Langenscheidt Online Dictionaries

Our license for Langenscheidt online will be continued in 2012. The following dictionaries are still available:

  • a set of concise dictionaries (German – foreign language)
  • a set of technical dictionaries (German – foreign language, including physics and chemistry)
  • some titles of the Duden series
  • Pocket dictionary English – Chinese

Some more licensed monolingual dictionaries and encyclopedias:

Free services:

New open access policy in UK

The UK science minister, David Willetts, has announced a new policy: All publicly funded scientific research must be published open access. The Guardian reports:
Results of publicly funded research will be open access

The policy is published in the government document Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth. It says:
“The Research Councils expect the researchers they fund to deposit published articles or conference proceedings in an open access repository at or around the time of publication.” (pp. 77)