Other Resources

Almanacs _______________________________________________

• Information Please – online almanac

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 – 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 includes an 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Patents _________________________________________________

• WIPO PATENTSCOPE – Search 14,029,413 patent documents including 2,132,227 published international patent applications (PCT).

• IPOPhil Patent Search - 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.

• 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

Other References ___________________________________

• Google Scholar - index of all the scholar articles online

• Online newspapers in the Philippines – Philippines newspapers for information on local issues, politics, events, celebrations, people and business.

• Internet Archive - It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. 

• 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.