 Dictionaries and encyclopedias are right at your fingertips through the following links: Encyclopædia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica Online offers over 73,000 encyclopaedia articles, both short and book-length. Other content includes a world atlas, thousands of images and videos, an online dictionary and thesaurus, over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals, today's news headlines from the NZ Herald and BBC News, and links to relevant websites. World Book Online
World Book Online is the electronic version of the very popular reference books, suggested for children intermediate and up. It contains articles from the World Book Encyclopaedia, the World Book Dictionary, and an extensive media database of journal articles, photos, maps, pictures, videos, animations, and audio clips. Special features include Behind the Headlines, which examines current topics in the news, and an interactive atlas. Oxford English Dictionary Online
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries, OED Online offers unparalleled access to the 'greatest continuing work of scholarship that this century has produced' (Newsweek). Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online provides access to works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource - over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press; plus the broad range of titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, to enhance this coverage. Te Ara: the Encyclopedia of New Zealand
In Māori, Te Ara means 'the pathway'. Through interlinking text and image trails, the Encyclopedia takes you on a journey of discovery. Beginning with the theme of Peoples, it will eventually present a comprehensive guide to New Zealand - its natural environment, history, culture, economics and government.
Te Ara's first theme introduces New Zealanders to one another and to the world. Explore the origins of New Zealanders - the voyages, the stories of settlement, and their rich and diverse heritages. Ngata Dictionary
The H. M. Ngata English-Maori Dictionary is the first dictionary to offer an extensive selection of English to Maori headwords, illustrating their use in sentences and phrases drawn from a wide range of contemporary and traditional contexts. An important aim of the dictionary is to assist learners of the Maori language, and particularly to encourage students in the classroom, but it will be equally valuable for those already familiar with the Maori language. It is a concise English-Maori dictionary, which is explicitly, but not exclusively, based on Ngati Porou and East Coast dialect and idiom. The English-Maori Dictionary complements the use of other dictionaries of Maori and English, and glossaries produced by other agencies such as Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori (the Maori Language Commission). Bartleby.com
This site promotes itself as the "preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge".
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