Monolingual thesauri
English 
The
Art and Architecture Thesaurus Browser
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html
This comprehensive English language thesaurus
allows browsing by hierarchies, relations, alphabetically and by facets.
In addition you may type in keywords directly, separated by appearance in
term or in scopenote fields.
American Association
of Retired Persons: Ageline Retired Persons Thesaurus Navigator
http://research.aarp.org/ageline/thesaur.html
Thesaurus of
Aging Terminology
Canadian Thesaurus of
Construction Science and Technology
http://www.nrc.ca/irc/thesaurus/welcome.html
Copyright: Government of Canada 1978
Help available at http://www.nrc.ca/irc/thesaurus/ctcst-search-form.html
" The Canadian Thesaurus of Construction Science
and Technology (TC/CS) was prepared by the IF Research Group, University
of Montreal (director: Prof. Colin H. Davidson; collaborators: Michel
Jullien, Pierre Garneau, and Jean-Jacques Chailloux) for the Government of
Canada, Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce (now called Industry
Canada). The electronic version was designed and installed by Dana J.
Vanier, and Chenhao Chi of the Institute for Research in Construction,
National Research Council Canada."
CERES Thematic Thesaurus
http://ceres.ca.gov/thesaurus/
CERES is the acronym for California Environmental
Resources Evaluation System. This monolingual English thesaurus offers
hierarchical and alphabetical browsing and, having selected a term, the
possibility to search in related subject fields.
The Cook's
Thesaurus
http://www.switcheroo.com/
The Cook's Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that
covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include
pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested
substitutions.
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http://p5uni.ii.pw.edu.pl/envoc/
The thesaurus of the INFOTERRA
database.
ERIC Thesaurus
http://www.ericfacility.net/extra/pub/thessearch.cfm
The
Foundation Center's Grants Classification Thesaurus
http://fdncenter.org/research/grants_class/thesaurus.html
American-English vocabulary of the Foundation
Center for the description of national educational and cultural
institutions in the USA. A very extensive and comprehensive documentation
describes the exact process of indexing at the Foundation Center.
Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
Geographic thesaurus with one million of
placenames in English-speaking countries mainly.
Global Legal Information
Network (GLIN) Thesaurus
http://www.loc.gov/pmei/lexico?op=relogin
The thesaurus in English language (...), which is
now used for the for the multinational Global Legal Information Network database, was created in 1950 and is
continuously being extended. It is unusual (and maybe unique) among the
legal searching instruments, because of its pragmatic working philosophy
(according to the principle: 'A term is only selected when it is needed.')
and its multi-faceted approach to index legal activities
world-wide.
HASSET: Humanities and
Social Science Electronic Thesaurus
http://155.245.254.46/services/zhasset.html
2nd Version (March1998)
This thesaurus in English language is based among others on
the UN Macrothesaurus and was developed at the University of Essex
(GB).
Browsing can be done alphabetically
or using the relations. The selected term can be taken directly for
searching the library catalogue.
IRIS Keyword
Thesaurus
http://carousel.lis.uiuc.edu/~iris/thesaurus.html
IRIS (Illinois
Researchers' Information Service) at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
The IRIS Keyword Thesaurus
contains over 2,100 keywords. These keywords are used in the
"Subjects/Keywords" field of the IRIS database. The keywords are arranged
hierarchically and alphabetically under the forty-five umbrella categories
listed below. To jump to the section of the thesaurus that shows the
keywords for a given category, simply click on the highlighted category in
the list.
LC Thesaurus for Graphic
Material
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/
This English language thesaurus with a comprehensible
introduction was developed by the Library of Congress in the USA
especially for indexing graphic material of all kinds.
Legislative
Indexing Vocabulary (LIV)
http://www.loc.gov/lexico/servlet/lexico/liv/brsearch.html?usr=pub-40:0&op=frames&db=LIV
Legal experts of the Library of Congress
Congressional Research Service (CRS) proof the content of every law and
allot one or more descriptors to each law from a thesaurus especially
developed for use in legislative and politics.
Mannheimer
Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung
http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/bibinfo/thesein.html
NASA
Thesaurus
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/98Thesaurus/vol1.pdf
Electronic edition of the
English printed version of NASA-(U.S. National Aeronautics and Space
Association)Thesaurus. Accessible by alphabetical Browsing, in a second
step you can display the relations.
National
Monuments Record Thesauri 
http://www.rchme.gov.uk/thesaurus/frequentuser.htm
"English
Heritage takes a leading role in setting standards for recording the built
and buried heritage. By setting standards that can be adopted by everyone,
we can make sure that all records are consistent. With this aim in mind,
English Heritage is continually developing new thesauri to provide structure
and guidelines for the standardisation of terms to be used when creating
new records of the past.Now, in our drive to disseminate these standards
and promote their wider use, we are making available seven separate online
thesauri:"
NLM - MeSH Tree Structures
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Medical Subject Headings
(MeSH) can be directly taken for searching the MEDLINE database. You may find more synonyms as entry terms at Medical World Search.
UMI: Controlled Vocabulary
http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/Vocab/
Controlled English vocabulary for a number of subject areas
for searching precisely the Subject Fields of the ProQuest® databases,
e.g. ABI/INFORM.
More English resources:
Library of Congress
Authority Files (u.a. LCSH)
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