Dictionaries
- Acronym Finder
- Lookup acronyms, abbreviations, or initialisms
- Aphorisms Galore
- All those wise sayings you wish you could remember
- Cliche Finder
- Find them before they find you
- Dictionary.com
- Also a Thesaurus and an Encyclopedia
- Quotations Page
- Who wrote that?
- Quotationz
- What the wise said about a given subject
- Skeptics Dictionary
- Good antidote to hype, pseudoscience and superstition
- What is?
- Compter and Internet jargon buster
Encyclopedias
- Answers
- Combined dictionary and encyclopedia and more
- Bartleby Reference
- Compendium of Reference Sites
- Britannica
- Considered the world's best, including some free material
- eHow
- Clear instructions on how to do (just about) everything
- Columbia
- Mostly free material
- Encarta
- From Microsoft
- HighBeam Encyclopedia
- Also from the Columbia Encyclopedia
- How Stuff Works
- Learn How Everything Works
- InfoPlease
- Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus.
- Made How
- How Products are Made
- The Why Files
- The science behind the news
- Tricks of the Trade
- Professional secrets from those in the know.
- Wikipedia
- The Free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit
- World Atlas
- Maps, Flags and Geography Facts and Figures
Databases
- Access NZ
- Includes Regional Breakdown
- Bubl
- Selected academic subject areas
- Complete Planet
- Directory of searchable databases
- Corbis
- Large collection of Photos and Images
- FAQ Archives
- Usenet Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Find Articles
- Searches Hundreds of Magazines and Journals
- Internet Archive
- Includes the WayBack Machine
- Internet Public Library
- From the University of Michigan
- LawHawk
- Links to free and commercial NZ legal information
- Librarians Internet Search
- Index of quality web sites
- New Zealand Maritime Index
- Vessels, organisations, subjects, and people indexed by the Maritime Museum
- NZ Search
- Directory of NZ Web Sites
- Open Directory
- The largest human-edited directory of the Web
- Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection
- Up-to-date Maps
- Questia
- Has the full contents of half a million books and journals
- Search Engine Colossus
- International Directory of Search Engines
- WWW Virtual Library
- Directory of quality web sites
- Yahoo Reference
- Comprehensive
Directories
- Babelfish Translator
- Translates text, including webpages in seconds
- Google Directory
- The web organized by topic into categories.
- International White and Yellow Pages
- International directory of names, addresses, phone and fax numbers
- NZ Address and Postcode Finder
- And postal rates and more
- NZ White Pages
- Faster than thumbing through.
- NZ Yellow Pages
Let your mouse do the walking
- Yahoo!
- As much a directory as a search engine
