• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.)

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.

• 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.

• 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.