Name | Description | URL | Â |
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United States Patent and Trademark Office: patent full-text and full-page image database | For searching and printing US patents and published US applications | [20] | |
European Patent Office: esp@cenet | For searching and printing worldwide patents and patent publications | http://ep.espacenet.com/search97cgi/s97_cgi.exe?Action=FormGen&Template=ep/EN/home.hts | [21] |
Japan Patent Office: quick guide | For searching and printing Japanese patents and patent publications | [22] | |
World Intellectual Property Organization: Intellectual Property Digital Library | For searching and printing international (PCT) applications | [23] | |
NCBI PubMed | Database of biomedical research articles | http://0-www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.brum.beds.ac.uk/entrez/query.fcgi | [24] |
Thomson Derwent | A collection of databases of biotechnology research articles for fee-based searching and retrieval | [25] | |
Chemical Abstracts Databases | A collection of databases of chemical and pharmaceutical research articles and compounds for fee-based searching and retrieval | [26] | |
STN | A collection of databases of biotechnology research articles for fee-based searching and retrieval | [27] | |
Google Scholar | A system for searching academic articles and other scholarly publications, and their citations | [28] |