The Scientific and Technical Information (STIC) provides examiners access to Non-Patent Literature (NPL) through multiple electronic tools purchased from various publishers. These tools are available to examiners, organized by technology center (TC), on the NPL web page which is located on the Patent Examiner's Toolkit. NPL encompasses all the TC subject areas and includes electronic books, periodicals, conferences, standards, dissertations, and much more. STIC currently subscribes to 102,000+ electronic journals and over 487,000+ electronic books in full text. The following charts provide a sampling of e-journal and e-book resources available to examiners.
As of October 1, 2024
Major Publishers of Electronic Non-Patent Literature Available at USPTO - Electronic Books
| Publisher | eBook Count |
|---|---|
| ACM | 10,158 |
| AIAA | 1,375 |
| AIP | 3,041 |
| American Chemical Society | 1,780 |
| ASM International | 48 |
| ASME | 1,452 |
| ASTM International | 1,814 |
| BioOne | 48 |
| ChemNetBase | 9 |
| CREDOreference | 1,184 |
| EBSCO | 8,535 |
| Elsevier | 10,517 |
| Hein | 119,087 |
| Highwire Press | 43 |
| IEEE | 49,657 |
| IET | 429 |
| JSTOR | 13,289 |
| Knovel | 11,884 |
| Mit Press | 180 |
| NCBI | 4,431 |
| O'Reilly | 55,298 |
| Ovid | 2 |
| Oxford University Press | 884 |
| ProQuest | 4,269 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | 923 |
| SPIE | 13,406 |
| Springer | 197,281 |
| Taylor & Francis | 22,535 |
| Thieme | 319 |
| Westlaw | 1 |
| Wiley | 5,993 |
| Other | 1,178 |
Major Publishers of Electronic Non-Patent Literature Available at USPTO - Electronic Journals
| Publisher | eJournal Count |
|---|---|
| ACM | 171 |
| AIAA Aerospace Research Central | 24 |
| AIP | 39 |
| Allen Press | 4 |
| American Association for Cancer Research | 10 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | 5 |
| American Association of Immunologists | 5 |
| American Association of Neurological Surgeons | 5 |
| American Chemical Society | 101 |
| American Mathematical Society | 6 |
| American Medical Association | 14 |
| American Nuclear Society | 4 |
| American Physical Society | 36 |
| American Physiological Society | 14 |
| American Phytopathological Society Current | 3 |
| American Roentgen Ray Society | 1 |
| American Society For Biochemistry And Molecular Biology | 2 |
| American Society for Cell Biology | 2 |
| American Society For Clinical Investigation | 1 |
| American Society for Horticulture Science | 2 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 23 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology | 5 |
| American Society of Clinical Pathology | 1 |
| American Society of Hematology | 3 |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2 |
| American Veterinary Medical Association | 2 |
| Annual Reviews | 53 |
| ARVO | 2 |
| ASME | 30 |
| ASTM International | 20 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 1 |
| Bangladesh Journals Online | 1 |
| Bentham Science Publishers | 5 |
| BioOne | 228 |
| Bioscientifica | 4 |
| Bloomberg BNA | 1 |
| BMJ Online | 7 |
| BuildingGreen, LLC | 2 |
| Cambridge University Press | 14 |
| ChemNetBase | 1 |
| Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 1 |
| Company of Biologists | 7 |
| CSIRO | 1 |
| EBSCO | 50,769 |
| Electrochemical Society | 9 |
| Elsevier ScienceDirect | 4,051 |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc | 1 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 229 |
| Future Medicine Complete | 1 |
| Future Science | 2 |
| Gale | 1 |
| Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research | 1 |
| Google.com | 1 |
| Hein Online | 6,848 |
| Highwire Press | 74 |
| Hindawi | 533 |
| IEEE Xplore | 5,866 |
| IET Digital Library | 71 |
| IMR Press | 4 |
| IngentaConnect | 11 |
| Institute of Physics | 142 |
| John Libbey EUROTEXT | 1 |
| J-STAGE | 3 |
| JSTOR | 454 |
| Karger | 3 |
| Korea Information Science Society (KISS) | 1 |
| Lexis Nexis | 1 |
| MAG (Mark Allen Group) | 2 |
| Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 59 |
| MDPI Open Access Journals | 192 |
| MedicinesComplete | 1 |
| Microbiology Society | 6 |
| MIT Libraries | 1 |
| National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) | 1 |
| National Library of Medicine | 1 |
| Nature | 54 |
| NCBI | 275 |
| New England Journal of Medicine | 6 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 38 |
| Ovid | 145 |
| Oxford University Press | 518 |
| Penton Media | 6 |
| Portland Press | 5 |
| ProQuest | 24,320 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals Open Access | 14 |
| PubMed Central | 207 |
| Radiation Research Society | 1 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 4 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | 110 |
| Royal Society Publishing | 1 |
| SAGE | 482 |
| Scientific.net | 2 |
| Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine | 1 |
| Society Of Exploration Geophysicists | 2 |
| Spandidos | 8 |
| SPIE | 16 |
| Springer | 3,006 |
| Taylor and Francis | 499 |
| The Chemical Society Of Japan | 2 |
| Thieme | 7 |
| U.S. Government Documents | 4 |
| Walter De Gruyter | 696 |
| Wiley | 1,640 |
| Other | 370 |
Disclaimer
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.