Information & Research Literacy - A self-guided Program

Patents

"A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention. Patents benefit inventors by providing them with legal protection of their inventions. However, patents also benefit the society by providing public access to technical information about these inventions, and thus accelerating innovation." - World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO)

• Valuable source of information for engineers for current developments
• Valuable source of information for business people, hoping to manufacture or develop new products & processes
• Valuable source of information for historians, economists, etc.

Standards

"A standard is a formalized set of guidelines and specifications developed to ensure that materials, products, processes, and services meet consistent and reliable criteria. It serves as a common framework, created through a consensus process involving experts and stakeholders, to facilitate uniformity, interoperability, and safety." - What is Stanrds?" by M.D, Ashikuzzaman of the LIS Education Network

• Valuable source of information for engineers, scientists, and manufacturers
• Valuable source of information for people who seek to standardize of optimize processes and services
• Could be possible also be used used in studying history and sociology and economy

中華人民共和國國家知識產權局: 專利檢索及分析

Provides full images of an extensive amount of Chinese patents published since the 1980's, in TIFF file format. In order to view the full patents, users are required to install a special viewer available under 說明書瀏覽器下載. Use of IE is recommended.
 

Espacenet (European Patent Office)

It provides full-text images of patent documents from US, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, and those published by the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Office. Bibliographic information and abstracts of Chinese and Japanese patents, and bibliographic information of patents from many other countries are also available.
 

Google Patent Search

Includes patent applications and grants from the USPTO, EPO, JPO, SIPO, WIPO, DPMA, and CIPO. Patents without English full text are machine-translated to English.

 

Patsnap

Provides access to more than 50 million worldwide patents published by the U.S., European, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Norwegian patent offices as well as the World Intellectual Property Organization and the International Patent Documentation Center. Full text/images are available for US, EP, WO, and CN patents and patent applications. This database also offers a number of analytical tools including citation analysis, patent tagging and indexing, which are not available in open access patent database. Users need to create an individual account in Patsnap to access certain features.
 

Japan Platform for Patent Information

The PAJ database provides full-image access to English translations of Japanese patents. It has over 6 million records with bibliographic data, summarized texts and major drawings. Users may also link to a facsimile of the original Japanese patent from the English version.
 

USPTO Patent Full-Text Databases

Provided by the US Patent and Trademark Office, it contains full-text images of US patents from 1790 to present.
 

European Patent Office (EPO): Useful Links

A collection of links to patent-related information and services on the internet.
 

HKUST Office of Knowledge Transfer (OKT)

OKT serves as a bridge between the HKUST research community and industry to bring University’s research output into new products and services. The site provides news & useful resources regarding invention disclosure and patent application and IP and Patent search.

 

Patent Application Alert Service

This system provides customized, email alerts to the public for free when patent applications of interest are published at USPTO. Additionally, the system offers direct access to the published applications that meet your search criteria.

 

WIPO - intellectual Property Statistics

Made available by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), it contains the World Patent Report: A Statistical Review as well as various spreadsheet files on patent application filings, such as Patent Application by Office (1883-), Patents Applications by Origin (1995-), etc.

• A standard states technical specification or other precise criteria designed to be used consistently as a rule, guideline, or definition. ¹
• Standards help ensure quality and compatibility of material, product, process or service.

ASTM compass : your portal for standards, testing, learning, & more
Provides online access to the complete set of ASTM Standards via the ASTM Compass platform. Online volumes are updated weekly and include access to work items, historical, withdrawn, and redline versions as well as workflow tools like annotations, version comparisons, bookmarks and more.

British standards online BSOL
Provides access to standards published by the British Standards Institution. Full-text is available for all modules

IEEE Xplore (1988-)
Full images of periodicals, conference proceedings, as well as standards published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).  Search Guide

¹The British Standards Institution. What is a standard? Retrieved February, 2017 from https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/standards/Information-about-standards/what-is-a-standard//

IHS Markit Standards Store by S&P Global

S&P Global is one of the most comprehensive sources of hardcopy and PDF technical industry standards and government and military standards. S&P Global provides standards and specifications from more than 460 technical societies around the world.

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Techstreet Store

Search and make online purchase of 550,000+ industry codes and standards from around the world.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) WebStore

Find and purchase U.S. and international standards from over 150 standards publishers.

Standards Organizations

ANSI - American National Standards Institute
BSI - British Standards Institution
CIE - International Commission on Illumination
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
ITU - International Telecommunication Union Standardization Sector
NISO - National Information Standards Organization
Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China
Standards Australia