{"id":3579,"date":"2020-04-08T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2021-11-24T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:28:04","slug":"free-or-low-cost-science-and-technology-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/2020\/04\/08\/free-or-low-cost-science-and-technology-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Free or Low-Cost Science and Technology Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Free Continuing Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ATA members can now watch the entire <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atanet.org\/conf\/watch_conf_2017.php\" target=\"_blank\">2017 ATA Conference, ATA58, for free<\/a><\/strong>. You need to be an active ATA member and be logged into the ATA website.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLTRMtN7cm-q3NDuYGL1vLuzdjXq5mBmwK\">Free presentation series on neural networks and translation<\/a><\/strong> by Prof. Andy Way<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/\">edX has a good selection of technical MOOCs<\/a><\/strong> (massive open online courses) in multiple languages<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/miriadax.net\/home\">MOOCs in Spanish at Mir\u00edadaX<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/learn\/sciwrite?action=enroll\">Course on writing in the Sciences<\/a><\/strong> on Coursera &#8211; free, if you don&#8217;t want a certificate<\/li><li>Webinars by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acs.org\/content\/acs\/en\/acs-webinars.html\">American Chemical Society<\/a><\/strong> (ACS)<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acs.org\/content\/acs\/en\/acs-webinars\/spanish.html\">Webinars in Spanish<\/a><\/strong> by the American Chemical Society (ACS) (not translated)<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/academy\/en\/courses\/distance_learning\/\">World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Academy, Distance Learning<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; in multiple languages; the basic courses are free<\/li><li>Online Training by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epo.org\/learning-events\/e-learning.html\">European Patent Office<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>Learn to code with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codecademy.com\/\">Code Academy<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>The Internet Archive launched a &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/nationalemergencylibrary\">national emergency library<\/a><\/strong>&#8221;  with free digital books that support emergency remote teaching,  research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual  stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries  are closed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Free Miscellaneous Linguistic Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>DIN is offering relevant <strong>DIN standards for PPE and medical equipment<\/strong> for FREE in English and German. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.din.de\/de\/din-und-seine-partner\/presse\/mitteilungen\/covid-19-din-stellt-normen-fuer-medizinische-ausruestung-zur-verfuegung-708596\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here in German<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beuth.de\/en\/special-editions-standards-for-medical-equipments\" target=\"_blank\">here English.<\/a><\/li><li><strong>ASTM is offering relevant standards<\/strong> for PPE and medical equipment for FREE as well. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.astm.org\/COVID-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">More information here.<\/a><\/li><li>TAUS created a <strong>Coronavirus corpus in various language pairs to train MT engines<\/strong>, the corpora can be <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/md.taus.net\/corona\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded here for free.<\/a> Currently available in the language pairs English-French, English-German, English-Italian, and English-Spanish.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you know of any other (preferably free) resources relating to science and technology, continuing education, and language, <a href=\"mailto:divisionS_TD@atanet.org\">please let us know<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collection of free continuing education and linguistic resources for science and technology language professionals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[270,269],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-continuing-education","tag-science-and-technology-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ata-divisions.org\/S_TD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}