My personal dumping ground of useful editorial links (i.e., the
dumping ground from my browser bookmarks). This
area is under constant construction, so enter at your own risk.
Also see the Medical Resources
for more science links.
Not yet classified
US Government Printing Office Manual 2000
Free download! Online in HTML and PDF formats. [01/05/01]
[2/18/00]
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[2/18/00]
American and UK phrases, origins and
meanings. Needs expanded a lot, but good start. [12/30/99]
Enter a word, phrase, or an entire
website address, choose a language (e.g., French, German, Italian,
or Portugese), and it will render the English text into the target
language--or in reverse, the source language into English.
Per site, "Search in 97 dictionaries on the
Internet. Translate from 50 sources languages into 50 target
language, almost 280 language combinations."
An elderly, copyright-free version of Roget's.
A copyright-free dictionary (hence the 1913 date).
Self-explanatory. Smallish database.
Translators from English to any number of
other languages (or from other languages to English).
Online machine translators.
This site is based on an ancient, copyright
free edition of Merriam-Webster, so it's only
for use in emergencies.
Multiple specialty dictionaries and
glossaries linked together under a single
search engine.
Beard's site of links to specialized on-line
dictionaries and glossaries, organized by subject.
I can't recall why I bookmarked this one.
Page by John R. Kohl of the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute on correct usage of articles in
English (i.e., a, an, the). [2/18/00]
Search engine for ancronyms. The contents of the
database are user contributed--with the usual variations
in spelling and capitalization--so this isn't a site
to rely on for these matters. It also has next to nothing
in the way of medical abbreviations.
Self-explanatory site: search engine for acronyms.
Focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military
(very few medical abbreviations). [03/28/00] Ne, ne! Just got an
ahem! email from the site owner saying "Please note that we've
added over 5,000 medical acronyms and organizations to the database..."
Um, okay. Methinks not an overwhelming amount, considering the
chubbiness of theDavis tome (which only covers the basics),
but gotta start somewhere. I'm for it.
Nifty frames-based site for looking up the
hordes of common email/usenet/chat abbreviations in use.
Page of links to sites dealing with language,
including word origins, phrases, dictionaries, grammars,
word play and games, and so on.
Names classified by family, latin and common names.
USDA-sponsored site, a searchable database of
"biological names focusing on the biota of North America."
Member of Species 2000, an international project indexing the
world's known species.
Searchable listings of threatened trees, plants,
birds, and animals of the world.
Search engine/database.
Yet more computer terms.
A basic sort of page to search for computer jargon.
Online version of the book by the same name (Eric S. Raymond,
editor) from MIT Press.
Encyclopedia with search engine of computer technology.
Search engine for web information on
chemical compounds. Search by chemical name, CAS number,
molecular formula, or molecular weight.
Site devoted to indexing chemistry sites
on the web (includes list of periodic table sites).
Physics
Fundamental physical constants (search),
the SI system, and uncertainty.
Abbreviations
Definitions for international
company abbreviations (GmBH, SpA, SA, etc.).[05/08/02]
A
shorter list that links to it is found here.
Copyright and trademark sites
Check here for trademark names--most
really common questions of this sort can be answered
by this site. [03/17/00 The checklist is still sneakily
hidden on the site.] Site directions: Click on
Trademarks (sidebar); click on Trademark Hotline (main
frame); scroll down page and click on "On-line INTA
Trademark Checklist."
Access to search engines for patents and
trademarks. They're cranky search engines, though.
Here's the
manual search page.[3/5/00]
Address sites
Text list of major U.S. telephone area codes.
Postal addressing systems of the world.
Telephone directory and postal codes for
Canada.
Index of higher education institutions'
websites all over the world (152 countries).
Films
Titles, dates, cast, crew, trivia, synopses,
reviews--nearly everything you might need to know about movies
and television shows. Users are site contributors, so information
may not be accurate.
Libraries
Find the authors, titles, dates, cities, editions,
any missing information for book reference citations here.
Quotations
As the date indicates, an elderly copyright-free
edition of Bartlett's.
[2/18/00]
Biographical sites
Biographical dictionary (with search engine).
A&E Television's biography search engine.
Encyclopedia sites
[2/18/00]
Searchable free web
encyclopedia with hyperlinks and brief subject
definitions.
Pared down public-access version of
Microsoft's CD product.
Government sites
Official website of the Department of
Defense. Misc. information about all branches of the
service.
Demographic, economic, and education data for the
United States. Also check out the links to other government databases.
Database of U.S. census information.
Economic indicators, US Gazetteer (place name,
ZIP code search engine), State and County
profiles, and more. This is the home of
the
Tiger Map Server--create maps of anywhere in the U.S. with
detailed information overlays (roads, streams, districts, etc.)--lots
of fun.
Search engine for NASA documents; very
good for filling out bibliography entries.
International information
Facts and figures for countries all over the world,
courtesy the Central Intelligence Agency--searchable interface with
graphics.
Online version of the Area Handbook series published
by the Department of Defense. Data on the demographics, economics,
political structure, and more of countries around the world. (Data
for some countries isn't very recent; check the date on the country's
first page.)
Travel-oriented site featuring foreign
languages for travelers, translating dictionaries, currency
exchange rates, hotel database, links galore.
Miscellaneous
Cecil Adam's website. [2/28/00]
Great buildings online.
Marshall Brain's site, describing in detail
the workings of all sorts of things technological, physical,
and biological. Fun.
Calendar sites
Page of links to calendar and
date pages of all kinds. [11/19/99]
The frames site with the countries
and their holidays. [3/6/00]
Health days and weeks.
Enter year for appropriate dates of national
holidays and other observances. Lots of them. [6/5/00]
Indexed information site devoted to
all types of calendars (historic, cultural, modern).
Text index page of the site.
Local times for representative cities
all over the world. Seems to be accurate as well. For
example, it gives two representative cities for Indiana,
and, even though it lists them as "Eastern," you currently
get Central when you check the time. So it does work.
[4/3/00]
Unit converters
Java-based metric, English, SI Units. It doesn't
suggest conversions, so you have to have the units in mind.
Tables and explanations of units and
conversions, SI to standard.
A very cool site that defines each unit,
everything from SI to informal oddities like a
"football field" as a unit of length. [11/19/99]
Back and forth between
Arabic and Roman.
International currency converter.
Symbols
An online encyclopedia of graphic symbols, including
more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their
graphic characteristics. Articles on histories, uses, and meanings.
Glossary, quotes that illustrate usage, and
bibliography for terms in literary criticism, linguistics,
rhetoric, and "identity politics" (nope, dunno what the latter
is, didn't look to find out). [03/31/00]
Glossary of food-related terms, hosted by Bon Appetit site.
Labeling requirements and nutrition guidelines,
including link to the food pyramid.
Search engine for artists names. Per site, the
ULAN currently contains some 200,000 names representing
approximately 100,000 individual artists (or "creators,"
including performance artists, decorative artists, etc.)
and architects. Hosted by Getty Museum.
Articles, glossary, all about music,
complete with pictures of album covers.
The International Lyrics
Server (the copyright litigation has been
settled.) User-contributed lyrics for thousands
of popular songs. [entry updated 10/04/99]
A historical anthology of English poetry,
from the early medieval period to the beginning of the
twentieth century, which includes about 730 poems by
roughly 80 authors. [11/19/99]
Full text of poems, author/title/subject
indexes. Copyright-free poetry only.[11/19/99]
A collection of resources for graduates,
undergraduates, teaching assistants, and other researchers.
Organized by places and periods, resources (timelines, maps,
and such), methods and topics (Arts, Art History/Museums,
Biographies/Oral History, Jewish Studies, Military History,
Pop Culture, Science/Medicine/Technology,
Social/Intellectual/Cultural, Women). [03/24/00]
German: Elberfelder; English: Darby, King James (KJV),
New American Standard Version (NASB), New International Version (NIV),
Revised Standard Version (RSV), Young's Literal Translation (YLT);
Spanish: NVI, RVA; French: LSG; Italian: CEI; Latin: Vulgate;
Norwegian: DNB1930; Portugese: NVI; Swedish: LIVING, SV1917;
and Tagalog.
Extensive page of links to bible sites,
including international translations and historical volumes.
King James Version (KJV). Search concordances,
lexicons, dictionaries, and commentaries.
Hyperlinked version of Thomas Bulfinch's
classic The Age of Fable, Or Stories of Gods and Heroes.
Covers Greek and Roman myth.
Incomplete but potentially useful entries
on mythology and folklore topics. Expands by user contributions,
so info should be judged accordingly.
The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
by E. Cobham Brewer (from the new and enlarged edition of 1894).
Large collection of links.
Dieties, events, creatures, people, many
links to definitions, explanations, and papers on all aspects
of Greek mythology.
Link catalog of sites, organized by region and
language group, pertaining to myth and legend. Related links to
early gothic and science fiction literary genres.
Business
Company information--useful for
spellings.
Government
Law
A big site of links, arranged by subject.
St. Ambrose University, Iowa. This is a big page of links
on an incredible variety of subjects.
California State Library's information links page.
Reference links, mostly annotated, organized
by subject.
Link collection, includes free and pay
search services.
Free service. Directory of experts in various fields.
Free search for journal title abbreviations.
Card 1.
Card 2.
Card 3.
Card 4.
Alphabetical, simple guide to
London Times style.
Courtesy Bedford/St. Martin's
Press a (largely unproofread) discussion of
the four main style sheets, links to online
samples of each, and listing of books that
treat other disciplines' styles.
Bill Walsh's homepage 'o copyediting (he works
for the Washington Post, with advice on AP style.
Write in a question, get an answer. Articles on grammar,
and grammar-related links.
This is not Strunk and White, rather it is
the earlier (now out of copyright) handbook by Strunk alone. Dated.
Quick reference for the parts of speech.
An online grammar handbook--parts of speech and sentence
elements with example--courtesy the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign Writer's Workshop.
Yet another site where you write in your
grammar question and wait for a response. Grammar links.
Courtesy NASA, two chapters from their writting handbook.
The first discusses (with examples) how to use capitalization
properly. The second is a detailed discussion (with examples)
of the use of the punctuation marks.
I've had this bookmark for a long time.
A friendly discussion of grammar and usage; the entries
are alphabetized.
The Writing Lab at Purdue (my alma mater!), one
of the first of the online writing help resources. General
information online, plus questions answered.
I've been on this list since it was first started.
My idea of a good time: eat with other copyeditors
and talk about...work!
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