Last updated March 2009.
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Arlyn Freed's ESL/EFL ESP (English for Specific Purposes)

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Business English

• Handouts Online business English
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Financial Times
• Global-Investor (finance glossary)
• Mike Nelson's Business English (lexis)
• SMIC's vocabulary tests (see "buying", etc.)
• About.com's list of references
• ESL Gold (lots of links)
• E.L. Easton (vocab/dictionaries/quizzes)
• Linguarama (business, sales, etc. quizzes)

 

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Military English

• Military English from the British Council

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English Exams (TOEFL, SPEAK, Cambridge, etc.)

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Banking and Finance

• InvestorWords.com (Glossary)
• OneStop Magazine's lesson plans (PDF files)
• About.com (vocabulary)
 • BNet (links to articles on many subjects)
• EconEdLink (glossary)
• Hotscripts.com (links to glossaries and dictionaries)
• E.L. Easton (vocabulary, dictionaries, quizzes)

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Medical English

• NEW! Martindale’s Virtual Medical Center
• NEW! Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Digital Library
• NEW! The DAVE Project - Gastroenterology
• NEW! The Interactive Patient: You are the doctor and ask the “patient” questions
• NEW! Digital Anatomist Project
• NEW! Medware: Shockwave movies related to years I & II medical college
• NEW! Surgical-Tutor: Tutorials and slide galleries
• NEW! Radiographic Anatomy of the Skeleton
• Clemente Susini's Wax Anatomical Models
• MedLine Plus Tutorials
• Intro to Medical Terminology (Prentice Hall textbook companion site)
• Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources (U of Michigan links)
• NeuroLogic Exam (Video Lectures in Neurology)
• HyperBrain (NeuroAnatomy Glossary)
• EnglishMed
• BioMed Central (open access publisher)
• Women's Health (cancer)
• Gray's Anatomy
• Herbal Encyclopedia
• MedicineNet (medical dictionary)
• Illustrated Anatomy
• National Library of Medicine
• NSW Health (articles index)
• Cancer Web (medical dictionary)
• Cancer Web (info about cancer)
• The Self-Study Course
• Medical Glossary
• Esaurus (Chinese-English medical dictionary)
• Medical Dictionary
• Topics in Medical English (by Jack Kimball)
• Medical Encyclopedia (with illustrations)
• UMM Medical Encyclopedia
• EnglishMed activities for Pharmacists
• Medical Terminology (with pronunciation)
• Free Medical Journals
• MediLexicon (articles)
• Armenian Medical Network (articles)
• Gastrointestinal Medical Image Database
• NSW Health (articles)
• NetStoreUSA (books on medical topics)

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Dentistry English

• NEW! Waldman Memorial Library at New York University: Online articles
• Adult and Pediatric Dentistry
• CDA.org (dentistry procedures explained, multilingual)
• Web dental office (dental advice)
• Web dental office (dental quiz)
• NSW Health (articles)
• Spellex Dental (software - spellcheck)
• Dental Books (see "Dentistry" in index)

 

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Engineering English

• NEW! Martindale Center list of links for Engineering
• Writing for Engineers
• How Stuff Works

 

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Science English

• NEW! ABPI (Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry): Interactive Content
• NEW! English for Science and Technology Online
• NEW! The Biology Project, University of Arizona
• NEW! Botany: Directory of Links
• NEW! Anatomy & Physiology, Biology, and Microbiology: Animations and Tutorials (Lone Star College)
• NEW! The Human Body: Interactive from BBC
• NEW! The Mind: Interactive from BBC
• Cells Alive! (interactive biology)
• Writing for Science
• SciDevNet (see dossiers and Quick Guides)
• BioMed Central (open access publisher)
• links to science magazines
• links for Chemists (from www library)
• Earth Changes TV (breaking news)
• Resource list for Chemistry Teaching
• General Science links
• More Chemistry links
• Marine Sciences
• Cell and Molecular Biology (dictionary)
• Biology Online
• Bio-Tech (with illustrated dictionary)
• Science and Technology (reference desk.com)
• Buthaina Al Othman's Science links
• Physics Encyclopedia
• Physics Virtual Library
• "English for Science" (textbook)
• Basics of DNA Fingerprinting
• USDS Biotechnology Topics
• Science Daily

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Food & Cooking English

• NEW! Wikibooks: Cookbooks
• The Cook's Thesaurus
• Baking 911.com (baking glossary)
• Epicurious (dictionary)

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English for Academic Purposes --Humanities

• NEW! Luis Arcelio’s Links for Astronomy, Physics, Biology, Microbiology and more
• EdHeads - Virtual Knee Surgery (biology & medical)
• Vitural - A Walk in the Forest (biology & plants)
• Windows to the Universe (astronomy, geology & physics)
• English for Science (grammar, audio practice & more)
• Using English for Academic Purposes
• Coastline Community College's Online Courses
• Directory of Open Access Journals (all subjects)
• Intute Arts and Humanities (humanities - all subjects)
• Annenberg CP/Learner.org (all subjects)
• Encyclopedia of Psychology
• • Online Dictionary of Social Sciences
• University of Michigan's digital library
• Law links and dictionary
• Karen Schwelle's Law Links
• Technology and Engineering (construction, etc.)
• How Stuff Works
• Brainpop (all subjects)
• Canadian Geographic (all subjects)
• GeometryNet (all subjects)
• European Space Agency (environment and space)
• Space.com
• Kid's Astronomy

 

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Computers and the Internet

• NEW! Technology Enriched Teaching and Learning: Lessons online
• Glossary of Computing Terms
• NEW! Social Media Glossary
• The Sharpened Glossary
• The Internet Animated Internet

 

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Glossaries

• NEW! Marine Biology Glossary
• NEW! Financial Risk Glossary
• NEW! Genetic Terms Glossary
• NEW! Furniture Terms Glossary
• NEW! Educational Technology Glossary
• NEW! RN / Nursing Abbreviations Defined
• NEW! English for Work: Definitions of words used for Cashiers, Housekeepers, Hotel Staff, Airline Staff, Food & Drink, Medical & Police
• BBC Sport Cricket Glossary (cricket)
• Glossary of Grammar Terms (English Grammar)
• ATS Glossary/Lexicon Agent (insurance, bio, medical, life sciences,...)
• Swiss Watch (watch repair)
• Boggle's World (ESL glossary)
• Medical Glossary

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Dictionaries

• NEW! AlphaDictionary
• NEW! Legal / Law Dictionary
• NEW! Speech Internet Dictionary: technical terms used in phonetics, phonology, speech and hearing science
• The Urban Dictionary (slang)
• • Collocation (links to...)
• Collocation (practice quiz)
• Merriam-Webster (with audio)
• Internet Picture Dictionary (with links to kids dictionaries)
• Wordsmyth
• Manythings.org (multiple dictionaries look up words)
• • Online Dictionary of Social Sciences
• Language Dictionaries and Translators (many languages)
• Wikipedia (encyclopedia)
• Business and Finance
• Cancer Web (medical dictionary)
• Esaurus (Chinese-English medical dictionary)
• Medical Dictionary

 

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Vocabulary

• NEW! Word Spy: Guide to New Words
• About.com's Advanced Vocabulary
• How to build a better Vocabulary (primer)
• Learning Vocabulary can be Fun (for ESL and K-12)
• • Vocabulary Test (click "new" and "okay")
• Paul Nation's level tests (academic word lists)
• SMIC's tests (advanced)
• Handouts Online (for general vocabulary topics)
• Vocabulary for EAP
• Wordsurfing (many activities for learning vocabulary)
• LanguageGuide.org (many topics for beginners)
• Magnetic Poetry games (a lot of fun)
• Crossword Puzzles for Studying English
• E.L. Easton quizzes (all subjects)
• Linguarama (business, sales, etc. quizzes)

 

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