http://www.mmm.com/product/acro.html
List of English acronyms and abbreviations

http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html
Another WWW server for acronyms and abbreviations, also searchable for words in the expansions to get the acronym

http://www.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/kopien/abklex.html
Searchable database of English and German acronyms and abbreviations

http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/acronym/
BioTech's chemical acronyms database

http://www.access.digex.net/~ikind/babel.html
English glossary of computer-oriented acronyms and abbreviations (BABEL)

http://haleakala.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/acrom.sh
NASA acronym search engine with over 20,000 terms, focused mainly on the areas of space, remote sensing, data processing, computers, and telecommunications

http://www.mtnds.com/af/
Acronym Finder, a searchable database containing over 73,000 common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/abbscomp
Abbreviations and acronyms to all sorts of chemical compounds

http://wings.buffalo.edu/SBF/thumbtabs.html
English dictionary to electronics and other acronyms

http://www.chemie.de/tools/acronym.php3?language=e
Searchable acronyms and abbrevations database of chemical compound names, in English and German

 Medicine, life sciences:        

GesundheitKompakt.de
Online-Gesundheitsratgeber

medizin.de
Medizinindex Deutschland, an excellent central database with hundreds of links to medical servers in Germany

http://www.medscape.com
Medscape, home of Medline, the prominent American medical abstracts database, plus medical articles, treatments, technologies, drug info and more.

http://www.bracesinfo.com/glossary.html
Orthodontics, an English dictionary of orthodontic and dental terms

http://www.yi.com/home/EysenbachGunther/wb.htm
Medical computer terminology, a German dictionary of computer-related medical and general terminology with acronyms, over 500 entries and many useful cross-links, maintained by Gunther Eysenbach

http://www.rheuma-zentrum.com/abc/abc.htm
Rheumatology, a German dictionary of terms pertaining to rheumatic diseases

http://grinnell.unh.edu/biovrd1.html
Virtual reference desk to biological sciences

http://www.mtdesk.com
English glossary to medical and surgical terminology

http://www.lifeline.de/roche/
On-line searchable version of the respected Roche Lexikon Medixin V. 3.5, in German, often giving the corresponding English term as well

http://www.nrw.de/gen/g_dict.htm
Gene technology, German glossary of gene-technological terms

http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd/index.html
The Online Medical Dictionary, a searchable English medical dictionary

http://www.medicinenet.com/
Health and disease information, follow link to English medical dictionary

http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
BioTech's searchable life sciences English dictionary with close to 4000 terms from medicine and the life sciences

http://www.gelbe-liste.de/index.htm
Gelbe Liste Pharmindex Online, drug and pharmaceuticals information, in German

http://www.lifeline.de/recherche/main_nm.htm
Information about phytopharmaceuticals, medicinal plants etc., in German

http://www.klinik.uni-frankfurt.de/findex_small/
Deutsche Datenquellen Medizin - Frankfurter Index, links to German medical and dental information on the web, in German

http://www.klinik.uni-frankfurt.de/antonius/
Search engine for German medical web resources, in German (ANTONIUS)

http://www.ratiopharm.de/html/otc/lexikon/index.htm
German medical dictionary from ratiopharm, a German manufacturer of pharmaceuticals

http://www.rote-liste.de/
The German compendium on drugs and pharmaceuticals. You need to be a health care professional to register and get access.

http://www.med1.de/Home/
The German on-line forum for medicine and health care topics with many other useful links.

 Chemistry, chemical technology, analytics:        

http://www.pfa.org/glossary.html
Polyurethane plastics, an English glossary and term descriptions to flexible urethane foam

http://www.croklaan.com/spec/spec_glossary.htm
Oils and fats, an English glossary of terminology relating to the processing and analysis of oils and fats

http://germany.trados.com:4712/MTW_LOGON
Euterpe/Multiterm 12-language on-line chemical and technical dictionary with references

http://www.uilondon.org/gloss.htm
English browsable glossary of nuclear terms from the Uranium Institute

http://www.analytik.de/Gemischtes/Datenbanken/index.html
Index of chemical databases, in German

http://www.chemie.de/tools/dictionary/?language=e
Science dictionary for chemistry, searchable in English and German

http://www.chemie.de/web-elements/?language=e
The periodic table of elements on the WWW plus other useful links

 Internet, computing, software:        

http://www.tgpconsulting.com
Silicon Valley Localization Forum, on-line forum, links and information concerning localization issues and software topics

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/msdn/newup/glossary
Microsoft glossaries, bilingual dictionaries with the official translation of strings in Microsoft products (e.g. Windows 95, NT etc.), free to download

http://wwli.com/translation/netglos/netglos.html
NetGlos, the multilingual glossary of Internet terminology with further links

http://www.netlingo.com/
English on-line dictionary of net-related terminology

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
Searchable English on-line dictionary of computing terms (FOLDOC), with other useful links

http://www.commando.de/glossar/
Browsable on-line dictionary of Internet and computing terms (in German), free to download

http://dxsting.cern.ch/sting/glossary.html
STING, an English software engineering glossary from CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics

http://www.sun.com/glossary/glossary.html
Browsable English computing glossary from Sun Microsystems

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~oheiabbd/veramain-e.cgi
VERA search engine for acronyms or other computer related terms

 General bi- and multilingual dictionaries:        

http://www.logos.it
LOGOS dictionary, extensive multilingual database with over 7 million entries in more than a 150 languages, maintained by Logos Translation Co. and continously expanding through user input

http://www.compling.hu-berlin.de/~johannes/dict/brezhoneg
Searchable Breton-German dictionary with approx. 2,600 Bretonic and German words, maintained by Johannes Heinecke

http://www.langenscheidt.de/dictio/dictio.htm
Langenscheidt dictionary, a changing selection of at least one Langenscheidt dictionary on-line

http://search.tu-clausthal.de/WebTrans/
WebTrans dictionary, searchable database for English and German terms and phrases

http://dict.leo.org/cgi-bin/dict-search
LEO dictionary, searchable database with over 170,000 entries for English and German terms, includes the new German orthography reform

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/urz/netz/forms/dict.html
German/English dictionary, over 110,000 entries, searchable in English and German

http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh
German/English dictionary, with over 180,000 translations, searchable in English and German, can also be downloaded

 General monolingual dictionaries and references:        

http://www.eb.com/
Encyclopedia Britannica on the WWW

http://www.thesaurus.com/?
English thesaurus, search Roget's International Thesaurus of the English language

http://www.iicm.edu/ref.m10
Meyers Lexikon - Das Wissen von A - Z, on-line version of Meyers Lexikon, searchable and browsable, in German

 Indexes, listings, compilations of dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias, other databases:        

http://www.onelook.com
General search for entries in 454 dictionaries with over 2 million entries

http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/dict.html
Links to a variety of on-line dictionaries, glossaries, thesauri, almanacs

http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html
Listings of German and other multi- and monolingual dictionaries.

http://refdesk.com/factnet.html
Reference site with links to a variety of Internet resources, incl. dictionaries, databases and encyclopedias

http://dict.leo.org/dict/dictionaries.html
Compilation of various web-accessible dictionaries

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
An index of over 400 on-line dictionaries and glossaries in more than 130 languages

http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/internet/hehl/fachbib.htm
Index of databases to sciences, history, politics, economics etc. (in German)

 Other special topic dictionaries and glossaries:        

http://www.mclink.it/n/nautica/dict/ei.htm
Nautics, an Italian-English dictionary with nautical terminology

http://www.itu.int/itu-database/termite/index.html
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a multilingual (English, French, Russian) dictionary to telecom terminology, links to other on-line dictionaries

http://www.hds-schuh.de
Shoes and leather, a German glossary of various leather types and their uses (in German, follow links to Fashion/Lexikon)

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~oheiabbd/moviedict_e.html
Multilingual, searchable and browsable film dictionary

http://www.ibb-ingenieure.de/woerterbuch/search.cgi
Wörterbuch Aufzugtechnik, a bilingual dictionary to elevator technology, searchable in English and German

http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/paleo/paleogloss/paleogloss.html
English glossary of oceanography and the related geosciences

http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/laliden/WWW/Visionary/Visionary.html
English dictionary for terminology used in the study of human and animal vision, list of other vision related links

http://www.primustel.com/usa/didknow.html
English glossary of telecommunication terms and acronyms.

 German language references:        

http://www.ids-mannheim.de
Institut für Deutsche Sprache, information to the German language, the German orthography reform, catalogues etc. They also publish a quarterly "Sprachreport" about general German language topics.

 General resources for translators:        

http://www.glennsguide.com
Glenn's guide to translation agencies, not only what the name says but also tips and advice for translators and lots of links to dictionaries, databases, organisations etc.

http://www.dino-online.de
DINO - Deutsches InterNet-Organisationssystem, a comprehensive German-language web catalogue of pages upon pages and links to all sorts of topics, e.g. education, finance, sports, culture, arts, politics, media, science etc.

http://www.atanet.org
American Translators Association (ATA), information about the ATA, accreditations, divisions, memberships and more.

http://www.bdue.de
Bund Deutscher Übersetzer, information about the German translators association, with regional organizations, listings of members and a variety of interesting links not only to on-line dictionaries (e.g. Do you need a German postal code? Go there.)

http://www.uni-sb.de/philfak/fb8/fr86/deutsch/www.htm
Universität des Saarlands, page with very useful compilation of web pages of interest for translators incl. mailing lists

http://www.cetrodftt.com/translate.htm
The Language Hub, offers a large selection of multilingual and bilingual dictionaries and glossaries, grouped by type and language; also links to international newspapers, a bookshop etc.

http://www.xplore.com/xplore500/medium/reference.html
Xplore Reference, variety of topics and links, incl. multilingual and monolingual dictionaries, the Internet drug index etc.

http://www.din.de
Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), information on DIN standards in German and English, but not the standards themselves

http://www.sciam.com
Scientific American Online, as the name says, the on-line version of the well-known American science magazine

http://www.spektrum.de
Spektrum der Wissenschaft Online, the German version of Scientific American

 Information to Germany:        

http://www.dhm.de
http://www.hdg.de
Germany past and present, websites of the German Historical Museum (dhm) in Berlin and House of History (hdg) in Bonn with film and audio documents, books, maps, diagrams etc. pertaining to German history. Lots of links to other German, European and world museums.

http://www.bundesregierung.de
German Federal Government, official news, information, data etc. about Germany, the German government, Europe etc.

http://www.dwelle.de
Deutsche Welle, not only information about the radio and TV program of Deutsche Welle but also all sorts of news and information (in German)

http://www.goethe.de
Goethe Institute, information about learning German, about German films, culture and cultural events (in German and English)

 Other Links        

http://aba-tec.com
Electrical Troubleshooting and Repair for the Printing Industry