Language and documentary material in English

Aids for external translators

National websites

English and Irish Institutional Sites

• BAILLI: British & Irish Legal Information Institute
• NATLEX - national labour, social security and related human rights legislation

Ireland

• Constitution
• Government of Ireland
• Guide to Irish Law (LLRX)
• Irish Law Site
• Irish Statute Book

United Kingdom

• Government Online
• Government Offices' Websites
• Government Guide - UK
• Legislation
• Parliament
• UK Legal: Law resources at your fingertips
• UK Official Documents

Other links from the UK and Ireland

Ireland

• Ireland and Irish Things
• Ireland's official Tourist Office
• Irish Sites Directory

United Kingdom

• British Information
• UK Directory

Style and Grammar Guides, language campaigns

• Clear writing campaigns
  • Fight the Fog (EuropeanCommission)
  • In the UK

• English Style Guide — Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) in-house style guide

  • What's new [updated: 9-6-2008]

     

Online dictionaries, term banks and glossaries

Dictionaries & encyclopedias

• Cambridge dictionaries

• Webster Dictionary

• Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia

• Affixes: the building blocks of English

Multilingual dictionaries

• AllWords.com
• Cambridge Dictionaries
• Dicnet - Link to general and specialised dictionaries 
• Dictionary.com
• Dictionaries on the Internet - Links to dictionaries and free machine translation
• Dictionaries on the Web
• Ectaco.com - Multilingual dictionary including Bulgarian
• Eurodict - Multilingual dictionary
• Free dictionary (English from and to Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish)
• From Language to language
• ITU (International Telecommunication Union) - French-English-Spanish-Russian   
• Language automation - Link list
• Lexicool - Links to over 700 translation dictionaries and glossaries
• LexiLogos - Biilingual and multilingual dictionaries
• LookWAYup online dictionary and thesaurus
• Mike's Collection of Web-Dictionaries
• Omniglot Online Dictionaries
• Online-dictionary.biz
• Online Film Dictionary
• PONSline (English, French, German, Polish)
• Portail Eurêka - Free linguistic resources
• University of Paderborn (D)
• Wikiled Dictionary
• WordReference.com
• Word2Word.com
• YourDictionary.com

Bilingual dictionaries

Bulgarian - English

• Bulgarian-English on-line dictionary (Ectaco)
• English-Bulgarian dictionary of foundry engineering

Czech - English

• English - Czech Dictionary

Danish - English

• Peter's Translation Links - mainly English, German and Danish

Dutch - English

• Ectacto Online Dictionary
• LookWAYUp English to Dutch Dictionary
• Travlangs English-Dutch Online Dictionary

Finnish - English

• English-Finnish Dictionary
• Finnish-English Dictionary Online

French - English

• Bilingual French-English Dictionary
• WordReference English-French Dictionary 

German - English

• Dict.cc Online Translation
• LEO English - German
• Linguatec
• Student Online - German - English - Spanish
• TU Chemnitz - German - English Dictionary
• TU Dresden - German - English Dictionary

Greek - English

• Kypros.org Greek - English
• Mercury Research Systems - Greek Online Dictionaries

Hungarian - English

• MTA SZTAKI - English - Hungarian
• Transylvania.Info - Hungarian - English - Romanian
• Keresés Hungarian - English Dictionary
• Peter Fornai's English - Hungarian Dictionary

Italian - English

• R-O-Matic Italian - English Dictionary
• WordReference Dictionary English-Italian

Latvian - English

• Languages on the Web: Latvian
• Latvian-English/English-Latvian Dictionary

Lithuanian - English

• Alkonas Fotonija

Polish - English

• Ectaco Online Dictionary
• Polish-English-Polish dictionaries, termbanks and glossaries

Russian - English

• diclib.com - Russian, English, Russian-English/English-Russian & Spanish dictionaries & encyclopedias

Slovak - English

• Slovak-English-Slovak on-line dictionary

Turkish - English

• Zargan On-line dictionary

Term banks & glossaries

• Accountant Terminology
• AGROVOC (agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains)
• Archaeological Terms (Bulgarian, Romanian, English)
• Aqua Lingua
• Bio-Society Glossary
• Biotechnology and genetic engineering
• Budget (EU Terminology)
• CILF - Terminology bank of the International Council of the French language: modern French. Available in English, German and Spanish
• Codecision Glossary (EU Terminology)
• Competition Glossary (EU Terminology)
• CRITER - Corpus of the Terminology Interministerial Network, 3000 French terms, definitions and translations - French-English 
• Customs glossary
• Data Protection Glossary
• Deardorff 's Glossary of International Economics
• Economy glossary (Biz/ed)
• EEA glossary - 600 environmental terms with definitions and translations into the EEA-languages
• EMIRE: European Employment and Industrial Relations Glossary
• EPER Chemicals Glossary
• European Convention Glossary
• European Judicial Network in Civil and Commercial Matters Glossary
• European Maritime Safety Glossary
• EURYDICE - European Education Thesaurus
• External Trade Glossary
• FAO fisheries glossary
• FAOTERM - FAO terminology  Database  in Arab, Chinese, English, French and Spanish
• Financial terms (International Monetary Fund)
• French education system glossary
• IATE - Interactive Terminology for Europe
• IMF Terminology - Terminology database of the International Monetary Fund
• Information Society Glossary
• International Labour Standards (ILO)
• Internet Terminology Sites of JIAMCATT Partners
• Justice and Home Affairs: glossary (EU Terminology)
• Language Automation - Glossaries by language
• Legal terms
• Le grand dictionnaire terminologique - Office de langue française (OLF), collection of 3 million terms of 200 domains in French and English
• Le Signet - 6 000 bilingual documents in the information technologies sector; English-French
• Network and Information Security Glossary
• PHARE/Enlargement Glossary
• Public Procurement Common Vocabulary
• Regional Development Glossary (EU Terminology)
• Research (EU Terminology)
• Statistical terms - Multilingual glossary by the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• Swedish Parliamentary Terminology: Glossary
• Technical and popular medical terms
• Technical and Scientific Information Service (French, English, Spanish)
• Terms & Acronyms in Daily Use in Ireland
• Terminology Banks Catalogue - Rint: Réseau international de néologie et de terminologie
• Terminology database - French, German, English and Dutch
• Translation of Irish Terms
• Wine-making terminology (Bulgarian-English)
• World bird database
• WTO terminology (English, French, Spanish)