Selected Reference Sources on the Internet

Acronyms, Abbreviations, etc. Biographies Conversion Calculators Dictionaries Directories Encyclopedias

Patents Quotations Standards Statistical Data & Facts Miscellaneous

Acronyms, Abbreviations, etc.

• Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
• BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Directory - Acronyms (Accountancy)
• Guide to Polymer Abbreviations
• Journal Title Abbreviations (ISI)
• Journal Abbreviation Sources (by subject)

Biographies

• Biographical Dictionary
• Biography.com

Conversion Calculators

• Convert It (numeric formats, temperatures, measures, and weights)
• Interactive Units Converter
• WWW Unit Converter

Dictionaries

Languages

Chinese

• 英漢/漢英/英英/中日/英日 線上電子字典
• “粵音韻彙” 電子版
• 國語小字典
• 異體字字典
• Chinese Characters - Genealogy, Dictionary, Readings
• Chinese-English Dictionary

English

• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Encarta World English Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Online (Dictionary and Thesaurus)
• The Newbury House Online Dictionary
• Wordpedia.com (Enter an English or Chinese word in the box "知識檢索" and select "遠流字典通"; an English-Chinese dictionary)

Other languages

• Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch (German-English Dictionary)
• LEO English/German Dictionary
• QuickDic - Free German English Online Dictionary
• WordReference.com (English/Spanish, English/French, English/Italian dictionaries)

Subject-specific

• Chinese Computer Terminology
• FOLDOC Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• Legal Dictionary in FindLaw for Legal Professionals
• law.com Law Dictionary
• On-line Medical Dictionary

Directories

• AllConferences.Com (A directory of conferences)
• IMF Terminology: A Multilingual Directory (International Monetary Fund)

Encyclopedias

• Encarta Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• TechEncyclopedia (Computer terms and concepts)
• Virus Encyclopedia (An encyclopedia of computer virus)
• Wikipedia

Patents

• Canadian Patent Database (full text available)
• European Patent Office (full text available)
• IP Australia - patents databases
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Patent Full-Text and Full Image Databases
• WIPO - Inventions (Patents)
• 中華人民共和國國家知識產權局專利檢索

Quotations

• The Quotations Page (Find quotations by author and keyword)
• quoteland.com (Find quotations by author and topic)

Standards

• British Standards Online
• ISO International Standards Catalogue
• National Information Standard Organization

Statistical Data & Facts

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Data (U.S. Department of Labor)
• National Bureau of Statistics of China 中華人民共和國國家統計局
• Official Statistics on the Web (free statistics from official sources)
• Census and Statistics Department (HKSAR)
• CIA World Factbook
• Eurostat
• STAT-USA
• United Nations Statistics Division

Miscellaneous

• Information USA
• The Nobel Prizes