Reference Tools

• • Information Please Almanac
    Online version of the Time Almanac that “allows searching along with the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs containing statistics, facts, and historical records.”

• • Guinness Worlds Records 
    Formerly known as the Internet Acronym Server that provide definition of acronyms.

• • The Old Farmer’s Almanac 
    This site contains “astronomical events, weather conditions and forecasts, recipes, and gardening tips.“

• • The CIA World Factbook 
    Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

• • The Yearbook of the United Nations 
    The authoritative reference work on the UN System

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• • Atlapedia Online
    Contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.

• • Columbia Gazetteer of the World 
    The renowned geographic encyclopedia.

• • Maplandia 
    The searchable world gazetteer based on Google maps.

• • Map Quest 
    Provides standard interactive road maps and driving directions. If you click on “Outside U.S. and Canada” you may retrieve roadmaps of the rest of the world.

• • National Geographic Maps 
    Offers a series of a travel maps to suit unique travel needs.

• • World Atlas 
    Complete lists of continents, countries, lakes, oceans, mountains, etc.

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• • Almanac Biography 
    Includes 30,000 short entries from Infoplease.

• • Biographical Dictionary 
    A Wikipedia type system and everyone can edit biographies or even create their own.

• • Biography.com 
    Includes over 7,000 biographies and daily features that highlight connection.

• • Biography Online
    Biographies of the famous, influential, and inspirational.

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• • Art Encyclopedia 
    Includes 9,000 famous painters, sculptors and photographers, at art museum sites & image archives worldwide.

• • Catholic Encyclopedia
    Provides full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine.

• • Encyclopedia.com
    Consists of more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.

• • Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
    Provides a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms. All 16,500+ entries are free online.

• • Holocaust Encyclopedia
    Includes holocaust-related articles published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

• • Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
    A hypertext dictionary for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and users of all types of libraries.

• • On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequence
    Get information about a particular number sequence.

• • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    Each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field.

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• • Quotations from Bartleby.com
    Includes 120,000 most authoritative quotations on the web, with 50,000 other short selections.

• • BrainyQuote
    One of the oldest and most established quotation sites on the web.

• • The Quotations Page
    Consists of 8,000 quotations online from over 3,400 authors, and more are added daily.

• • ThinkExist.com
    Includes more than 300,000 quotations by over 20,000 authors.

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• • Country STAT Philippines
    A web-based system that integrates national food and agricultural statistical information to ensure harmonization of national data and metadata collections for analysis and policy making.

• • PSA Decent Work Statistics
    Contains data from 1995 to the latest available from the source agencies at the time of compilation.

• • OECD.Stat
    Includes 120,000 most authoritative quotations on the web, with 50,000 other short selections.

• • PIDS Economic and Social Database
    Keeps various Philippine economic and social data both at the national and sub-national levels and in long time series for some.

• • United Nations Statistics Division
    Provides a global centre for data on international trade, national accounts, energy, industry, environment and demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources.

• • United Nations Global SDG Indicators Database
    Provides access to data compiled through the UN System in preparation for the Secretary-General’s annual report on “Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

• • The World Bank Open Data
    Offers free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics.

• • World Health Organization Global Health Observatory
    A compilation of health statistics for its 194 member states.

• • World Statistics 
    Gives free and easy access to data provided by International Organizations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations and Eurostat.

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