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Almanacs
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
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
- New World Encyclopedia (NWE) – designed to provide the context and values of our social and organizational relationships, and our relationship with nature and the environment.
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.
- Librarian’s Index to the Internet
– A subject directory of more than 8,200 Internet sources selected and evaluated
by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.
- 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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