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Mendeley: Free Reference Manager, Collaboration Tool, & Online Catalog of...
What do you get when you combine reference manager software, PDF viewing and organization tools, a platform for collaborative research, and an online catalog of millions of documents? You get...
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Searching Chinese Patent and Non-Patent Literature on WanfangData.com
Search Chinese journals, dissertations, conference proceedings, information on Chinese companies and products, data from Chinese scientific institutes, policies and laws of China, Chinese patents,...
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Multiple Ways to Search An Online Catalog of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Free catalogs of non-patent literature (NPL) that cover the collections of multiple academic institutions can provide a valuable central search portal when a user is searching for a particular type of...
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Search Swedish Non-Patent Literature for Free on DiVA
Last week we looked at NDLTD, a central online catalog of electronic theses and dissertations. Professional patent searchers often need to locate obscure non-patent literature (NPL) prior art that...
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Locate German Technical Literature on TEMA
Gray literature, such as technical reports, theses, and conference proceedings, may disclose technology relevant to a particular patent that makes this literature valuable prior art. During...
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EDGAR: The SEC’s Financial Data Goldmine
What is the best way to find detailed financial data on a particular company? You can use a subscription database, such as Factiva, to view a “snapshot” of the current financial status of a company,...
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Free Scientific Journals from Latin America on SciELO
Patent searchers can locate a wide variety of international non-patent literature during global prior art searches by using open-access (OA) resources. Both DOAJ and OpenDOAR provide access to...
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A Central Search Portal for European Library Materials
Patent searchers may need to scour the earth for prior art when a case is very important and the traditional channels haven’t turned up the desired results. In these case, the searcher often tries to...
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5 Features to Always Look for on Search System and Database Websites
Professional patent searchers utilize many different types of search resources, including both free and subscription patent and non-patent literature databases. These databases may be accessible...
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Search Tool Tidbits: Scholrly, Clustify, and HQ Books
In the last few posts on the Intellogist Blog, we’ve focused on major updates to large patent search tools, such as Google Patents and TotalPatent. Today I’ll take a step back from the big players...
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Major Updates to Non-Patent Literature Searching on Thomson Innovation
Thomson Innovation is an important subscription-based patent search system created by Thomson Reuters, and Release 3.5 of the system was recently announced in August 2012. This system update includes...
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The Latest Updates from Knovel: New Database, Subject Area, and Excel Tool
As an online subscription portal created to provide technical information for scientists and engineers, Knovel can also be harnessed by prior art searchers looking for reference information on...
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Europeana: A Central Portal for Millions of Historical Digital Objects
In a past post, we looked at the European Library website as a possible source for non-patent literature, since patent searchers sometimes need to scour the earth for prior art during an exhaustive...
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Broad Non-Patent Literature Coverage on Thomson Innovation
The Thomson Innovation System Report on Intellogist was fully reviewed and updated earlier in October, and last month I highlighted some of the major updates to non-patent literature search features on...
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A Centralized Portal to Free Biomedical Literature: Europe PubMed Central
I was recently alerted to the Europe PubMed Central portal by a post on the Science Intelligence and InfoPros blog, where Herve Basset describes the site as “not only a new Medline“: Unlike PubMed...
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A Network of Open Access Search Platforms from Springer
The major scientific publisher Springer Science+Business Media operates a number of online search platforms which allow users to access bibliographic and full-text data about journal articles and other...
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New on JSTOR: Books and Expanded Free Content!
JSTOR is a subscription-based online archive of journal articles and scholarly content, produced by not-for-profit organization ITHAKA, which may be one useful source of non-patent literature prior art...
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The Next Google Scholar? Scholrly’s Potential for Locating Non-Patent Literature
Scholrly is a free search engine for academic writing that we first heard about back in the summer of 2012, and the public Beta version of this site was recently released in early January 2013, after...
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5 Unique Ways to Refine or Expand Result Sets with EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Industries has developed a number of innovative search tools accessible on its flagship platform, EBSCOhost. For instance, EBSCOhost offers a unique visual search option which we profiled in a...
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The Latest Patent Search News: Japanese Patent Translations on Espacenet,...
The world of patent search tools moves at a lightening-quick pace, and professional patent searchers need to stay updated on the latest changes to both free and subscription patent and non-patent...
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