Epodoc - European Patent Office

• Updated daily
• Patent numbers from the year 1887, searchable text for various countries from 1965
• Contains references to the EPO’s systematically classified search documentation
• Consists of published applications, granted patents and classified nonpatent literature
• Corresponds to the DocDB which is the internal EPO master file used for the management of the search documentation.
• Bibliographic data is available from more than 100 countries or other patent authorities.
• Records contain bibliographic data, title, abstract written either in English, French, German or the original language, they also include the name of patent applicant and inventor and IPC, CPC; FI, FT and US classification symbols
• Patent and non-patent documents cited during the search, examination or grant procedure.
• PAJ Patent Abstracts of Japan is included

World patents Index (WPI) - Derwent

• Consists of bibliographic data and patent abstracts from more than 40 countries and European and PCT patents.
• Contains documents from Research Disclosures and International Technology Disclosures
• Updated every 3 or 4 days
• Covers 37,4 million inventions
• Coverage varies by subject matter, the earliest is from 1963

EUREG - European Patent Office

• European patent register
• Bibliographic, legal and administrative information
• Coverage from 1978
• Updated daily
• Based on the data available in the Patent Information Register

Alloys EPO

• Ferrous and Non-ferrous alloys
• Patent documents and classified NPL
• Numeric searching available
• Update depends on deliveries of the database manager

Laminates

• RM5N Laminates up to 1971
• RM25 Laminates from 1971
• RM26 Laminates from 2000
• A search system for layered products and for methods or apparatus for manufacturing these layered products.
• Updated monthly

Fulltext databases EPO

Full-text in English

The databases include full-text documents in English published in

• Australia, AU
• Canada, CA
• China, CN, (machine translated)
• Europe, EP
• Great Britain, GB
• Japan, JP (machine translated)
• Korea, KR (machine translated)
• United States, US
• PCT applications, WO
• United States, US

The databases cover the complete collection of EP and WO documents.

Full-text in German

The database includes full-text in German documents published in

• Austria, AT
• Belgium, BE
• Europe, EP
• Germany, DE
• Switzerland, CH
• PCT applications, WO.

The database covers the complete collection of EP and WO documents.

Full-text in French

The database includes full-text in French documents published in

• Belgium, BE
• Canada, CA
• Europe, EP
• France, FR
• Switzerland, CH
• PCT applications, WO.

The databases cover the complete collection of EP and WO documents.

Full-text Swiss documents in Italian

The database includes documents in Italian published in

• Switzerland, CH

Full-text in Spanish

The database includes full-text in Spanish published in

• Spain, ES

Full-text in Dutch

The database includes full-text in Dutch published in

• Belgium, BE

STN

• Provides global access to published research, journal literature, patents
• structures, sequences and properties
• Contains more than 180 databases in technology, science and patent
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• Examples of databases are Chemical Abstracts, CA Plus, CAS Registry,
• Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI), Inpafam and Inpadoc
• Operated jointly by CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe

Orbit

• Contains information from more than 100 authorities in the subject of patents and design.
• The major databases are FamPat, FullPat and FullText, the databases FamPat and FullPat both have information from more than 100 authorities and FullText have fulltext information in English from 24 authorities.
• The databases are updated weekly.

Academic Search Elite

Contains approx. 3500 scientific journals from various fields, about 2000 in full text.

• Constantly updated.
• Published by EBSCO.

ASC American Chemical Society

• Contains over 40 scientific journals in full text.

Analytical Abstracts

• A reference database covering a range of sources.
• Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• From 1980.

BASE

• Search engine targeting scientific open access journals of all disciplines.
• From Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld.

BIOSIS Biological Abstracts*

• Abstracts from research articles and other publications.
• The sources are journals.
• Contains all biological and biomedical disciplines.
• From 1969.
• Updated weekly.

DOAJ Directory of open access journals

• Almost 10.000 open access journals gathered by Lunds University. 50% searchable on article level.

EBSCO Academic Collection

• E-books from various fields, e.g. chemistry
• New titles added each year.

Embase Biomedical and pharmacological data*

• A biomedical and pharmacological database produced by Elsevier.
• Covers medical and drug-related subjects.
• Sources are conference proceedings and more than 4000 biomedical journal from 70 countries.
• Produced by Elsevier.
• From 1947.
• Updated weekly.

German Automotive Collection

Contains journals such as ATZ – Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift and MTZ –

• Motortechnische Zeitschrift.
• Springer Verlag
• From 1998.

Global New Products Database (GNPD)

Contains data on new products in retail – food, beverage, beauty and personal care, healthcare, household goods and pet care.

• A Mintel database.
• Monthly updates.
• From 1996.

J-STAGE Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic

• Access to around 2000 japanese journals from various universities.

Karger

• Primarily biochemistry and medical journals from Karger Publishers.
• Contains approximately 100 journals.

MEDLINE US National Library of Medicine*

Contains biomedical literature produced by the United States National Library of Medicine, abstracts included.

• Includes data from AIDSLINE; HealthSTART; HISTLINE; SPACELINE; BIOETHICS and POPLINE.
• From 1950.
• Updated daily.

Nature journals

Contains:

• Nature (includes Nature News).
• Nature Biotechnology.
• Nature Genetics.
• Nature Medicine.
• Nature Methods.
• Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.

PUBCHEM Chemical structure and compound names*

• A database of chemical molecules and their activities.
• Contains substance descriptions and small molecules with fewer than 1000 atoms and 1000 bonds.
• Consists of three growing databases: PubChem Compounds, PubChem Substances and PubChem Assay.
• Released in 2004.

Royal Society of Chemistry Gold

• Contains approx. 40 current journals and 7 databases.
• Contains an archieve of 73 journals published between 1841-2007.

SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online

• Contains scientific open access journals, primarily from Latin America.

Science Direct Freedom Collection

• Approx 2100 scientific journals from various disciplines.
• From Elsevier.
• Contains articles between 1995 and June 30th 2018.

Scopus

• A scientific database containing abstracts from journals, conferences, patents and industry publications.
• Contains över 40 millions references dating from 1823 onwards.
• From Elsevier.
• Updated daily.

SpringerLINK

• Contains over 2300 journals from Springer Verlag.
• Some journals are Open Access.
• Coverage from 1924.

Springer Reference

• Major reference works and encyclopedias from Springer Verlag.
• Covers medicine, chemistry, technology and engineering.

SQEMEST Bibliographic data biological sequences. EST*

• A collection Expressed Sequence Tag.
• International collaboration, produced by Genbank and the DNA Database of Japan.
• Produced by European Bioinformatics Institute.
• Updated quarterly.

SQEMGSS Bibiographic data biological sequences GSS*

• A collection of Genome Sequence Scan records.
• International collaboration, produced by Genbank and the DNA Database of Japan.
• Produced by European Bioinformatics Institute.
• Updated quarterly.

SQEMOTH Bibliographic data biological sequences. EMBL Others*

• EMBL Others.
• International collaboration, produced by Genbank and the DNA Database of Japan.
• Produced by European Bioinformatics Institute.
• Updated quarterly.

SQEMWGS Bibliographic data biological sequences. WGS*

• A collection of EMBL Whole Genom Shotgun records.
• International collaboration, produced by Genbank and the DNA Database of Japan.
• Produced by European Bioinformatics Institute.
• Updated quarterly.

SQPRPUB Bibliographic data biological sequences. Uniprot+Prot*

• Public proteins and Patent records.
• The world’s most comprehensive catalogue of information about protein.
• Comprises information from Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, and PIR.
• Produced by European Bioinformatics Institute.
• Updated quarterly.

SwePub

• Theses, conference papers and journal articles.
• Published by some 40 Swedish Universities, Research Institutes and Governmental Agencies.

Synthetic Reaction Updates

A searchable literature updating service within synthetic organic chemistry.

TOXNET: TOXLINE

• Bibliographic database of drugs and chemicals.
• From the 1840s onwards.

Wiley Journals

• Subscription includes “Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology” and “Ullman’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry”.
• Approx. 1400 scientific journals, mostly technology, medicine and science.
• Published by John Wiley & Sons.
• Contains all Wiley journals since 1997.

XPTK Traditional knowledge*

• A database containing references to traditional health-care systems and global literature on medicinal and aromatic plants.
• Sources are the Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge and MAPA (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Abstracts) database.
• Published by the National Institute of Science Communication – NISCOM.
• Consists of more than 55 000 abstracts, books, conference proceedings, patents, research papers and review articles.

XPOAC Open Access Central Journal Articles*

• Open access to peer-reviewed biomedical and chemical journals.
• Includes peer reviewed research articles in all areas of physics and mathematics.
• Coverage from 1997.

XPIPCOM Ip com Prior Art*

• Full-text database.
• Contains disclosure publications from companies such as IBM, Siemens, Microsoft, Motorola, and Sony.
• Includes disclosures from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, the US Patent and Trademark Office and the Internet Society.
• Historical coverage varies according to datasource.

AIP American Insitute of Physics

• Contains 22 physics journals.

AIP Conference Proceedings

• Contains around 1200 conference publications.

arXiv

• 1,2 million open access journal articles within physics and computer science.
• Compiled by Cornell University Library.

BASE

• Search engine targeting scientific open access journals of all disciplines.
• From Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld.

DOAJ Directory of open access journals

• Almost 10.000 open access journals gathered by Lunds University. 50% searchable on article level.

German Automotive Collection

• Contains journals such as ATZ – Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift and MTZ – Motortechnische Zeitschrift.
• Springer Verlag
• From 1998.

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

• Database containing more than 1 million articles, conference papers and standards.
• Bell Labs Conference Proceedings and VDE VERLAG Conference Proceedings.
• Published by IEEE/IEE.
• Constantly updated.

INSPEC Physics Electronics Computing*

• Published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
• Contains searchable bibliographic information and abstracts within the fields of physics, computer science, and engineering, also includes astronomy, electronics, communications, ergonomics, and information technology.
• Inspec contains more than 11 million records covering over 4,000 journals, around 2,200 conference proceedings, as well as books, reports and dissertations from 1969.
• An archive file extends coverage to the period 1898 to 1968.
• Updated weekly.

IOP Science Institute of Physics

• Some 130 physics journal from the Institute of Physics and other learned societies.

J-STAGE Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic

• Access to around 2400 japanese journals from various universities.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

• Conference proceedings series focused on the latest research in computer science.
• Approx 370.000 conference papers and a yearly growth of some 6000 papers.
• With subseries LNAI & LNBI and LNCS.
• Published by Springer Verlag.

Optics Infobase Optical Society of America

• Contains both journals and conference proceedings.
• By OSA Publishing.
• Regularly updated.

Oxford journals

• Some 280 journals from Oxford University Press
• Coverage from 1996.

SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online

• Contains scientific open access journals, primarily from Latin America.
• Science Direct Freedom Collection
• Approx 2300 scientific journals from various disciplines.
• From Elsevier
• Updated continuously – even before printed versions are issued.

SciTech Connect

• Consists of 2,5 millions references including 300.000 full text journals within the fields of chemistry, physics and environmental science.
• From the U.S. department of energy.
• Coverage from 1943.

Scopus

• A scientific database containing abstracts from journals, conferences, patents and industry publications.
• Contains över 40 millions references dating from 1823 and onwards.
• From Elsevier.
• Updated daily.

SPIE. Digital Library

• Contains subjects such as optics, nanotechnology, lasers, signal processing, electronic imaging, information technologies, medical imaging etc.
• The database holds both journals and conference proceedings.
• From Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.

SpringerLINK

• Contains over 2100 journals.
• Some journals are Open Access.
• Coverage from 1924.
• Published by Springer Verlag.

SwePub Academic publications at Swedish universities

• Dissertations, conference papers and journal articles.
• Published by some 40 Swedish Universities, Research Institutes and Governmental Agencies.

TDB IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletins*

• Full text documents.
• Focuses on semiconductors, computer devices, information storage, printing devices, basic electronic circuit, optics, and electronic communications.
• Coverage 1958.
• Updated monthly.

XPAIP American Institute of Physics documents*

• Full text database.
• Articles from the American Institute of Physics.

XPETSI European Telecom Std Institute*

• Full text standards for ICT (Information and Communications Technologies), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, broadcast and internet technologies.
• Approximate update quarterly.

XPIEE Inst. of Electrical Engineers (IEE)*

• Full text documents within the fields of modern electronic such as optics and tele communication.
• Published by IEE.
• Updated monthly.

XPIETF Internet Engineering Task Force*

• Searchable Internet standards in full text.
• Approximately updated quarterly.

XPIPCOM Prior Art*

• Full-text database.
• Contains disclosure publications from companies such as IBM, Siemens, Microsoft, Motorola, and Sony.
• Includes disclosures from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology the US Patent and Trademark Office and the Internet Society.
• Historical coverage varies according to datasource.

XPI3E Inst. of Electrical /electronics Engineers*

• Full text documents within the field of modern electronics, such as electronic science and engineering, telecommunications, optoelectronics and optical communication.
• Published by IEEE.
• Sources are industry standards and conference proceedings.

XPJPEG Joint Photographic Expert Group Std*

• JPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XR standards.

XPMISC NPL Full-Text : Miscellaneous Providers*

• Full text documents from Alcatel, Siemens.
• Conference proceedings in the field of speech recognition.

XPIOP Institute Of Physics*

• Contains full-text of electronics journals published by the Institute of Physics.

XPOAC Open Access Central Journal Articles*

• Open access to peer-reviewed biomedical and chemical journals.
• Includes peer reviewed research articles in all areas of physics and mathematics.
• Coverage from 1997.

XP3GPP Drafts or 3G telecom standards*

• Contains full-text of drafts of the 3rd generation partnership project.
• 3GPP was created in December 1998.

XPLNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science*

• Research results in computer science.
• Sources are proceedings, post-proceedings and research monographs and state-of-theart surveys.
• Approximate update quarterly.

Wiley Journals

• Subscription includes “Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology” and “Ullman’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry”.
• Approx. 1400 scientific journals, mostly technology, medicine and science.
• Published by John Wiley & Sons.
• Contains all Wiley journals since 1997.

BASE

• Search engine targeting scientific open access to journals of all disciplines.
• From Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld.

COMPENDEX Computerized engineering index

• Covers most engineering disciplines.
• Article abstracts for approximately 4500 journals.
• Contains references from books, conference papers, reports and other literature.
• Coverage from 1970.
• Updated weekly.

DOAJ Directory of open access journals

• Almost 10.000 open access journals gathered by Lunds University. 50% searchable on article level.

German Automotive Collection

• Contains journals such as ATZ – Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift and MTZ – Motortechnische Zeitschrift.
• Springer Verlag.
• From 1998.

IEEE Xplore

• Database containing more than 1 million articles, conference papers and standards.
• Bell Labs Conference Proceedings and VDE VERLAG Conference Proceedings.
• Published by IEEE/IEE.
• Constantly updated.

J-STAGE Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic

• Access to around 2400 japanese journals from various universities.

NPL Non-Patent Literature

• Contains EPO cited or classified bibliographic NPL data.
• Includes article abstracts, journal articles, book articles, conference proceedings, database citations, and Internet.
• From 1989.
• Updated daily.

SAE Technical Papers

• Contains more than 102.000 peer-reviewed technical papers from the automotive, aerospace and commercial vehicle industries.

SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online

• Contains scientific open access journals, primarily from Latin America.

Science Direct Freedom Collection

• Approx 2100 scientific journals from various disciplines.
• Updated continuously – even before printed versions are issued.
• From Elsevier.

SciTech Connect

• Consists of 2,5 millions references including 300.000 full text journals within the fields of chemistry, physics and environmental science.
• From the U.S. department of energy.
• Coverage from 1943.

Scopus

• A scientific database containing abstracts from journals, conferences, patents and industry publications.
• Contains över 40 millions references dating from 1823 and onwards.
• From Elsevier.
• Updated daily.

SpringerLINK

• Contains over 2100 journals.
• Some journals are Open Access.
• Coverage from 1924.
• Published by Springer Verlag.

SwePub

• Theses, conference papers and journal articles.
• Published by some 40 Swedish Universities, Research Institutes and Governmental Agencies.

Techniques de L’ingenieur

• Free online articles from various technical fields.
• In French.

Wiley Journals

• Subscription includes “Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology” and “Ullman’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry”.
• Approx. 1400 scientific journals, mostly technology, medicine and science.
• Published by John Wiley & Sons.
• Contains all Wiley journals since 1997.

XPESP Full-text ELSEVIER Publications

• XPESP/Science Direct, Elsevier Publishing Group.
• Full text articles published since 1994.
• The technical fields consists of electrical physics, mechanics and chemistry.
• Updated bi-weekly.

XPIPCOM Ip com Prior Art

• Full-text database
• Contains disclosure publications from companies such as IBM, Siemens, Microsoft, Motorola, and Sony.
• Includes disclosures from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology the US Patent and Trademark Office and the Internet Society.
• The historical coverage varies according to the specific datasource.

XPOAC Open Access Central Journal Articles

• Open access to peer-reviewed biomedical and chemical journals.
• Includes peer reviewed research articles in all areas of physics and mathematics.
• Coverage from 1997.

XPRD Research Disclosure

• Disclosure of inventions published in full text.
• All records are full text searchable and include the complete disclosure image.
• Covers all areas of science and technology.
• Coverage from 1960.
• Updated monthly.

XPSPRNG

• Springer Journal Articles.