Table 2

Databases of patents and scientific publications

Name
Description
URL


United States Patent and Trademark Office: patent full-text and full-page image database
For searching and printing US patents and published US applications
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
[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
http://www.jpo.go.jp/quick_e/index_search.htm
[22]
World Intellectual Property Organization: Intellectual Property Digital Library
For searching and printing international (PCT) applications
http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/index.jsp
[23]
NCBI PubMed
Database of biomedical research articles
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
[24]
Thomson Derwent
A collection of databases of biotechnology research articles for fee-based searching and retrieval
http://www.derwent.com/
[25]
Chemical Abstracts Databases
A collection of databases of chemical and pharmaceutical research articles and compounds for fee-based searching and retrieval
http://www.cas.org/casdb.html
[26]
STN
A collection of databases of biotechnology research articles for fee-based searching and retrieval
http://www.cas.org/stn.html
[27]
Google Scholar
A system for searching academic articles and other scholarly publications, and their citations
http://scholar.google.com/
[28]

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