Electronic Non-Patent Literature Available at the USPTO

The Scientific and Technical Information (STIC) provides examiners access to Non-Patent Literature (NPL) through multiple electronic tools purchased from various publishers. These tools are available to examiners, organized by technology center (TC), on the NPL web page which is located on the Patent Examiner's Toolkit. NPL encompasses all the TC subject areas and includes electronic books, periodicals, conferences, standards, dissertations, and much more. STIC currently subscribes to 61,000+ electronic journals and over 585,000+ electronic books in full text. The following charts provide a sampling of e-journal and e-book resources available to examiners.

As of October 1, 2021

Major Publishers of Electronic Non-Patent Literature Available at USPTO - Electronic Books

 

PublishereBook Count
ACM Digital Library10,144
AIAA Aerospace Research Central1,099
AIP Scitation2,357
American Chemical Society1,642
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics289
ASME Digital Collection1,230
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library1,840
BioOne48
Cambridge University Press1,552
Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive1
CRC NETBASE4,807
CREDOreference51
DOAB Directory of Open Access Books16
EBSCOhost7,276
Elsevier ScienceDirect10,737
Freely Accessible General Interest Journals2
Freely Accessible Social Science Journals24
Hein Online121,697
Highwire Press43
IEEE Xplore40,890
Informa Healthcare655
IngentaConnect2
Institution of Engineering and Technology18
Knovel10,307
National Library of Medicine1
NCBI6,271
OnePetro.org1
O'Reilly Media, Inc47,342
Other Publishers171
Ovid2
Oxford University Press685
ProQuest 21,0917
Royal Society of Chemistry929
SPIE Digital Library12,067
Springer Link100,792
Taylor and Francis Online16,165
Thieme Connect305
VLeBooks2
Wiley Online Library4,926

Major Publishers of Electronic Non-Patent Literature Available at USPTO - Electronic Journals

 

PublisherJournal Count
ACM Digital Library170
AIAA Aerospace Research Central16
AIP Scitation20
Allen Press3
American Association for the Advancement of Science5
American Association of Immunologists5
American Association of Neurological Surgeons5
American Chemical Society52
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics9
American Mathematical Society6
American Medical Association17
American Nuclear Society5
American Physical Society35
American Physiological Society14
American Phytopathological Society3
American Roentgen Ray Society2
American Society for Cell Biology2
American Society For Clinical Investigation1
American Society for Microbiology23
American Society of Clinical Oncology5
American Society of Hematology3
American Veterinary Medical Association2
Annual Reviews52
ARVO Publishing2
ASME Digital Collection31
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library20
Audio Engineering Society1
Bentham Science Publishers3
BioOne224
Bioscientifica5
Bloomberg BNA2
BMJ Online5
BuildingGreen, LLC2
Cambridge University Press13
Cell Press1
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology1
Company of Biologists7
CSIRO1
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals209
EBSCOhost29,585
Electrochemical Society10
Elsevier ScienceDirect3,644
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc1
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology1
Freely Accessible Science Journals4
Frontiers in Bioscience3
Galegroup1
GeneCards1
Google.com1
GPO (Government Printing Office)3
Hein Online3,218
Highwire Press98
Hindawi3
IEEE Xplore6,295
IngentaConnect231
Institute of Physics142
IOS Press1
John Libbey EUROTEXT1
J-STAGE4
JSTOR213
Karger3
Lexis Nexis1
Mary Ann Liebert Publishers54
MedicinesComplete1
Microbiology Society6
MIT Libraries1
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)1
National Institute of Standards and Technology1
National Library of Medicine1
Nature49
NCBI12
New England Journal of Medicine3
OnePetro.org122
Optical Society of America38
Other Publishers52
OverDrive2
Ovid134
Oxford University Press160
Penton Media6
Portland Press5
ProQuest22,022
Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals Open Access7
PubMed Central205
Radiation Research Society1
Royal Society of Chemistry126
SAGE503
Scientific.net Journals2
Society Of Exploration Geophysicists2
Society of Petroleum Engineers28
Spandidos8
SPIE Digital Library16
Springer Link3,182
Taylor and Francis Online290
The Chemical Society Of Japan2
Thieme Connect7
Trans Tech Publications1
Walter De Gruyter Publishing5
Westlaw1
Wiley Online Library797

Disclaimer

Patent examiners are not required to search every listed resource in the examination of an application. The examiner will determine the most appropriate resources for that application by relying upon their professional judgment and assessment of disclosed and claimed subject matter in the application under consideration.