Databases

Google and the USPTO are making patents and trademarks available at no charge:

Patents
Trademarks

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OnlineUniversities.com offered a useful list of Search Engines.   The site says that:
‘ Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only [...]

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I learned about the ‘The Google Public Data Explorer‘ from ResearchBuzz.org.   Very interesting!  Might be of use in the classroom or for doing a research project or paper.
In Google’s own words, the resource subtitled,’Data visualizations for a changing world’:
‘makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate [...]

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ResearchBuzz.org introduced me to a ‘Huge Online Database of Blueprints‘.

I found it interesting and am going to send it to my high school’s CTE (career & technical education) teachers.  The drafting teacher in particular may be interested in it.   Budding artists may also be interested.  There are blueprints of:

cars
motorcycles
trucks
ships
buses
WWI airplanes
WWII airplanes
modern airplanes
tanks
weapons
science fiction
humans
phones
misc.

http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/

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