Writing links
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LANGUAGES
ONLINE TRANSLATORS
Several languages from/to English and English/Spanish-Spanish/English: http://www.online-translator.com/text.asp?lang=es
Catalan-Spanish-English-French-German: http://www.grec.cat/cgibin/mlt00.pgm?USUARI=comodi&source=XW
DICTIONARIES
Wiktionary: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page
Multilingual
The formerly known as "EURODICAUTOM" Term Bank. All EU languages, search by domain: http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/
English
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
http://www.wordreference.com/ (also Bilingual Dictionary Spanish, French, Portuguese...)
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm (also Spanish-English)
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://www.visuwords.com/ (useful as a Thesaurus)
http://www.xiaolai.net/ocd/ - Oxford collocations dictionary -- study of something? study on something? study into something? In OCD you'll find the answer !
Catalan
Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana: http://www.grec.net/home/cel/dicc.htm
CercaTerm: http://www.termcat.cat/
Diccionari Institut d'Estudis Catalans: http://dlc.iec.cat/
Corrector d'ortografia: http://www.softcatala.org/corrector/
Consulta dubtes: http://www6.gencat.net/llengcat/scripts/sial/menuas.asp
Spanish
Diccionario de la RAE: http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/
Chemistry Dictionaries
Multilingual: http://www.woc.science.ru.nl/translation/
STYLE
The Chicago Manual of Style: to check spelling, how to write citations etc http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org
For citations also check: http://pubs.acs.org/books/references.shtml (We have got a copy of the ACS Style Manual).