• AccountingWEB
  Extensive online resource based in United Kingdom. Received an award as the New Media Business Website of the Year.
• Accounting Research Network
  Includes thousands of full-text working papers and abstracts of already accepted papers as part of the Social Science Research Network's eLibrary. User must register first before accessing the publications.
• Accounting Resources on the Internet (Rutgers University)
  Links to the big four accounting firms, journals and publications, state CPA associations, newly released books and more.
• Accounting Tutorial: Ten Steps to Accounting Research
  Outlines basic steps for tackling topics in the highly technical field of accounting. Provides quick access to an online guide to accounting resources and two interesting case studies about the "Enron debacle" and the impacts of FASB Statement No.142 - "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets".
• Rutgers Accounting Web
  A portal to current accounting research and links. The Accounting Research Directory (free but must register) list links, evaluates and categorizes major articles published between 1963 to present in nine leading accounting journals.
• SmartPros Accounting
  One of the most comprehensive sources available for accounting information. Use the drop down menu to select an area of interest.

• Acronym Finder
  The Acronym Finder is the web's largest database of its kind. Here you'll find definitions for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms about all subjects, including information technology, telecommunications, military, government, and much more.

• The World Almanac
  This is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.

• The Earth Calendar
  The Earth Calendar is a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world.

• American Psychological Association
  APA Citation style uses parenthetical reference citations within the text of the paper and a list of references at the end of the paper.
• MLA & Others
  This online resources provides other different styles on how to cite document resources such as MLA, Chicago and CBE styles.

• Calculator
  This calculator converts feet, inches and fractions to metres vice versa.

• International Country Calling Codes
  Find the international dialing code or time zone for any country. it will instantly show all telephone prefixes needed to call from one area.

• Oanda
  This is the advanced and comprehensive provider of foreign exchange, currency trading, and information services to FXInvestors, businesses and travelers.
• Universal Currency Converter
  This is the world's most popular currency tool. You can perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates. Enter the amount of money you wish to exchange and select the currency types you wish to convert from the option menus.

• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
  This site provides the following Cambridge dictionaries: Cambridge International Dictionary of English - Cambridge Dictionary of American English - Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms - Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
• The Free Dictionary by Farlex
  TheFreeDictionary.com's expanded version contains 250,000 entries, 30,000 illustrative images, an audio pronunciation feature, etymologies, abbreviations, biographical entries, and more.
• Webopedia
  This is an online computer dictionary and internet search engine for internet terms and technical support.

• Initute: Economics
  Free access to high quality links evaluated and classified by subject experts from a consortium of United Kingdom universities.

• Free Wikipedia Encyclopedia
  This a free online encyclopedia that is written collaboratively by people from around the world. It contains over 1.8 million articles in over 100 languages.

• EEVL: The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing
  EEVL provides access to a collection of over 10,000 descriptions and links to quality Internet websites on engineering, mathematics and computing resources. They have also developed EEVL's E-journal Search Engines (EESE), which searches the content of over 250 freely available full text e-journals in Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. Besides accessing specialised information services, users can also access to a database of teaching and learning. EEVL also aggregates jobs and industry news from a wide range of top sources.
• International Telecommunication Union
  Free downloads of standards. A strong collections on current standards on Next Generation Network (NGN), IPTV (webTV), ICT in vehicles, cybersecurity, quality of service, multimedia, emergency communications and standards for access such as VDSL 2 and DSI broadband.

• Vital Signs
  This Worldwatch annual provides comprehensive, user-friendly information on key trends and includes tables and graphs that help readers assess the developments that are changing their lives for better or for worse.
• World Bank Country Data & Statistic
  The data profiles available here are drawn from the World Development Indicators database, as at, July 2000. The profiles cover the 206 countries (181 World Bank members and 25 other economies with populations of more than 30,000) and 17 country groups reported on in the World Development Indicators book, CD-ROM and the World Bank Atlas.
• The World Factbook
  CIA's World Factbook provides broad, general information on most countries of the world.

• Be Successful
  This site provides a balance of variety of resources on how to be a success in your online business. The development of a successful business usually involves some degree of personal development or growth.
• Classic Bookshelf
  Enjoy free classics reading online from this site.
• Ebooklobby.com
  These free e-books are divided into different categories ranging from business, art, computing and education. No registration is required to download the e-books.Ebooklobby.com
• Ebooks4free.net
  This site provides hundreds of links to download free e-books and e-books sites archive. Categories range from literature, history, religion, philosophy, occult, sciences, politics, fairtytales, manuals and musics.
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• Free eBooks.net
  Online source for free e-book downloads, e-book resources and e-book authors. User will be requested to register first to access. Collections range from advertising, business, career, economy, science, marketing and etc.
• Free eBooks for your PDA (or iPod)
  This site provides a free service to the Internet community at large. User can browse through the most popular titles, recommendations or recent reviews from the site’s visitors.
• Google Book Search
  This site provides user to search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them. The book content in Google Book Search come primarily from two sources: publishers and libraries.
• Great Books and Classics
  Gateway to literature collections. No registration is required.
• Online Books Page
  This site provides listing over 30,000 free books on the Web. It is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. No registration is required.
• Oxford Text Archive
  The Oxford Test Archive (OTA) set up by Oxford University Computing Services, is a repository of digital literary and linguistic resources for research and teaching. It also offer advice to resource creators about best practice for creating digital resources, and to users of digital resources on how to benefit from existing resources.
• Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog
  This site, Project Gutenberg (PG) was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library of 18,000 free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. The texts provided are mostly in the public domain, either because they were never under copyright, or because their copyrights have expired.
• Secret Guide to Computers
  If you have ever wanted to know anything about computers or how they work, you can probably find it here. It provides online information on hardware, software, Internet, programming and how to fix your computer.
• University of Virginia Library's Etext Center
  The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)
• World Wide School
  This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of educational material. It covers collection from literature, youth, history, geography, social sciences, reference, non-English, applied sciences and technology, pure science, philosophy and religion.

Mainly refers to the vast repository of information that search engines and directories don't have direct access to, like databases. To search for such information, search a subject term and the word “databases” using any available search engines.

• Deep Web Search
• Infomine
• Invisible Library
• Resource Discovery Network

This series is a topical, start-up guide to distance education practice and delivery. It is aimed at education professionals relatively new to distance education, with content just detailed enough for introductory use by and for trainers - whether educational, vocational or corporate.

• Learning for Development

• Atlapedia Online
  This site contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.

• Directory of Open Access Journals
  This service covers free, full text quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

• Pliagiarism
  The online resource for people concerned with the growing problem of Internet plagiarism. This site is designed to provide the latest information on online plagiarism and explain how Turnitin and iThenticate now being used by educators and content creators all over the world to fight plagiarism and restore integrity to written work.

• SIRIM
  SIRIM Berhad is a wholly-owned company of the Malaysian Government. Promoting and facilitating consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity. Standards can be purchased via this site.
• American National Standard Institute
  ANSI is a private, non-profit organization that administers and coordinates the US voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. Contains information on accreditation and guidelines for implementation. Standards can be purchased via this site.
• FreePatentsOnline
  Provides fast, easy-to-use search engine to millions of US patents. Provides free PDF downloads.

• Programmers Heaven
  This site features more than 30,000 file links and articles to explore. This site covers subjects such as programming languages, development tools, utilities, source code and multimedia.
• Search VB.com
  This site is a resource for developers of Windows applications.

• Scitopia
  Scitopia.org is a free federated search portal to the digital libraries of 21 leading science and technology societies. Search over more than three and a half million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 350 years of science and technology. Participating groups include the Acoustical Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

• Google Directory
• Yahoo! Directory
• Librarians’ Internet Index

• Thesaurus.com
  This site uses Roget’s Interactive Thesaurus to provide synonyms for words and phrases.

• Local Times Around the World
  Find the current local time of countries around the world, each entry includes details of daylight saving. Select a continent and choose from the list of countries and regions.
• The World Clock – Time Zones
  Website the provides free information on world time zone clock.