Virtual Reference Collection
http://www.lib.uci.edu/home/virtual/virtual.html
Superior to most pages of its kind due to its navigation features, the page is maintained by the University of California at Irvine. As noted by Bryan Pfaffenberger, in the World Wide Web Bible (2nd ed.),
In addition to clicking headings in the table of contents to follow internal hyperlinks,
you can also easily return to other levels in the site by clicking links on the page, so
you can jump from location to location at the Virtual Reference Collection without
having to use your history list.
LookUP!
The site enables the user to perform simple or advanced searches for people's e-mail addresses, based on information entered.
Hypertext Webster Interface
http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster
The Carnegie-Mellon University site enables the user to enter a word and obtain its definition in Webster's Dictionary. Each entry includes links to most words in the definition; by clicking on a particular word, you can go to its entry.
Echo-Eurodicautom
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~felix/eurodictautom.html
Based at the University of Frankfurt (Germany), the site enables the user to enter a word in any major European language and obtain a translation into any other supported language. At present, it specializes only in the translation of technical words as opposed to everyday words.
The Alternative Dictionaries
http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang
The user-contributed site offers a continuously-updated dictionary of "slang, swear words and other 'bad' language." A particular strength is its broad-based multicultural representation. Weaknesses include sketchy coverage and the absence of search capabilities (i.e., one simply browses through alphabetical lists).
Britannica Online
Available by subscription, the source is--unlike the print and CD-ROM versions--continuously updated. Supplemented by a number of free tools; e.g., Britannica's Lives.
Random House Kids Encyclopedia
http://ww.advanture.com/WWW/reference_files/rhke/index.html
Geared more to browsing than research, the entries all contain several hyperlinks to information in other sections.
CIA World Factbook
A compendium of information about countries worldwide, including maps and statistics. Keyword searches employing the Harvest search engines are possible via: http://www.odci.gov/Harvest/brokers/odciweb/query:html
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett
Entering a topic brings quotations related to the topic. One can also scroll through the list of famous writers and speakers to find links to all their available online quotations. Does not include contemporary quotes.
The Quote Archive
http://apsc7.rescomp.arizona.edu/~ollisg/quote
Based at the University of Arizona, the site makes available extensive search capabilities, a random quote service, and the ability for users to contribute new quotes to the database.
WordNet
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/w3wn.html
Designed in accordance with current theories in how people remember words, the user can type in a root word--choose whether you want synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, meronyms, holonyms, etc.--and receive a report listing the various senses of the word.
AT&T 800 DIRECTORY
http://www.tollfree.att.net/dir800/
Enter name of business or search by type of company.
Central Source Yellow Pages
Although not complete, the source includes more than ten million businesses in the U.S.
AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder
http://www.xmission.com/~americam/aclookup.html
Enter the city, state, and country, and user receives correct dialing information to reach that area from the U.S. Special two-character codes must be used to specify a country; the codes are listed at http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/wwwstat/country-codes.text
U.S. Postal Service ZIP+4 Lookup
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html
Enter as much of an address as is known, and the service attempts to find the correct ZIP code.