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Almanacs
Information Please
– online almanac
Old Farmer’s Almanac
– fun & practical information for everyday life including moon calendars, Weather predictions and more.
Atlas
Infoplease Atlas
– Click on an area of the map that you would like to see. There are also links to country profiles, flags, statistics, and more.
World Atlas
– World Atlas is an educational resource for world maps, atlases, and in-depth geography information.
Dictionary
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
– This site offers quick but comprehensive dictionary searches.
Information Please
– offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online, also include almanac and encyclopedia.
Miriam Webster Dictionary
– online English dictionary and thesaurus.
The Free Dictionary
– Free online dictionary search, offering English, medical, legal, and computer dictionaries as well as a thesaurus, encyclopedia, and literature reference library.
Webopedia
– Dictionary on computing.
Computer User
– Dictionary on computing.
Engineering Dictionary
– Free encyclopedia by Babylon.
Techencyclopedia
– definitions of computer & technology terms and concepts.
Chemistry & Environmental Dictionary
– provide definitions for technical terms & acronyms.
Engineering Dictionary
– provide definitions for technical terms & acronyms.
Alphadictionary
– offers a wide variety of language materials intended to help its visitors learn and master anything they need to know about their native language or other languages.
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com
– provides more than 17,000 short articles from the concise Columbia Electronic encyclopedia.
Internet Encyclopedia
– encyclopedia composed of information available on the Internet.
Encyclobeamia
– Encyclopedia in Engineering.
Encyclodedia Smithsonian
– The topics to search are listed alphabetically. Click on the topic to find information.
Reference.com
– Free online encyclopedia and reference. Quickly research famous people, places, topics, and events from trusted sources.
DiracDelta
– Small consultancy formed from a group of people with very different skills in engineering, physics and software engineering
Gazeeter
Maplandia.com
– enables to explore countries through detailed satellite imagery — fast and easy as never before.
GeoNames
– Integrating geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and others from various sources.
Patents
WIPO PATENTSCOPE
– Search 14,029,413 patent documents including 2,132,227 published international patent applications (PCT).
IPOPhil PhilPAT
- Search Titles, Application/Patent Numbers, Abstracts and Representative Drawings, if any, of IP Philippines granted and published pending patent documents.
USPTO
- Patents from 1790 through 1975 are searchable only by Issue Date, Patent Number, and Current US Classification.
Espacenet
- Offers free access to more than 70 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today.
KIPRIS
- Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Services
DEPATISnet
- German patent information system (DEPATIS) provided by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA)
FPO
- Free Patents Online
Google Patent
–Search more than seven million U.S. patents.
PATENT LENS
- Free Full-text Worldwide Patent Searching
South African Patent Search
- delivering free search of the Patent Database to the public.
PATEXIA RESEARCH
- Search for patents and analyze intellectual property trends with Patexia's research and visualization tools.
Quotations
Quoteland.com
– Contains a large collections of quotations divided by topic and author as well as the text of historical documents.
Brainyquote
– Offers a database of quotations by famous authors and celebrities.
GoodReads
– Help people find and share books they love
Other References
Mathway
- shows the step-by-step process on how to solve a Math problem may it be: Basic Math, Algebra, Calculus, Geometry, Trigonometry, etc.
Google Scholar
- index of all the scholar articles online
Nolo
– one of the most self help legal guides. Provides legal documents for every aspect of your life; law references, government regulations and court cases. Nolo’s mission is to make the legal system work for everyone, not just lawyers.
Librarian’s Index to the Internet
– Closed permanently. Can use the website but it will no longer be updated.
TILT - Internet tutorial
– TILT stands for “Texas Information Literacy Tutorial”. A useful Internet tutorial from the University of Texas, for faculty and students and others interested in evaluating the quality of information found on the web.
O Net Online
– This site offers several approaches to identifying a suitable occupation.
Online newspapers in the Philippines
– Philippines newspapers for information on local issues, politics, events, celebrations, people and business.
Internet Public Library
– it is hosted by the School of Information at the University of Michigan. It’s a grand experiment in using the Internet to provide reference service. You’ll find organized reference works here, you can even ask for reference help.
Project Gutenberg
– The Goal of Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote and search.
How Stuff Works
– this is a terrific informative site with very many things in life explained. For Speech class students, it can be a gold mine of informative speeches. A truly rich lode of information.
Kluwer Online
– The Kluwer online gateway reaches millions of researchers, scientists and professionals in more than 50 countries with journals and eReference works.
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