The Free Dictionary
– Free online dictionary search, offering English, medical, legal, and computer
dictionaries as well as a thesaurus, encyclopedia, and literature reference library.
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.
Gazeeter
Maplandia.com – enables
to explore countries through detailed satellite imagery — fast and easy as never
before.
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)
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of historical documents.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.
Other References
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
– 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.