FU Berlin: Informationsdienste im World Wide Web. Excellent!
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): The World Factbook. The Factbook is a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities.
EuroWeb: Public Online Kiosk.
! Focus: Vergleich macht reich. 50 useful databases. Excellent!
Computer User High-Tech Dictionary: File Types. These extensions at the end of a filename refer to the type of file it is. This information is used by your operating system to launch an appropriate program when you click on the filename.
Links for Palaeobotanists, Glossaries, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Glossaries, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias: General.
dmoz, Open Directory Project, and dmoz Deutsch. The Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors. Excellent!
Volker Schardin: Extensions/Suffixes (in German). Index to the most used extensions.
! wissen.de GmbH, München: Deutsche Wörterbücher (in German) Access to Wahrig Deutsches Wörterbuch, Wahrig Deutsche Rechtschreibung, Wahrig Fremdwörterlexikon. See also: "Profisuche".
! Jochen Wolf: hilfe1a.de (in German). An invaluable help page for the German user. Click "Download", or have a look at "Linkliste".
Worldskip.com, Oakland, California. WorldSkip.com is devoted to bringing the online consumer access to information, resources, products and services from any nation on this planet.
! Die Zeit, Germany:
Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache (WDG).
In German. Excellent!
Abseits.de: Online-Ausgaben von Presseerzeugnissen und Online-Magazine (in German).
AltaVista News. Newspaper articles a fortnight ago.
Adobe Systems Incorporate: Search Adobe PDF Online. Now there's a way to search through more than a million summaries of PDF files on the Web. Your search results will allow you to see the summaries before deciding to view the original Adobe PDF.
Roland Bernert, Multimediaberater Fortbildung: Zeitungsarchive im Netz - unendliche Weiten für die Recherche? (in German).
! biblint.de: Nachrichtenrecherche (in German).
The Chico High School Library: Full Text Daily News Archives With Search Engines.
Daypop.com. Currently, Daypop indexes over 7500 of the best news sites and weblogs on the net every day.
Education Week on the Web. Education Week Archives. 1981-, free.
Erlanger Liste. A directory for archives (in German).
Financial Times: Search.
! FINDarticles.COM. FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
! GBI: The contentmachine (in German). Search from here. GBI is a leading provider of German business information. Free of charge, but result access with costs.
Genios (in German, with costs): Very useful for a first sight (and free), go to: GENIOS Cross-Search.
The Guardian, UK: Archive.
! Heritage Microfilm, Inc.: Search 537,000 newspaper pages instantly! The world's first, largest and busiest online historical newspaper archive.
Markus Neteler, Bibliotheken, Bücher und Berichte: Zeitungsarchive (in German).
Hot Neuron LLC.: MagPortal.com. This is a free web site that provides a full-text search engine for online magazine articles. You can browse through nearly 250 categories to find the most recent magazine articles and news feeds for your area of interest. Unlike general search engines which can take weeks to add a new page, new articles in MagPortal.com normally added within 1 business day of their publisher placing them on the net.
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw): Information about German universities (in German). Go to the Search page. Worth checking out: idw-Angebot für Journalisten.
! Internet-Links für Journalisten (in German). Go to: Archive / Zeitungsarchive.
Library of Congress: Newspaper Indexes/Archives/Morgues
Los Angeles Daily News: Archive Search.
Magportal.com. Articles from TIME, Forbes, New Scientist und Scientific American.
Main-Post, Würzburg: Archiv (in German, need user id).
Miriam Matteson & Elisabeth Donovan: Non-US Newspaper Archives on the Web.
Markus Neteler: Bibliotheken, Bücher und Berichte, ZEITUNGSARCHIVE (in German).
News Library (from USA).
perlentaucher.de. Feuilleton.
PubList.com, The Internet Directory of Publications: PubList.com is the only Internet-based reference for over 150,000 domestic and international print and electronic publications including magazines, journals, e-journals, newsletters, and monographs.
! RechercheTipps.de: Internetlinks für Journalisten (in German).
refdesk.com: NEWSPAPERS - USA AND WORLDWIDE.
! Andreas Reinhardt, Seminar Recherchieren im Internet. Go to: Suche in Zeitungsarchiven (in German).
The Times and Sunday Times, UK: Archive. Need user id: register for your free personal password.
USA Today: Search.
Vanderbilt University: TV News Archive Abstracts, Evening News Abstracts. 1968-, free.
Compiled by Margot Williams, The Washington Post, with George Washington University
Journalism 190 students and Christian Bourge:
U.S. News Archives on the Web.
http://www.teleauskunft1188.de./
teldir.com: Telephone Directories on the Web. This is the Internet's original and most complete index of online phone books, with over 400 links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings from over 170 countries all around the world. Excellent!
TELEdir.de. Vorwahlnummern.
! Telefonbuch.com: Phone Books International (in German). Excellent!
YAHOO Deutschland:
Nachschlagewerke >
Telefonnummern und Adressen.
Informatik Uni Stuttgart: Postleitzahlen-Auskunft.
NADS: Das Postleitzahlenbuch. Excellent!
Deutsche Post:
Postleitzahlen.
Bahn.de: Planen und Buchen.
HaCon Ing. GmbH, Hannover:
Fahrplanauskunft
(including Austria, Switzerland, UK).
Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung: Bayernviewer.
CIP-Pool, Department of Physics, University of Wuerzburg.
Main-Post Würzburg
Stadt Würzburg: Würzburg Online.
Würzburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH. Go to:
Fahrpläne im PDF-Format.
PC Praxis (Data Becker).
First of all:
Siegfried Krueger:
Search engines.
All in one page, categorized and annotated (in German).
! Ixquick. Fast and most comprehensive meta search engine, searches 14 engines.
Stefan Karzauninkat, c´t 23/99: Zielfahndung, and Suchmaschinen, Verzeichnisse und andere Nachschlagewerke (in German).
Library, University Konstanz:
Suchmaschinen für Deutschland, die deutschsprachige Schweiz und Österreich.
! Links for Palaeobotanists: Search Engines.
! Searchenginewatch. Search Engine Watch provides tips and information about searching the web. Go to: Specialty Search Engines. For those times when you want to find more than just web pages and web sites, some of the "specialty search engines" below will prove useful.
Die Suchfibel. All about search engines (in German).
Rechenzentrum Universität Würzburg:
Suchen und Finden im Internet.
An Introduction (in German).
Excellent!
AltaVista: World: translation (the former babelfish). Translate web pages or text between English and German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.
Mashov Computers Ltd., Or Yehuda, Israel: Babylon. Choose a language and type a word to translate. Translation at the Speed of a Click! Babylon, a downloadable program (free of charge) will make it possible to translate words and expressions on your screen from English to your own language with just one click of your mouse.
! EUROPEAN COMMISSION, TRANSLATION SERVICE, Directorate for General and Language Matters, Development of Multilingual Tools, ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels-Luxembourg: Eurodicautom. Translates from one language to another - works for a dozen languages so far. The database contains technical terms, abbreviations, acronyms and phraseology.
FreeTranslation.com. This is an easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages.
Institut for Erhvervsinformatik, Kolding, Denmark:
Links on Machine Translation (MT).
Application Systems Heidelberg.
Aixit
Andreas Bunkahle:
Atari ST Emulator für Windows mit Freewareprogrammen.
EmuNews.de
Richard Karsmakers and Robert Goodwin:
Atari ST Emulation FAQ.
About Atari ST emulation on the PC
(currently GEMulator96, GEMulator Classic, PacifiST,
STemu, STimul, and STonX).
The Little Green Desktop
Norbert Luckhardt:
Zauberhaft.
MagiC für Windows 95.
Mike’s Home Page
Table of Contents
Jazz
Latin Music and Salsa
The News
Classical
From Germany
Meta Indexes
! Pandora. Delete your old files here (Flash Player Help), and Pandora works again. See also there (in German).
Jazz FM - 102.2 fm - London UK.
Liferadio The spirit of KJAZ San Francisco
! Sky Jazz. This website offers you a choice of four, sixty minute jazz programs, each having its own style, and in full stereo. Go to: REALAUDIO PROGRAMS. Select, then go to "Play this program".
! Winamp:
Jazz.
Winamp radio channel listings.
dmoz: Arts: Music: Styles: Jazz: Radio. Excellent!
Jazzstations.com. Directory of jazz radio stations broadcasting live on the internet.
! Phonostar.de. Download and install Phonostar, plenty of stations, best quality, free of charge!
! vTuner. vTuner creates an easy way to find and launch radio and TV broadcasts available over the Internet. Go to: Jazz, Blues, or Big Band.
! Winamp:
Jazz.
Winamp radio channel listings.
A. Bogner, radiolist.eu.org: Linksammlung einiger Internet-Radiosender mit Schwerpunkt Lateinamerika.
dmoz: Arts > Music > Styles > R > Regional and Ethnic > Latin.
! High Fidelity Salsa, Denmark. Go to: Salsaguide, Netradio/tv and music.
Latin American Radio. A fairly comprehensive set of links to Radio stations in Latin America.
! Live-radio.net. Good links to Internet radio. See here.
Looksmart: Music, Latin America.
! Phonostar.de. Download and install Phonostar, plenty of stations, best quality, free of charge!
Picadillo. Picadillo is the web home of Latin Music. Start here and follow links to Latin music sites around the world. Play the Jukebox. It plays a different set every time.
! Salsapower.com: Salsa Radio Stations, MP3s and more on the internet.
SalsaWeb.com: Salsaweb Radio Station.
YAHOO: News and Media > Radio, and News and Media > Internet Broadcasts, and Latin.
! BBC World Service. Live now, or go to: BBC NEWS 24.
! BBC NEWS, AUDIO/VIDEO. See also: BBC One TV news.
CNN. With a lot of videos.
Table of Contents
Stations
Classical Music: Directories
Classical Goodies
! BBC Radio3. Listen.
Classic FM, UK.
! Classical Live Online Radio Webcast. Classicalwebcast.com is a collection of live webcasting classical radiostations all over the world. Excellent!
Klassik Radio (from Germany).
! Classical Live Online Radio Webcast. Classicalwebcast.com is a collection of live webcasting classical radiostations all over the world. Excellent!
! dmoz: Arts: Music: Styles: Classical: Radio.
! Google Directory: Arts > Music > Sound Files > MP3 > Streaming > Stations > Classical.
! Phonostar.de. Download and install Phonostar, plenty of stations, best quality, free of charge!
surfmusik.de. Listen to webradio, streaming and recording of free music. Go to: Klassik Radio Live.
! vTuner. vTuner creates an easy way to find and launch radio and TV broadcasts available over the Internet. Go to: Classical.
! Winamp: Talk. Winamp radio channel directory. Go to "Classical".
YAHOO:
Entertainment > Music > Genres > Classical.
About: Freebies: Free Classical Music Downloads.
! Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna: Go to: Webradio & Jukebox.
Arvo Pärt and the New Simplicity. Listen to more than a dozen samples.
BBC Radio 3. Go to:
Listen to Classical radio shows you've missed. See also:
Discovering Music.
A - Z listing by composer name. Discovering Music examines a piece of music, a musical form or a composer's style.
! Classic Cat.
Free classical music.
Classic Cat is a directory with links to over 4000 free to download classical performances on
the internet, sorted by composer and work. Go to:
Composers sorted by name.
See especially:
The Classical Choir Music Page. Don't miss the
Classical soundfile links.
Classical Net. Navigate via "Reviews & Articles" or "Quick Composer Reference". More than 4000 CD/DVD/Book reviews.
eClassical. Go to: Today's free classical MP3, Get more free titles (downloads changes daily).
! Google Directory:
Arts > Music > Sound Files > Classical >
MP3, and
Arts > Music > Sound Files > MP3 > Streaming > Stations >
Classical.
Hyperion Listening Room. Excellent, e.g. Arvo Pärt & Polyphony!
Klassik Akzente: Newsletter. Listen classical music for free.
! Martha Argerich Project. Go to: Works. A list of composers.
! Phonostar.de. Download and install Phonostar, plenty of stations, best quality, free of charge!
SoundClick. SoundClick is a music website that features both signed and unsigned bands. Go to: Classical.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Wikipedia Sound List.
This is a list of full length public domain songs,
alphabetically sorted by composer.
See also
here.
Radio Basilisk (of course, from Switzerland). The News, in "Schwytzer Dütsch". (Sit back and wait).
BR-alpha (Bayerisches Fernsehen)
Deutsche Welle, DW-WORLD.DE
Deutschlandfunk (hosted by DeutschlandRadio). Scroll down to: Life Stream.
Nordwest Radio (Radio Bremen 2).
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR)
YAHOO:
Nachrichten und Medien, and
Webradio.
Meta Indexes
! BRS Radio Directory: BRS Web Radio. Listing of radio stations online. Go to: Internet Only, or International. Station listing by countries.
Digital Reflections, Australia: Video & Audio on the Web.
! dmoz: Arts: Radio: Internet, and Arts: Radio: Resources: Guides.
GEBBIE PRESS: Radio stations on the Web.
! Live-radio.net. Good links to Internet radio.
! Phonostar.de. Download and install Phonostar, plenty of stations, best quality, free of charge!
Radio-Web, Links
! surfmusik.de. Listen to webradio, streaming and recording of free music.
Chuck Taggart: Non-Commercial Radio Stations around North America and the World.
Theodric Technologies LLC: Radio-Locator (USA), formerly "The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet". Go to International Search. See also: Other Radio Stuff on the Internet. Excellent!
! vTuner. vTuner creates an easy way to find and launch radio and TV broadcasts available over the Internet.
! WRN: Audio on Demand Index.
Theodric Young:
Lists of Radio Stations on the Internet,
including "Lists of Radio Stations that Broadcast Live on the Internet".
Table of Contents
Dictionaries
Indexes of ESL Resources
Vocabulary Training
Lessons and Tutorials Online
Idioms and Phrasals
English Pronunciation
! ALLwords.com A small, but growing english dictionary, with multi-lingual search With phonic pronunciation. Excellent!
Langenscheidt KG, Berlin: Langenscheidts Fremdwörterbuch (in German).
Institute for Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin: Acronyms and Abbreviations. This data base, consisting of more than 12.000 acronyms, has a bias towards acronyms used in chemistry or spectroscopy. The special data base of abbreviations of chemical compound names has been incorporated into the acronym database.
Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman: Common Errors in English. A site to assist you in avoiding common errors in your writing.
English-dictionary.us (?Mike Harding). This is a powerful, no-frills English dictionary containing over 200,000 references with both US and British spellings. You can add a search box on your website for this new online dictionary by using the code on http://www.english-dictionary.us/searchbox.html.
FOCUS: Online-Nachschlagewerke. An index of web-dictionaries, in German.
Margaret Gross and Dave Hook, EMS Technologies Canada, Ltd.: Librarians' Resource Centre. Go to: Dictionaries (acronyms, encyclopedias, quotations, multilingual, subject specific: business, sci-tech, internet & computing, miscellaneous).
Houghton Mifflin Company, Bartleby.com: The American Heritage Book of English Usage. A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. Science Terms: Distinctions, Restrictions, and Confusions. A discussion of familiar words that have specific or specialized meanings in science and scientific terms that are easy to confuse.
Institute of Translation and Interpretation, University of Innsbruck: Terminology. An index of glossaries and dictionaries. Go to: Dictionaries and term banks. General language dictionaries and term banks.
! Projekt Deutscher Wortschatz, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon. This database might be used as a special type of German dictionary and dictionary of accompanied expressions. It might also be used as thesaurus, even for English, French and Netherlands. You can also navigate from here, or go to: Dictionary German - English, and "Fachlexika". Excellent!
! LEO: English/German Dictionary. This dictionary contains more than 400 000 entries. Excellent!
The LOGOS Dictionary. This freely-accessible database currently has 7.580.560 entries.
! Merriam-Webster Online. A dictionary and thesaurus. You can hear the pronunciations in this on-line dictionary. Excellent!
! NASA: Global Change Master Directory List of Earth Science Acronyms, Glossaries and Gazetteers. A web directory that contain helpful acronyms used throughout the Earth Science (and other) communities, glossaries of Earth Science terms, and gazetteers of geographic location names.
! Projekt Deutscher Wortschatz, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon. This database might be used as a special type of German dictionary and dictionary of accompanied expressions. It might be used as thesaurus, even for English, French and Netherlands. See also: Dictionary German - English, and "Fachlexika". Excellent!
! Roget´s Thesaurus. Search for related English words and phrases. Excellent!
VoyCabulary. This is a powerful web tool which will link web pages or phrases to online dictionaries or thesauruses. If you wish to process a webpage, enter in the URL (address) of the website into the textbox. If you have some text, maybe from a word processor, you may simply cut and paste it into the textbox and VoyCabulary will process it as well.
Dave Sperling, ESL Cafe´s Web Guide: Dictionaries.
Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library, Stanford University Libraries, CA: BEILSTEIN Dictionary German - English, English - German. This online dictionary, actually intented for users of the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry, contains most German words occurring in the Beilstein Handbook, as well as common abbreviations, alphabetically listed with their English equivalents (about 2,100 entries). Umlauts are not included in this computer version of the dictionary. Excellent!
Robert K. Ware: One Look Dictionaries. Internet search for a word or acronym in a dictionary or glossary. An extremely useful tool, excellent!
Rüdiger Werner, Dresden: The New English-German Dictionary. There are more than 187.000 revised translations in this dictionary.
! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia is an international free encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by the readers of this web site. Also available in German. Excellent!
! wissen.de. Search in dictionaries and encyclopedias (in German). Go to: "Profisuche".
WordNet 1.6 (via Princeton). A lexical database for the English language.
! xipolis.NET GmbH & Co. KG: Mr. Check. Fremdwörterbuch (in German).
YAHOO Deutschland: Nachschlagewerke (in German).
! YourDictionary.com (formerly Robert Beard, Bucknell University; "A Web of Online Dictionaries"). An index of on-line dictionaries, including multilingual dictionaries, specialized English dictionaries, thesauri and other vocabulary aids.
! Die Zeit, Germany:
Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache (WDG).
In German. Excellent!
Blue Web´n Applications: English. Annotated hotlist of sites (including ratings).
English Pages of JOBELMANN-SCHULE
StudyCom: Online ESL Resources.
Dave Sperling: ESL Cafe Web Guide Database.
World Lecture Hall: English, Writing, and Rhetoric.
YAHOO:
English.
Vocabulary Training
Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University: Common Errors in English.
Rene Kondratzky: Vocabulary Trainer. Go to the Vocabulary Training Exercises.
! Teachmaster. Teachmaster is a program for learning vocabulary and can be downloaded and used free of charge.
!
Vocabulix.
A vocabulary and conjugation trainer, free of charge (registration procedure needed).
Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman: Common Errors in English. A site to assist you in avoiding common errors in your writing.
ComAudio Listen to news, songs, and other items in English while the text appears on the screen.
English Zone. Idioms, basic grammar, and spelling.
Lisa Ilene (?): English Grammar The Easy Way. This site explains English so that everyone can understand. It makes English Grammar easy to understand.
Adam Rado: English Learning Fun Site.
StudyCom: English for Internet. English grammar, pronunciation, writing and reading through free Internet courses.
William Strunk, Jr.,
Project Bartleby: Go to:
Elements of Style.
This site provides the principal requirements of plain English
style.
English Zone. English Zone Idioms.
GoEnglish.com. This page lists the most popular idioms from A to Z.
THE IDIOM CONNECTION: English Idioms.
Robert Rayle (?):
The English & German Idioms Sayings.
You are welcome to download the shareware version of Idioms!
AbleMedia: Global Glossary. Focusses the Greco-Roman world. Click on the "Hear It!" icon in any CTCWeb Global Glossary entry and listen to the pronunciation of the word.
! ALLwords.com A small, but growing english dictionary, with multi-lingual search With phonic pronunciation. Excellent!
! The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition, 2000. Category: Mineralogy. With sound pronunciation. Excellent!
Phil A. Arneson, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (maintained by Kathie T. Hodge): On-Line Glossary of of Technical Terms in Plant Pathology. Clicking on the speaker icon will give you the pronunciation of the term.
Encarta Online. Online light version of Microsoft´s popular CD-ROM. Go to "find in concise". Some expressions with phonic pronunciation.
Patricia Gray, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN: Operas and Composers: A Pronunciation Guide.
MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS, inc.: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
! Merriam-Webster Online. A dictionary and thesaurus. You can hear the pronunciations in this on-line dictionary. Excellent!
Mark Thompson: English Hmong Dictionary.
Dave Whitinger Dave's Garden network, the Plants Database):
Botanary.
Here you can look up a plant name, discover its meaning and find
a guide to pronouncing it.
The University of Iowa: The Pronunciation Page.
Okanagan University College: English Pronunciation. Excellent online pronunciation help.
Dave Sperling: ESL Cafe Web Guide Database: Pronunciation. Extensive annotated link page.
Stuff Media:
Phonics Calculator.
Click on the phonetic symbols to hear the vowel sounds. Shockwave needed.