Useful Links
The Network has compiled a list of useful links, which have been grouped in three categories: Professional Associations, Translation Tools, and Education. Please do send us an e-mail message if you have comments about or suggestions for this list. But, more than anything else, we need short descriptions and evaluations of all these sites! So if you visit one, come back here and send us a concise assessment of its value.
Professional Associations
International
National
Provincial/Territorial (East to West)
- Association of Translators and Interpreters of Nova Scotia (ATINS)
- Corporation of Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters of New Brunswick (CTINB)
- Ordre des traducteurs et interprètes agréés du Québec (OTIAQ)
- Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario (ATIO)
- Association of Translators and Interpreters of Manitoba (ATIM)
- Association of Translators and Interpreters of Saskatchewan (ATIS)
- Association of Translators and Interpreters of Alberta (ATIA)
- The Society of Translators and Interpreters of British Columbia (S.T.I.B.C.)
Translation Tools
- Altavista's On-line Translation Service
- Base de terminologie du Conseil international de la langue française
- Bell Canada's Glossary of Telecommunications Industry Terms
- DICSEARCH
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
- Dictionnaire francophone en ligne
- Le Dictionnaire LOGOS
- Dictionnaires, lexiques et glossaires (Université de Sherbrooke)
- EXCELLENT!
- Encyclopædia Britannica On-line
- Can be a very useful tool for those willing to pay a subscription fee.
- French Verb Conjugation
- Glossaire informatique des termes de la Commission ministérielle de terminologie informatique
- Glossary of Learning Terminology
- Glossary maintained by CanLearn; has also a French equivalent.
- Leximagne - L'empereur des pages dico
- This exhaustive collection of nearly 650 electronic French dictionaries, glossaries and wordlists gives access to hundreds of thousands of words, terms and expressions. Combined with a CD-delivered lexical database such as TERMIUM and your choice of paper dictionary, a picture-based dictionary (with detailed drawings), it is a fitting and complete tool for all, from student to professional translator.
- Language Dictionaries and Translators
- Lexique des difficultés du français de La Presse
- Le Lexique intermédiaire de Diane Hanson
- Math terminology
- Lexiques en ligne du Bureau de la traduction du gouvernement fédéral
- Mechanical technical dictionary
- Merriam-Webster On-Line
- Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary
- Multilingual Computer Dictionary
- NetGlos Internet Glossary
- Office de la langue française (OLF)
- Language Dictionaries and Glossaries
- ONTERM
- Contains all the official terminology of the Governement of Ontario
- Des ressources sur la toile pour les traducteurs et les terminologues
- Science Dictionaries
- Termium Plus
- Access by subscription only
- The Translator's Home Companion
- Translators Home Page
- TransSearch
- Vocabulaire de l'informatique et de l'Internet de la Délégation générale à la langue française
- A Web of On-Line Dictionaries
- Acronyms in Education and ICT
- Maintained by CEMIS (Centres d'enrichissement en micro-informatique scolaire), this lexicon contains mostly acronyms used in Quebec
- Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
- Canadian Education on the Web
- An exhaustive list of links to school boards, elementary and secondary schools, community colleges, universities, national, provincial and territorial organizations, associations, faculties of education, student newspapers, as well as databases, periodicals, libraries and networks related to education, etc. This is an English-only Web site.
- Provincial and Territorial Departments and Ministries Responsible for Education in Canada
- Official list of all ministries and departments responsible for education in Canada, maintained by theCouncil of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC)
- Postsecondary Education in Canada
- On this Web site, maintained by theCanadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC), can be found, among other things, an overview of postsecondary education in Canada, descriptions of the postsecondary education system in each province and territory, a searchable database of all recognized postsecondary institutions in Canada, information for Canadians who want to study abroad and for foreigners who want to study in Canada, as well as a guide to terminology in usage (in English and in French) in the field of credentials recognition and mobility in Canada.
- Postsecondary Education outside Canada
- Maintained by theCanadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC), this list of links gives access (in various languages) to official descriptions of and information about the education systems of a number of countries around the world.
