Online resources that are permitted during the exam
Only the following online resources may be used. Using unauthorized online resources may result in forfeit of your exam registration fee, restrictions on future certification eligibility, and ATA ethics sanctioning.
When using any search engine listed below, you may search for a term to check the spelling and/or usage only. You are not permitted to click on any of the search results.
All printed resources are allowed including printed dictionaries and other books, printed glossaries, and printed copies of ATA practice tests.
All Languages
- American Translators Association
- ATA's Into-English Grading Standards
- Diatopix
- dict.cc
- Dictionary.com
- EUdict
- EUR-Lex
- Google Scholar
- Grammar Slammer
- IATE
- International Monetary Fund
- Linguee
- Merriam-Webster
- Ngram Viewer
- Oxford English Dictionary (full version available by subscription only)
- The American Heritage Dictionary
- The Free Dictionary
- Thesaurus.com
- UNTERM
- Wikipedia
- Wiktionary
- WordReference (no forums)
- World Trade Organization
- Yahoo
Arabic
Croatian
- Hrvatska enciklopedija
- Hrvatski egzonimi
- Hrvatski jezični portal
- Hrvatsko strukovno nazivlje (Struna)
- Institut za hrvatski jezik
(with 12 individual resources)
Danish
Finnish
German
- DWDS
- Langenscheidt
- LEO (no forums)
- OpenThesaurus.de
- Rechtschreibrat
Polish
Romanian
Russian
- Gramota
- Kartaslov
- Lingvo Live (no forums)
- Open Russian
- Multitran (no forums)
- Ushakov
- Yandex
Ukrainian
Questions about resources?
If you would like to use a resource that is not listed, you may submit a request to the Certification Program Manager at certification@atanet.org. Requests must include the Name and URL of resource. Once the exam year begins, requests will only be considered for the next exam year.