GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY DATABASES GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY DATABASES 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction and scope of the guide ......................................................................................................4 2. Review of patent database services......................................................................................................5 (a) Overview................................................................................................................................................5 (b) Structure and methodology ...................................................................................................................6 (i) Coverage...........................................................................................................................................6 (ii) Search options ..................................................................................................................................7 (iii) Languages.........................................................................................................................................8 (iv) Results and display/visualization formats .........................................................................................8 (c) Database content sets...........................................................................................................................9 (i) INPADOCDB bibliographic data .......................................................................................................9 (ii) INPADOC legal status data...............................................................................................................9 (iii) Derwent World Patent Index .............................................................................................................9 (d) Fee-based commercial databases ......................................................................................................10 (i) Orbit.com.........................................................................................................................................10 (ii) PatBase/PatBase Express..............................................................................................................13 (iii) STN .................................................................................................................................................16 (iv) Thomson Innovation........................................................................................................................18 (v) TotalPatent......................................................................................................................................20 (vi) WIPS Global....................................................................................................................................22 (e) Free-of-charge commercial databases................................................................................................24 (i) Google Patents ...............................................................................................................................24 (ii) Patent Lens .....................................................................................................................................26 (f) Databases provided by WIPO and national and regional offices........................................................28 (i) World Intellectual Property Organization ........................................................................................28 (ii) Australia ..........................................................................................................................................30 (iii) Canada............................................................................................................................................32 (iv) People’s Republic of China.............................................................................................................34 (v) Germany..........................................................................................................................................35 (vi) The United Kingdom .......................................................................................................................36 (vii) Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China......................................................................37 (viii) Israel................................................................................................................................................38 (ix) India.................................................................................................................................................39 (x) Japan...............................................................................................................................................40 (xi) Republic of Korea............................................................................................................................42 (xii) New Zealand ...................................................................................................................................43 (xiii) United States of America ................................................................................................................45 (xiv) Eurasian Patent Organization .........................................................................................................46 3. (xv) European Patent Office...................................................................................................................48 3. Review of non-patent literature database services .............................................................................50 (a) Introduction..........................................................................................................................................50 (b) Structure and methodology .................................................................................................................51 (c) Database content sets.........................................................................................................................52 (i) Inspec..............................................................................................................................................53 (ii) IP.com Prior Art Database ..............................................................................................................53 (iii) MEDLINE ........................................................................................................................................53 (iv) Embase ...........................................................................................................................................53 (d) Free-of-charge search services...........................................................................................................54 (i) Google Scholar ...............................................................................................................................54 (ii) Scirus ..............................................................................................................................................56 (iii) Entrez..............................................................................................................................................57 (iv) PubChem ........................................................................................................................................58 (v) PubMed ...........................................................................................................................................60 (vi) PubMed Central ..............................................................................................................................61 (e) Fee-based search services .................................................................................................................62 (i) Dialog ..............................................................................................................................................62 (ii) Scopus ............................................................................................................................................64 (iii) STN .................................................................................................................................................66 (iv) Thomson Innovation........................................................................................................................68 (f) Free-of-charge journal databases .......................................................................................................70 (i) Directory of Open Access Journals.................................................................................................70 (ii) SciELO ............................................................................................................................................71 (g) Fee-based journal databases..............................................................................................................73 (i) American Chemical Society ............................................................................................................73 (ii) IEEE Xplore.....................................................................................................................................74 (iii) ScienceDirect ..................................................................................................................................76