LEARNING RESOURCES CENTRE

Links to relevant websites per subject


Business Management Resources
Economics & Finance
Environmental Studies
Food & Beverage Management
General Reference
Law
Mathematics
Languages


Business Management Resources

European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research

Penn World Tables The tables currently comprise data for 152 countries and 29 subjects.

CAROL This is a free corporate online service providing access to UK, USA, European and Asian company annual accounts.

Economic Statistics Briefing Room This provides a link to the White House web site which provides access to current US economic data.

Asia Pacific Management Forum From here you can access information about Asia as well market research information on the individual countries. It is also an excellent source of international and Asian business journals. They include articles, abstracts and citations.

Hoover's Corporate Directory This directory allows you to access basic information for more than 10,000 companies in more than 35 countries. It is provided by The Washington Post.


Economics & Finance

Penn World Tables The tables currently comprise data for 152 countries and 29 subjects.

Economic Statistics Briefing Room This provides a link to the White House web site which provides access to current US economic data.

The European Business Directory

Economic Growth Resources

Nijenrode Business Information Services

Financial Times Online

Euromoney World Link

Economagic.com Economic Time Series Page

All about Value-at-Risk Value-at-risk is a tool for measuring financial risk used by major bank and non-bank financial institutions and many non-financial firms.

Biz/ed A dedicated business and economics gateway for students, teachers and lecturers.

Country Watch
Comprehensive, up-to-date political, economic, cultural, business and environmental information and data in their Country Reviews.

Resources for Economists on the Internet: RFE
"This guide is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists 1,194 resources in 68 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all resources are also described."


Environmental Studies

Residua Publisher of Warmer Bulletin and secretariat to the UK Resource Recovery Forum (RRF).

Friends of the Earth Environmental Information Services on the Net

National Environmental Research Council

Country Watch
Comprehensive, up-to-date political, economic, cultural, business and environmental information and data in their Country Reviews.

Natural Resources Defense Council
The site contains up-to-the-minute news and information on the globe's natural resources (such as parks, forests, oceans, and lakes) as well as some of its biggest challenges, like global warming and clean cities.

Global Water Partnership The mission of the Global Water Partnership is to "support countries in the sustainable management of their water resources"

Electronic Green Journal Professional journal on international Environmental Information.


Food & Beverage Management

CAMRA The Campaign for Real Ale home page

World Wine List

Internet Food Channel

Coffee World The No. 1 coffee resource on the web.

Wine Spectator "The most comprehensive wine web site in the world"

Wine.com Online wine shop

Food.com

Cigars.com Top 40 Cigar Sites

Greek Cuisine Recipes, cookbooks and restaurants

Robin Garr's wine lovers' page


General Reference

Public Speaking & Speech Writing A free guide to speech writing.

Language Dictionaries and Translators

The Argus Clearinghouse This was formally known as the Clearinghouse for Subject-Orientated Internet Resource Guides. You will find some relevant files in the Business & Employment section and the Recreation, Social Sciences and Social Issues sections of the Clearinghouse.

BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries) The British information service. This is a very comprehensive A-Z listing of sites with many links to relevant sites such as Food & Drink, Marketing and Travel.

SOSIG The Social Sciences Information Gateway, which provides access to information sources across the networks.

Encyclopaedia Britannica This new resource from the publishers of Encyclopaedia Britannica is excellent, not only to be able their up-to-date documentation, but it also give you links to other useful URL's on the subject.

Cite them Right! Never be caught out again for not citing a reference correctly. This site published by Graham Shields and Graham Walton at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle is a definitive guide to keep you safe when writing your bibliography.

Online Newspapers - American Journalism Review There are now over 5000 newspapers online and they can be accessed by this site. All you need to do is select your continent, your country and the papers available to you will be listed.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
(just type the word you are looking for in the box below and click with the mouse on search)

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

One Look Dictionaries Searches some hundreds of general and specialist dictionaries.

CountryWatch
Comprehensive, up-to-date political, economic, cultural, business and environmental information and data in their Country Reviews.

Real World Magazine A magazine that's designed to help you make the decision's about your future before you graduate.


Law

FindLaw FindLaw - Law, Lawyers, Attorneys and Legal Resources

Nolo Law for All "Whether you want to clean up your credit or form a corporation, we've got hundreds of answers to your legal questions."

AllRefer.com A hub of up-to-date and authoritative educational information including articles and reference materials.  Major topics include earth & environment, history, literature & arts, health & medicine, people, philosophy & religion, science & technology, social science, law, sports, etc.

American Law Sources On-Line   Comprehensive, uniform and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States, Canada and Mexico.

CataLaw  Self-described "catalog of catalogs of worldwide law on the Internet" is searchable by topic or region.

Federal Judicial centre  Many FJC publications are available for free download at this site.

The Guide to Law Online Prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information.



Mathematics

Math Goodies Newsletter "Subscribe to our free e-newsletter to get the latest information about new lessons, site updates, math news, articles, and events. Our newsletter is e-mailed to more than 10,000 subscribers around the world on the 1st and 15th of each month. It is our policy to inform subscribers of new lessons and major site updates first."

Mathematical Sciences Digital Library: MathDL The Mathematical Sciences Digital Library is an online resource managed by the Mathematical Association of America with funding by the National Science Foundation. The Library is hosted by the Math Forum. The site provides online resources for both teachers and students of collegiate mathematics.

Mathwright Library The Mathwright Library is a free collection of interactive mathematics and science books that you bring to your own desktop from the web, and then read at your leisure.


Languages

English
French
Spanish
German



English

Business English Special Interest Group of IATEFL The English forum for teachers of English for business and professional purposes

TEFL links

TESL-EJ Teaching English as a second language or as a foreign language

ESL links for students



French

French books in print

French & English Language Resources

French Studies Web

HAPAX French Resources on the Web



Spanish

Teaching 2nd languages in General

Ministry of Education and Culture

Meteo Information

Work Office anywhere in the world


Asociaciones

http://www2.uji.es/aesla/paginf.html (AESLA)

http://www.aeea.es (Asociacion de escuelas de espanol en Andalucia)


Foros

http://cvc.cervantes.es/foros (Foros Cervantes)

http://listserv.rediris.es/archives/infoling.html (INFOLING En Espana)

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/infoling.html (INFOLING en EE.UU)

http://www.rediris.es/list/info/formespa.html (FORMESPA Nueva lista de distribucion. Formacion del profesorado de espanol como lengua extranjera)


Centros Oficiales

http://www.mec.es (Ministerio de Educacion y Cultura)

http://www.ole.es/Paginas/Gobiernos/Espa@na (informacion sobre embajadas, consulados...)
Information about embassies and consulates

http://www.gencat.es/diari/llista.htm (Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya)

http://www.boe.es (Boletin Oficial del Estado)

http://www.inem.es (INEM. Para encontrar las direcciones de la oficina de trabajo de cada pais y el codigo del mismo

http://www.spainembedu.org (Consejeria de Educacion de la Embajada de Espana en Washington DC)



German

Deutsche Welle

German Business Net

German Studies Web

Institut Für Deutsche Sprache