I.  Internet Resources

1. Search Engines
2. Lists, Links and General Resources
3. Institutions and Organizations
4. Texts: Press Releases
5. Official Texts
6. Glossaries
7. Contracts and U.S. Legal Forms
8. Patents
9. Bulletin Board, Newsgroups

Google. http://www.google.com/

Dogpile Multi-Engine Search Tool
Dogpile searches 10 of the largest search engines on the Internet at once. http://www.dogpile.com/

AltaVista Search: French or English Query
http://www.altavista.com

Excite http://www.excite.com/

Excite France http://www.excite.fr/

Francité - French search engine.  http://www.i3d.qc.ca/francite.htm

Guide Internet INDEXA - French search engine http://www.indexa.fr/

Lycos Home Page http://www.lycos.com/

Yahoo! France http://www.yahoo.fr/
 

Hapax: French Resources on the Web
Major French law site on the Internet. http://hapax.be.sbc.edu/

Jérôme Rabenou
One of the most useful sites for French law on the Internet.  Includes extensive list of links to other sites, French legal texts, Codes and sample corporate documents in French. Rabenou link sites:

AdmiNet - The French Connection
A very comprehensive French-language site and starting point for information on nearly any subject.
Interesting links include European Union, Francophonie and Law.  Under Law, click on fin or jus at top of page for additional links to finance and justice.
http://www.adminet.com/

Liens aux organisations internationales gouvernementales sur l'Internet
Banque mondiale; Fonds Monétaire International ; Organisation Météorologique Mondiale ;  Organisation Mondiale De La Propriété Intellectuelle; Organisation Mondiale De La Santé ; ensemble de l'Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU) ; Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (ONU-PNUD) ;  Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN);  Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture (UNESCO ); Communautés européennes ; Commission européenne.  http://www.sdm.qc.ca/centre/liens/liens.html

Meta-Index for Legal Research
Search databases for US judicial opinions, legislation, federal regulation and other legal sources.
http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/

Links to Internet Resources for Translators and Interpreters.
Links to many sites in following categories: organizations, terminology, universities, chat groups.
http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c6/c613/tranlink.html

Indiana University World Wide Web Virtual Library
The Virtual Library is a collection of links to related websites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject.  Search the virtual library by organization type (i.e. U.S. Government Servers) or legal topic (i.e. Contracts).  http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/

Tufts University Legal Links
Links to 100+ sites relating to International Law and Economics
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/inter_resources/researchresources.html

La Banque de France http://www.banque-france.fr/

The Council of Europe http://www.consilium.europa.eu/

The European Union
The official server of the Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors and other bodies of the European Union.  http://europa.eu.int/index-en.htm

République Française : Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie
http://www.finances.gouv.fr/

Les Nations Unies: Page d'accueil http://www.un.org/french/

UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Home Page.  Access to press releases, information and documentation services.  Links to Legal Instruments. http://www.unesco.org/

World Trade Organization
On-line documents, Publications, Legal Texts, Press Releases.  http://www.wto.org/

English

Finance & Development Quarterly (English)
The quarterly publication of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.  Free access to articles, reports and commercial texts.  http://www.worldbank.org/fandd/

International Finance Corporation: Press (English)
Search database of press releases by year, region or industry.
http://www.ifc.org/publications

Transition: The Newsletter of Emerging Economies (English/Russian)
By the International Monetary Fund.  Each edition contains 20+ articles about economics in emerging and developing economies.  http://www.worldbank.org/html/prddr/trans/archives.htm

United Nations Press Releases
Access French and English press releases from the United Nations.
http://www0.un.org/apps/pressreleases/

World Bank: Publications (Engish)
Home Page for accessing World Bank Publications. http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/

English/French

Canada NewsWire Ltd.  (French/English)
Canada's real-time news release database on the Internet. This is the largest news release database in Canada with approximately 50,000 news releases accessed daily in over 75 countries.
http://www.newswire.ca/

The European Union: Press Releases (English and French) http://europa.eu/press_room/index_en.htm

Int'l Chamber of Commerce: A few public documents (French/English)
http://www.iccwbo.org/display7/doctype1/index.html

UNESCO International bibliography of translations (French/English/Spanish)
Search database of UN translations. http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

UNESCO Press Releases (French/English)
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2902&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

French

Banque de France: Actualités (français)
Actualités et Publications.  http://www.banque-france.fr/fr/instit/discours/discours.htm

Ministère de l'Economie: Presse (français)
l'Accès aux bases de données des communiqués de presse.  Téléchargement des rapports officiels.
http://www.finances.gouv.fr/presse/

Le Monde diplomatique
Articles from Le Monde Diplomatique indexed by country.
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/index/pays/

Les Nations Unies: Presse (français/anglais)
United Nations Press Service, hundreds of articles daily from all UN services.
http://www.un.org/french/news/

Les Nations Unies: Communiqué de Presse
http://www.un.org/french/apps/pressreleases/

France

Jérôme Rabenou: Codes
Includes Code Civil, Code Pénal, Code de la Route, Code de Commerce, Code de Procédure Pénale, Code des Débits de Boisson, Code de Déontologie Médicale, Code de la Consommation, Code de l'Organisation Judiciaire, Code de Santé Publique [Ordre Médecins], Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle, Code des Postes et Télécommunications  http://www.rabenou.org/divers/codes.htm

Jérôme Rabenou: Textes Juridiques
Textes de Loi, Décrets, Règlements, Rapports, Circulaires, Mémoires, Articles, Statuts-types. . .
http://www.rabenou.org/divers/textes.htm

Ministère de l'Economie: Textes officiels en langue française de l'économie et des finances
Règlementation : Code des Marchés Publics, Code des Impôts, Les Instructions Comptables.
International : textes fondateurs du Conseil de l'Europe, des conventions fiscales.
http://www.finances.gouv.fr/

Ministère de l'Economie: Textes officiels en langue française du passage à la monnaie unique
Règlements, Projets de loi, Textes de référence, calendrier.
http://www.finances.gouv.fr/euro/

U.S. House of Reps. - Internet Law Library - France (French/English)
Links to hundreds of major French legal texts in French and English: the Constitution, treaties, trade agreements, Journal Officiel, laws and legal decisions.
http://law.house.gov/60.htm

World

Textes fondateurs de l'Union européenne
Acte Unique, Traité sur l'Union Européenne, projet de Traité d'Amsterdam, etc.
http://europa.eu.int/abc-fr.htm

Base de données des Nations Unies sur les Traités (français/anglais)
http://www.un.org/Depts/Treaty/trait.htm

Textes Officiels des Nations Unies (français/anglais)
Charte, Déclarations, Lois  http://www.un.org/french/docs/

Internet Law Library - Treaties/International law (English)
Links to hundreds of official International Law texts, treaties, trade agreements, conventions, declarations, international court decisions.  http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/

Canada

Canadian Official Legislative Materials (French/English)
Includes Candian government codes, regulations, debates and legal journals/gazettes in French and English  http://www.acjnet.org/nacanadian/legislative.aspx

Legal/Diplomatic

Dictionnaire de droit privé (français)
375 termes.  Dictionnaire du site Serge Braudo.  Réseau AdmiNet.  Useful definitions
http://www.dictionnaire-juridique.com/

Glossaire de l'Union Européenne
150 longues definitions des termes relatifs à l'Union Européenne.  Easy cross-referencing allows you to link directly to related terms.  http://europa.eu/scadplus/glossary/index_fr.htm

Glossaire Immobilier d'Achat Conseil (français)
75+ termes.  Définitions encyclopédiques des points importants du financement du logement, de la fiscalité immobilière, du processus d'achat ou de vente d'un logement. http://www.immobrussels.be/fr/dico/glossaire-all

Vocabulaire de procédure parlementaire (Canada)(français/anglais)
Préparé par la Direction des recherches pour le Bureau de la Chambre des communes.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/glossary/gloss-f.htm

Commercial

Lexique budgétaire et fiscal (français)
100+ termes.  Page officielle du Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie.
http://www.minefi.gouv.fr/fonds_documentaire/pole_ecofin/finances_Etat/LF/2003/plf/lexique.htm

Finance Canada. Glossaire de termes financiers et commerciaux (français/anglais)
300+ paragraph-length definitions of most commonly used economic terms and concepts in English and French.  Areas covered: Économie; Marchés financiers; Politique budgétaire, déficit, dette, dépenses et recettes publiques; Transferts fédéraux-provinciaux; Sécurité sociale, Revenu de retraite; Fiscalité; Marché de l'emploi; Productivité; http://www.fin.gc.ca/gloss/gloss-e.html

Glossaire des termes financiers (français)
250+ terms en français par Groupe Investors
http://www.groupeinvestors.com/francais/produits/placements/terms.htm

Lexique économique (français)
100+ termes.  De l'Université de Moncton, Faculté des sciences sociales.
http://www.umoncton.ca/gemeap/lexique.html

Multilingual, Miscellaneous

EURODICAUTOM: "A Translator's best friend on the Web"  (French/English)
Allows you to select source and target languages and query database of terms in all subject areas.  Includes definitions, examples in context, abbreviations, etc. http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller

Jérôme Rabenou: Adages (latin/français)
Adages: Dictionnaire des expressions et locutions latines utilisées en droit.
http://www.rabenou.org/divers/adages.htm

The American Standard Legal Forms
Contains Litigation and Transactional forms. http://www.ogc1.umn.edu/stellent/groups/public/documents/webasset/contractlibraryhome.hcst

CataLaw: Business and Legal Forms (English)
Scrool down and link to sites containing legal and business forms.
http://CataLaw.com/topics/Forms.shtml

The 'Lectric Law Library's Forms Room
Legal Forms in Business and Law, Real Estate, Employment Matters, Probate, etc.
http://www.lectlaw.com/form.html

SEC Edgar Filing Archive
Search, view, download and print financial statements and forms filed with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by U.S. and foreign corporations. http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcurrent or search in their archives http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar

Quo Jure Legal Form Archive
The site includes examples of a number of documents classified by document type, subject matter and date.  http://www.quojure.com/samples/by_document_type/

Jérôme Rabenou: Textes juridiques divers
French Codes, corporate bylaws and minutes, decrees and other legal texts in French.
http://www.rabenou.org/divers/textes.htm

STO's Patent Search System Site
This is the home page for Source Translation & Optimization's (STO) Internet Patent Search System, a way for people around the world to perform patent searches and access information on the patenting process.  Find patent titles by scrolling through the list and selecting the class and subclasses from general to specific (i.e., Machinery: Manufacturing: Wheelwright Machines), or enter the class/subclass codes as used in the Index to the U.S. Manual of Classifications (ex: 363-131).
http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html

IBM Patent Server
Most comprehensive U.S. Patent site.  Allows you to access over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions.  Search by words (e.g. elevator, robot, twin-engine, John Smith, etc.), or scroll down to perform an alternative or boolean search.
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/

United States Patent and Trademark Offices's free patent databases.
These include both the US Patent Bibliographic Database (a freely searchable database of front page information from US patents issued from 1976-1997), and the AIDS Patent Database (a freely searchable database of the full text and images of AIDS related patents issued by the US, Japanese and European patent offices). http://patents.uspto.gov/

European Patent Office Internet Resources
Scroll down list to view links classified by the following categories: Patent offices, Database hosts offering patent databases, Patents classification systems, Useful European connections, and similar sources. http://www.european-patent-office.org/online/index.htm

LANTRA: Translator and Interpreter Listserve
This electronic mailing list for translators and interpreters allows you to ask questions about terms and receive quick answers from professional translators.  Expect to receive approximately 100+ e-mail messages daily.  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7110/ltr2.htm
To subscribe, go to listserv@segate.sunet.se

The Law Office: Electronic Bulletin Board
Allows you to post questions to an electronic bulletin board.  First, click on the area of law.  Next, click on Bulletin Board to access the bulletin board.  Submit a question by clicking on the Add icon at the top of the screen.  Replies will be posted back at this page (or have them sent to your e-mail address by leaving your address in original message). http://www.thelawoffice.com/

Francopholistes : l'annuaire des listes de diffusion francophones
Subscribe to receive messages via your e-mail about specific topics.  Scroll area of interest and subscribe to group by clicking on s'abonner.  (There is a terminology group under the Langue et Litérature section.)  http://www.francopholistes.com

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