WESSWEB, the Web service of the Western European Specialists Section,Association of College and Research Libraries

Scandinavian Studies Web: Reference Shelf

Associations, Organizations

Nobel Foundation - includes up-to-date information on prizes and events
Svenska Institutet - information about the institute, plus an excellent collection of links to Swedish sources
 

Dictionaries & Grammars


Dictionaries and Translators (Rivendell)
Language Dictionaries (Martindale)
Ordböcker och Lexikon (Svenska Institutet)
Retskrivningsordbogen på nettet (Dansk Sprognævn) - spell-checking service from the institute responsible for following the Danish language
travlang's Translating Dictionaries
Mofile Dictionary (Finnish-English/English-Finnish)
YourDictionary.com (formerly A Web of Online Dictionaries

Encyclopedias

caplex.net (Cappelen) - the first Norwegian web encyclopedia

General Country and Tourist Information

The Nordic FAQ - a very good source of information about the Nordic countries, from the Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.nordic
The Nordic Pages - although a number of these pages are under construction, there are useful links among them
CIA World Factbook - includes geographical, government, statistical information
Atlas of the World - Europe (country and area maps)
World Atlas - includes country information
Xerox PARC Map Viewer
CityNet Denmark (Excite)
Hvor.dk - clickable map of Denmark that allows zooming in to see specific cities
Faroe Islands Travel Guide
Åland Internet Guide
 

Directories

Swedish Internet Directories (Swedish Trade Council)
 

Other Web Gateways

Electronic Resources for the Scandinavian Scholar (SASSLink)
 


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Scandinavian Studies Web. Last update 01/31/01. The URL is http://www.library.yale.edu/wess/scand/nordref.html