ONLINE THESAURI and AUTHORITY FILES

Astronomy Thesaurus

This thesaurus, compiled by Robyn M. Shobbrook & Robert R. Shobbrook provides access to the thesaurus in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

CAB Thesaurus

The CAB Thesaurus is the largest life sciences and related topics thesaurus in the world, designed for use with CAB Abstracts and Global Health databases and related products. This multi-lingual thesaurus provides broad coverage of pure and applied life sciences, technology and social sciences.

(U.S. Army) Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) Thesaurus

The CALL Thesaurus supports the various military training programs of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center (CAC) in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The thesaurus contains both topical terms and specific names of military groups and equipment. It includes an online form to make a term suggestion.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Thesaurus

ERIC is a national education database of bibliographic citations and digests, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. This online version of the ERIC Thesaurus provides immediate search access to portions of the ERIC database. The Thesaurus content is the result of 30 years of work and refinement by the ERIC system, a decentralized network of clearinghouses and support components. The 40-member ERIC Vocabulary Review Group (VRG) presently oversees the Thesaurus development effort.

Ethnographic Thesaurus

The Ethnographic Thesaurus is a hierarchical taxonomy of 25 top categories, used to improve access to information about folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and related fields. It is developed by the American Folklore Society in cooperation with the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress and supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It includes an online form to make a term suggestion.

European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies

This is a multi-lingual thesaurus containing around 8000 hierarchically arranged terms, covering all the main aspects of international relations and area studies. Currently the thesaurus is available in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Croatian and Russian. The interface is available in English or German. The Thesaurus was developed with the participation of numerous European research institutes as a project of the European Information Network on International Relations and Areas Studies (EINIRAS).

European Training Thesaurus

A thesaurus published by the European Union's European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for vocational education and training (VET) in Europe.

The Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus

The AAT is a controlled vocabulary for describing and retrieving information on fine art, architecture, decorative art, and material culture.

The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

The TGN contains approximately 900,000 records for places, arranged in hierarchies representing all nations of the modern world, and including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, place types, and other relevant information.

The Getty Union List of Artist Names

The ULAN is a database of biographical and bibliographical information on artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.

International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology (ITRT)

From the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Library (UNHCR) and Forced Migration Online (FMO). It is as an interactive and searchable tool online for the location of relevant indexing terminology in English, French or Spanish.

Library of Congress Authorities

Library of Congress Subject Headings and Name Authorities (people, organizations, places, etc.)

Library of Congress Legislative Indexing Vocabulary (LIV) (browse only)

A thesaurus developed by the Congressional Research Service for use with legislative and public policy material.

LC Thesaurus for Graphic Material

If you are looking for a thesaurus of terms related to graphic materials, this is one you'll want to explore.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

This thesaurus is brought to you by the National Library of Medicine. MeSH is the most used thesaurus in publications for medical and health professionals.

NASA Thesaurus (browsable PDF file)

Although this is the NASA Thesaurus, it includes much more than just aerospace terms (for example, it includes "Abdomen" with broader terms and related terms).

Public Health Language

This thesaurus is provided by the North East Public Health Observatory of the Wolfson Research Institute of the University of Durham, United Kingdom, with support from UK National Library for Public Health, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and the Department of Health. The hierarchical/alphabetical browsable thesaurus is a web application of MultiTes WDK (Web Deployment Kit).

UNBIS Thesaurus

This online database represents the fourth edition of the UNBIS Thesaurus and the first in all the official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. The multilingual UNBIS Thesaurus, created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, United Nations Department of Public Information, contains the terminology used in subject analysis of documents and other materials relevant to United Nations programmes and activities. It is used as the subject authority of the United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBIS) and has been incorporated as the subject lexicon of the United Nations Official Document System. It is multidisciplinary in scope, reflecting the Organization's wide-ranging concerns.

UNESCO Thesaurus

The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation which includes subject terms for the following areas of knowledge: education; science; culture; social and human sciences; information and communication; and politics, law and economics. It also includes the names of countries and groupings of countries (political, economic, geographic, ethnic and religious, and linguistic groupings).

USDA National Agricultural Library Agriculture Thesaurus

The Thesaurus is an online vocabulary tool of agricultural terms in English and Spanish and is cooperatively produced by the National Aricultural Library, USDA, and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture.

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