Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Links for dictionaries and encyclopedias useful for your studies.
Library recommendations
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Online dictionaries for many different languages. The service include both general and specialised dictionaries, such as:
MOT Sanakirjat® (44 languages), dictionaries from Oxford University Press and NE, MOT Kääntäjä® (machine translation) and MOT Kielentarkistin® (language check).
MOT Dictionaries works on all units, also outside of the ÅUAS network.
Use HAKA Login to access MOT Dictionaries.
- Visit www.sanakirja.fi and click on Log in in the upper right-hand corner.
- Choose Högskolan på Åland from the drop-down menu and click on HAKA Login.
- Log in using your ÅUAS account.
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Encyclopedia in Swedish. Also includes Nationalencyklopedins dictionary.
Dictionaries
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The EU’s multilingual terminology database, in 24 European languages: Swedish, English, Finnish, Spanish, German, Greek, Polish, etc.
Medical dictionaries
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Svensk MeSH is a translation of MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), which is the controlled vocabulary produced and maintained by NLM (U.S. National Library of Medicine). Karolinska institutet. (in Swedish, limited content in English)
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Snomed CT is an international clinical reference terminology.
(Recommended browser: Google Chrome. Does not work in Internet Explorer).
Search SNOMED CT Browser