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About.com: Desktop Publishing. This site offers writing tips, desktop publishing tutorials and information about desktop publishing software.

AOL: Langenscheidts Fremdwörterbuch (in German).

Robert Beard, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA: A Web of Online Dictionaries. An index of on-line dictionaries, including multilingual dictionaries, specialized English dictionaries, thesauri and other vocabulary aids, language identifiers and guessers, etc. Excellent!

Floyd Bloom: Human Reviewers: The Achilles Heel of Scientific Journals in a Digital Era. Presented at INABIS '98 - 5th Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University, Canada.

FOCUS: Online-Nachschlagewerke. An index of web-dictionaries, in German.

GEOnet Names Server (GNS): GNS provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency´s (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names. Approximately 12,000 of the databases 3.3 million features are updated monthly with names information approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (US BGN).

Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson: GeoRef Thesaurus (Original Printed Format). This tool indexes 26,150 thesaurus terms from the Alexandria DLI Project GeoRef Thesaurus. You can enter up to four query terms at a time. The server will search and provide a list of relevant concepts based on your query terms. GeoRef Thesaurus has been converted to an on-line format which can be accessed by a concept-based search tool. Funded by the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative (DLI), the AI Lab is responsible for the semantic retrieval and user customization research components of the Illinois Digital Library Project. This project has also been supported by GeoRef Information Services through the provision of bibliographic and thesaurus data. Excellent!

P. Ginsparg, ICSU Press, UNESCO: Winners and Losers in the Global Research Village. About electronic publishing in science.

Terry Gordon, University of Calgary, Teaching Resources: Writing Skills

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, Austria: Terminology. See the LSP Dictionaries, Glossaries, Lists and Reference Sites. Listed according to the Lenoch classification system. Go to GO The cosmos (Geography, Geology and Astronomy).

Christof Kuhn, Vienna: Etymology of mineral and rock 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 includes more than 5 million words and numerous sentences as examples. In German.

The LOGOS Dictionary. The dictionary currently has 7.580.560 entries (total for all languages).

National Association of Science Writers (NASW). A forum to foster the dissemination of accurate information regarding science through all media normally devoted to informing the public.

naturalSCIENCE: Quotations. A short dictionary of scientific quotations.

Paul Nixon and Alfredo Bezzi, Dipartimento die Scienze della Tierra, Universita di Genova: English for Geologists.

OnLine English: WorldWide Writers´ Resources. Multilingual English dictionaries and thesauri, dictionaries by subject and by English grammar, usage and style, as well as acronyms and abbreviations.

Peter Ommundsen, Selkirk College, Canada: Pronunciation of Biological Latin. Including taxonomic names of plants and animals.

Phrase Finder. This online program uses the language´s pattern-matching features to build a list of related words from whatever you input. That list is then matched against a database of phrases. Words aren´t only matched by simple sub-string text matching, the progam has an understanding of irregular word forms and of context.

Roget´s Thesaurus. Search for related English words and phrases. Excellent!

H. Steuber and J. Pasch, Erziehungswissenschaftliches Institut, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: LiteRat. A downloadable reference administration program for scientists. It´s freeware!. In German.

William Strunk, Jr., Project Bartleby: Elements of Style. This site provides the principal requirements of plain English style.

Twomoons Production: Fremdwörterbuch. In German.

Richard Tyson, Fossil Fuels and Environmental Geochemistry, Newcastle Research Group (NRG), Newcastle: Workshop on Referencing and Construction of Bibliographies. PDF file.

Vilim Vesligaj, Dep. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität, Berlin: German-English Dictionary. Please note that this is not a professional translation service.

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.

Rüdiger Werner, Dresden: The New English-German Dictionary. There are more than 187.000 revised translations in this dictionary.

WordNet 1.6 (via Princeton). A lexical database for the English language.

YAHOO, Germany: Nachschlagewerke, and YAHOO, International: Dictionaries and reference.

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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).

Systran Translation Software, Köln: HEISOFT Online Übersetzung. Translation online.

Voila and Softissimo, (france telecom 2000): A new online translation sevice, free of charge.

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Creativepro.com This site provides creative professionals with the information (reviews) and tools they need to get real work done every day. Creativepro.com allows you to discover new creative products, companies, services, etc.

Kevin Woodward: The Fontpool. 1000 categorised truetype fonts, with previews and charactermaps, for you to download.

Home / Writing, Translating and Drawing / Digital Image Processing

About.com: Desktop Publishing. This site offers writing tips, desktop publishing tutorials and information about desktop publishing software.

Richard N. Carver, WMC Exploration Division, Belmont, Australia: . Displaying stream sediment data as coloured line vector maps using map making and database software.

Karen Hagen, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta: Instructional Multimedia, Cool Stuff. File size calculator. Flash 4 movie, ~120Kb.

Richard Hill, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona: Experiments in scanning fossils. Examples. The trick is to select small areas in the scanning software and then use the highest resolution.

The Image: Gifology. Understanding GIF files and GIF animation.

David R. Jessey, Department of Geological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona: Computer Graphics Exercises - 2000. Lecture notes and exercises about - AutoCAD, HTML, CorelDraw, PhotoDraw 2000, Corel Photopaint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access.

MicroWorld Resources and News, Guide to Microscopy and Microanalysis on the Internet: Image Analysis, Image Processing, and 3-D Reconstruction. Link page of FAQs, meta lists, online tutorials, and source code links.

Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (an NIEHS Center), Center for Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson: DIGITAL IMAGING RESOURCES ON THE WWW . An index.

Home / Writing, Translating and Drawing / Grafic Software

About. Shareware/Freeware; FREE Computer Graphics Tools.

Alf´s Pick´s: PHOTO Electronic Imaging, an electronic magazine, including Software Hot Links, and the Pixart Magazine.

Corel

desktopPublishing.com and Desktop Publishing Links.

Wes Hardaker and Gervais Chapuis, University of Lausanne, Switzerland: Escher Web Sketch. A java based paint program for drawing symetrical patterns. Escher Web Sketch allows you to draw repeating patterns. You can select the symmetry of the patterns by clicking on one of the icons in the bar above the drawing area. The drawing tools are selected from the icon bar under the drawing area. Please read the documentation. Excellent! Also worth to visit: Archive of saved images from the Escher Web Sketch applet.

Jask Software. All novelties in paintshop pro.

Lance Ladic, Dept. of Physiology, (Imager Computer Graphics Laboratory (IMAGER), Department of Computer Science), University of British Columbia, Vancouver: 3-D Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy, Graphics Software. These are lists of 2-D and 3-D FREEWARE/SHAREWARE graphics software that is available on the Net.

Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI): The Multimedia Authoring Web: Multimedia Resources. Go to: Graphics.

YAHOO: Top: Computers and Internet: Graphics

Home / Writing, Translating and Drawing / ADOBE Photoshop, General

About.: Photoshop, and Photoshop Resources, and and Photoshop Tutorials - The Basics, and Photoshop Tutorials: Tools and Features. Excellent!

Adobe Systems Incorporated, Adobe Deutsche Produkte, Adobe Photoshop 5.5.

Center for Innovative Computer Applications (CICA): Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Vers. 1.2. This document contains a general guide to using the basic features of Adobe Photoshop 2.5.

The Design & Publishing Center: The best way to master Adobe Photoshop.

eye/design: Photoshop Web Reference.

IDIG Network, San Rafael, California: Photoshop Central.

Biomedical Image Processing Lab, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroanatomy, University of Minnesota: Photoshop for Science.

Photoshop.org: Links.

Tom´s Tips for Web Designers. See: Kai´s Power Tips and Tricks for Adobe Photoshop.

The Ultimate Compendium of Photoshop Sites

Software school: Photoshop Tips.

Mock´s Place

YAHOO: Computers and Internet > Software > Graphics > Titles Adobe Photoshop, or Software > Reviews > Titles > Graphics Adobe Photoshop, or Business and Economy > Shopping and Services > Books > Booksellers > Computers > Titles > Software > Graphics > Adobe Photoshop, or Business and Economy > Business to Business > Computers > Software > Graphics > Adobe Systems, Inc. > Products and Services > Products > Adobe Photoshop.

ZDNet, Help and How-To: Adobe Photoshop.

Home / Writing, Translating and Drawing / ADOBE Photoshop / ADOBE Photoshop Plugins

Alien Skin

AFH Photoshop Filters

Paul Badger, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island: VA 183 Photoshop Resources Page, and Photoshop Filter Page

BoxTop Software, Starkville: Plugs

desktopPublishing.com: Photoshop Filters and Plug-ins

Digital Dominion, Richmond: Photoshop Sites.

eyedesign: Adobe Photoshop Web References. See: Plug-ins

Steve Fisher: PC Resources for Photoshop. See the Main Plugins Page, and Filter Factory Gallery and Plugin Bonanza.

Erik-Paul Gibson, Cytopia Software: Photolab Greg´s Factory Output filters: Adobe Photoshop Filter Factory

Yu Hsin, Singapore: Photoshop Filters

David Hull´s Photoshop Dither Filters

Photoshop.org: Plug-Ins, or Filters, or Actions, or Brushes.

The Pixel Foundry.

Home / Writing, Translating and Drawing / GIS

Association of Geographic Information: GIS Dictionary. The dictionary includes definitions for 980 terms compiled from a variety of sources which either relate directly to GIS or which GIS users may come across in the course of their work. The dictionary is also supplemented by 52 diagrams.

David J. Buckley, Pacific Meridian Resources, Inc.: The GIS Primer. This site provides an overview of issues and requirements for implementing and applying geographic information systems technology.

Caitlin Dempsey, About.com: What is GIS?. A brief introduction to the Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

GEOnet Names Server (GNS): GNS provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency´s (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names. Approximately 12,000 of the databases 3.3 million features are updated monthly with names information approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (US BGN).

The GIS FAQ home page. This is the index of frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) along with answers to these questions. The FAQ is a resource of the comp.infosystems.gis newsgroup and the GIS-L mailing list.

HDM: Great GIS Net Sites. One of the most extensive list server devoted to GIS-related web sites.

Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, Fayetteville: GIS Resources and Pointers. This page contains pointers and tidbits to various GIS-related Information servers. One can find lots of interesting projects, tutorials and information servers.

U.S. Geological Survey: GIS home page. This site is a very comprehensive resource that methodically explains how GIS technology works and how to apply it.

GIS WORLD. This is the world´s first and leading magazine devoted to serving the GIS industry. It is dedicated to the understanding and application of GIS technology worldwide.

West Virginia Environmental Protection, Technical Applications & Geographical Information Systems Unit, Information Services Office: Online Mapping & Databases.

Home / Writing, Translating and Drawing / Image Collections

A Global View From Space. An interactive and intuitive web-based display of realtime satellite imagery from around the globe. This site requires a browser that supports JavaScript scripting language. Excellent! Space Telescope Science Institute/National Aeronautics and Space Adminsitration (NASA): A Photo Gallery of the Universe. Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe. Breathtaking pictures.

Altavista: Search for Images.

Bill Arnett, San Jose, California: Pictures of Earth. Part of "The Nine Planets".

ArribaVista. Search or browse to find images on the web. Matches are displayed in thumbnail format.

Stewart Austin and Helen O'Rourke (under the supervision of M. Lamberson) Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver: The Image Gallery. The collection contains images related to the earth and ocean sciences including some specialized subsets. A general search and a detailed search were created to serve the many needs of the users.

The ClipArtConnection.com

Leopold Dippel, Darmstadt, 1889-1893, Part 1 -3; (web site hosted by Kurt Stüber, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Collection of historic and classical biology books): Handbuch der Laubholzkunde. Dicot trees and shrubs in Germany (in German).

earthnet online, or http://gds.esrin.esa.it:80/reg/welcome.html. Service provided by the European Space Agency - ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. After registration procedure various accesses, e.g. to the SOFTWARE GALLERY to download software for reading satellite products or to check satellite routing, or to images. With search engine.

EarthRISE. Over the years since the first space flight, more than 200,000 photographs of the Earth have been taken by astronauts in orbit. The EarthRISE database is an online collection of over 100,000 of these images taken during the Space Shuttle flights. Click here to see which flights are contained in EarthRISE.

Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD). A service of USRA, sponsored by NASA Goddard. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. Browse EPODs by Related Fields.

Excalibur Technologies Corporation: Excalibur Image Surfer. Image Surfer is an alternative way of surfing the web. In addition to looking through the standard list of links in a category or search, you can now also browse small images along with the search results. Jump directly to the corresponding web site by clicking on the image. Keyword search feature allows you to search images by keyword on the Image Surfer database.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena (NASA), California: SIR-C/X-SAR Space Radar Images of Earth. Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) is a joint U.S.-German-Italian project that uses a highly sophisticated imaging radar to capture images of Earth that are useful to scientists across a great range of disciplines. The images are divided into nine categories for easier viewing.

Mikro-Art: Some links to other photolibraries.

NASA: Visible Earth. The goal of Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated central catalog/collection point to the superset of Earth science-related visualizations and images. Images are accompanied by a description and information on file size and format, usually TIF and JPEG. Excellent!

NASA: Planetary Photojournal. This service provide easy access to the publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs. The system database is currently populated with approximately 910 images; more are being added every day. Great pictures and info on the planets and their moons.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Photo Collection. Over 5,000 public domain photographs and images, dating from the early 1800´s to the present.

PhotoDisc. 50.000 downloadable images, free of charge.

Silverplate: Free digital image archive.

Space Imaging Inc.: Imaging Gallery.

Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, "Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte", newly edited by Moritz Willkomm, about 1887; (web site hosted by Kurt Stüber, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Collection of historic and classical biology books): Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs nach dem Linné'schen System. In German. With 54 colored plates (650 figures)!

John Walker, Satellite data provided by The Living Earth Inc./Earth Imaging: Earth and Moon Viewer. You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe.