Dictionaries & Reference
Dictionaries
- Merriam-Webster WWWebster Dictionary
- ARTFL Project French-English Dictionary: The University of Chicago's ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) Project maintains a very useful searchable French-English/English-French dictionary.
- FOLDOC (Free On-line Dictionary of Computing): Denis Howe has been compiling computing terms since 1985,and now has nearly thirteen thousand entries in his searchable dictionary.
- FOLDOP (Free Online Dictionary of Philosophy).
- Your Dictionary.Com: A Web of On-line Dictionaries originally developed by Robert Beard, a linguistics professor at Bucknell University. Links to dictionaries for 215 languages from Afrikaans to Zulu; dozens of multilingual and translation dictionaries; a fascinating selection of specialized English dictionaries on scores of topics such as architecture, media, fishing, physics, etc.
Reference
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: Ninth Edition of John Bartlett's famous book
- Reference Room of the Internet Library
- The Virtual Reference Desk
- Acronym and Abbreviation List
- Quotations
- Jack Lynch's On-Line Literary Research Site
- SOURCES Information Directory
- The Rosetta Project: a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers developing a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone. A meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages, a platform for comparative linguistic research and education as well as a functional linguistic tool that might help in the recovery or revitalization of lost languages in unknown futures.
- Electronic Literature Directory and Electronic Literature Organization presents a "comprehensive directory of work" in the field of electronic literature. Electronic literature is here defined as any literature with an electronic element available on the Internet and thus includes both experimental Internet novels and animated poems as well as audio versions of traditional works that have been made available on the Web, such as the postings of authors reading their own works available at sites like the Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages.
- Perseus Digital Library sponsored by the Department of the Classics, Tufts University. Excellent resources for Classics studies.
- Exquisite Corpse: brainchild of novelist, essayist, and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu. The term "exquisite corpse" comes from a classic game of narrative-making popular among European surrealists in which different players add the next line to a narrative written on a paper effigy. Six different departments offer a cornucopia of literary efforts. An archive of previous issues, a search engine, and a sizable, annotated list of staff favorite links round out this e-zine.