, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Mundari, Naga, Nepali, Newari, Oriya, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Persian, Prakrit, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Torwali, and Urdu. Languages under consideration for a future project include: Ardhamagadhi, Avestan & Old Persian, Bodo, Brahui, Burmese, Dari, Khasi, Khowar, Kuki-Chin, Lahu, Lepcha, Pahlavi, Portuguese (in India), Romani, Santali, Tibetan, and Tulu

Dizionario biografico degli Italiani

Donald's encyclopedia of popular music
Contains an alphabetical list of nearly 4,000 entries for performers of popular music with some additional entries for songwriters, producers, and record labels. Also includes histories for some of the main popular genres including ragtime, jazz, blues, country and rock

Dravidian etymological dictionary /

EEA multilingual environmental glossary
The EEA glossary contains English terms with definitions and definition sources, synonyms and links as well as translations into the 23 other EEA languages

Encyclopedic dictionary of applied geophysics -

UW restricted

English-Estonian dictionary
Searchable English-Estonian-English dictionary with more than 17,000 words

English-Portuguese equivalents of forestry and conservation terms

FireTalk
FireTalk is an on-going project at the Illinois Fire Service Institute Library to improve access to fire science information. By means of this thesaurus, all the indexing terms that describe the collection of the IFSI Library can be displayed, aiding patrons who are searching the IFSI Library Web catalog and other fire related databases, such as the USFA National Emergency Training Center and the New York Academy of Fire Science Library

free on-line dictionary of computing
"FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecomms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing ... entries are cross-referenced to each other and to related resources elsewhere on the net ..."

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