Publisher | Database | Description |
|---|---|---|
| American Chemical Society | ACS All Access | Comprehensive access to the American Chemical Society's journals and ebooks. |
| ASTM International | ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library | Covers a broad range of engineering disciplines including: aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science and solar engineering. |
| BioOne | BioOne Complete | Collection of journals and ebooks in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. |
| Bloomberg BNA | Bloomberg Law IP | Database on intellectual propriety covering trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and patents. |
| Building Green | BuildingGreen suite | Source on healthy and sustainable design and construction strategies. |
| Chemical Abstracts Service | SciFinder | Database for chemical literature, searchable by topic, author, substances by name or CAS registry Number. |
| STN | Access databases from publishers in chemistry, biomedical, pharmaceutical, intellectual property and engineering disciplines. Includes global full-text patent databases, biomedical and pharmaceutical collections, and engineering and materials databases. Supports complex structure searching. | |
| CRC Press | BIOSCIENCEnetBASE | Provides access to handbooks and monographs in the lifes sciences including microbiology, genetics, biomedical engineering, and healthcare. |
| CHEMISTRYnetBASE | Provides access to handbooks and dictionaries in chemistry. | |
| CHEMLIBnetBASE | Provides access to ebooks in chemistry, including detailed theory, experimental methods, and research. | |
| COMPUTERSCIENCEnetBASE | Provides access to handbooks and monographs on MATLAB, C++, and Java. | |
| ENGnetBASE | Provides access to engineering ebooks, including general engineering, mechanical, civil, electrical, industrial, and mining engineering. | |
| FOODnetBASE | Provides access to handbooks and monographs in the food industry, including food safety, regulations, quality assurance, packinging, biotechnology, and product development. | |
| ITECHnetBASE | Provides access to ebooks containing resources for the study, design, development, implementation, support, and management of computer-based information systems. | |
| MATHnetBASE | Provides access to mathematics ebooks including handbooks, textbooks, and manuals. | |
| POLYMERSnetBASE | Provides access to ebooks related to polymers. | |
| CRCnetBASE | CHEMnetBASE | Electronic collection of major reference works for chemistry and related science. |
| EBSCO | Academic Search Complete | Collection of full-text journals, providing users access to information from peer-reviewed STEM research as well as social sciences and humanities. |
| Applied Science & Technology Source | Collection of full-text journals covering a wide variety of STEM disciplines, including artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, plastics, hydroponics, chemical engineering and robotics. | |
| Business Source Complete | Database covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more. | |
| Computer Source | Covers information on computers, telecommunications, electronics, and the internet. | |
| Computers & Applied Sciences Complete | A full-text database covering computing, technology and engineering disciplines. | |
| EconLit with Full Text | A full-text database for economic research. | |
| Energy & Power Source | A full-text database of energy and power industry-erlated content. | |
| Engineering Source | Database for professionals and researchers across all engineering disciplines, including biomedical, civil, electrical, mechanical, environmental, and software. | |
| Environment Complete | A full-text database for environmental studies covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, public policy, sustainability and other related subjects. | |
| Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA) | Information science database that provides indexing and abstracts for articles, books, research reports and conference proceedings. | |
| IT Source | Includes information technology articles from a wide range of industries, providing insights into best practices across the discipline. | |
| Science & Technology Collection | A full-text science database providing access to scholarly journals covering an array of science subjects, including chemistry, biology, computer technology and physics. | |
| Science Reference Center | Contains full-text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images. | |
| eFunda | eFunda | Reference for engineering fundamentals. |
| Elsevier | Knovel | Online resource combining books, technical information, interactive equations and analytical tools. |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica | Encyclopaedia Britannica | General knowledge online encyclopedia including objective articles, biographies, videos, and images. |
| Faulkner Information Services | FACCTS | Library containing more than 1,200 reports including technology tutorials, marketplace insights, product face-offs, product and service profiles, standards reports, comparison and selection guides, and more. |
| Faulkner Security Management Practices | Reports covering topics such as deploying network security appliances, using biometric technologies and physical security, managing organizational risk, planning for disruptions, securing the enterprise network and so much more. | |
| GeneCards | GeneCards | A searchable, integrated, database of human genes that provides concise genomic related information, on all known and predicted human genes. |
| IEEE | IEEE Xplore Digital Library | Provides access to journals, conferences, standards, and ebooks in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. |
| International Society for Horticulture Science | Acta Horticulturae | Covers Proceedings of ISHS Symposia and the International Horticultural Congress. |
| IP.com | InnovationQ Plus | Fully discoverable content from Prior Art Database (PAD), IEEE and non-patent literature collections, and US and international patent collections. |
| John Wiley & Sons | Cochrane library | A collection of databases on healthcare and controlled trials. |
| Law360 | Law360 | News and analysis on legal developments including litigation filings, case settlements, verdicts, regulation, enforcement, legislation, and corporate deals. |
| LexisNexis | LexisNexis | Database providing legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics. |
| McGraw Hill | AccessScience | Database that contains educational material covering all major scientific disciplines. |
| OnePetro | OnePetro | Technical literature on oil and gas exploration and production. |
| O'Reilly | O'Reilly Media | Learning platform providing electronic books, streaming videos, web-based live training courses, interactive learning, and certifications related to scientific, technical, and business management content. |
| Oxford University Press | Oxford English Dictionary | Online dictionary providing a record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations and over 1,000 years of English. |
| ProQuest | ProQuest Central | Provides access to databases across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports. |
| ProQuest Dialog | Allows researchers to search, access, and organize peer-reviewed content databases from reliable sources. | |
| Questel | Foreign Patent Search | Database of industrial designs, US patent images & full-text patent applications, and foreign patent images indexed with Locarno classification numbers. |
| Reed Tech | Navigator for Drug Labels (PDR) | U.S. human drug label database with advanced search, comparison, analysis and alerts tools. |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | Merck Index Online | Database of chemical substances. |
| SPIE | SPIE Digital Library | Provides access to journals, conference proceedings, and ebooks in optics and photonics. |
| Therapeutic Research Center | Natural Medicines | Database on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies. |
| Thieme Medical Publishers | Pharmaceutical substances | Provides access to syntheses, patents, and applications for more than 2,600 active pharmaceutical ingredients. |
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Patent examiners are not required to search every listed resource in the examination of an application. The examiner will determine the most appropriate resources for that application by relying upon their professional judgment and assessment of disclosed and claimed subject matter in the application under consideration. Searching is highly dependent upon the experience and job knowledge of the individual performing and/or reviewing the search.