Subject Guide » Engineering, General
Patents
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Patents provide protection for inventors, enabling them to manufacture
and profit from their inventions without fear of competition. Patents
are usually granted for a limited time.
Click on the following link to browse the alphabetical subject index to the U.S. Patent Classification System.
Scopus
Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial
RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)
Engineering Village Engineering Village features access to Compendex and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database.
A handy guide to this database is located here.
USPTO Patent DatabaseFull text for all classes of patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Includes graphics and indexing of all US patents from 1976-date.
Esp@cenetPatent information service from the European Patent Office. Provides searching of worldwide patents.
United Kingdom Patent Office
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