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 78,000+ electronic journals and over 359,000 electronic books in full text. The following charts provide a sampling of e-journal and e-book resources available to examiners.
As of February 18, 2021
Major Publishers of Electronic Non-Patent Literature Available at USPTO - Electronic Books
| Publisher | eBook Count |
| ACM Digital Library | 10,214 |
| AIAA Aerospace Research Central | 1,172 |
| AIP Scitation | 2,303 |
| ASME Digital Collection | 1,233 |
| American Chemical Society | 2,043 |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 289 |
| BioOne | 48 |
| CREDOreference | 50 |
| Cold Spring Harbor | 60 |
| EBSCO Publishing | 6,931 |
| Elsevier ScienceDirect | 9,037 |
| Hein Online | 155,751 |
| Highwire Press | 43 |
| IEEE Xplore | 88,267 |
| Informa Healthcare | 661 |
| IngentaConnect | 3 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology | 18 |
| NCBI | 5,062 |
| National Library of Medicine | 1 |
| O'Reilly Media, Inc | 46,755 |
| Ovid | 2 |
| Oxford University Press | 685 |
| ProQuest Info & Learning Co | 2,705 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | 936 |
| SPIE Digital Library | 11,872 |
| Springer | 134,662 |
| Taylor and Francis Online | 19,993 |
| Wiley Online Library | 83 |
Major Publishers of Electronic Non-Patent Literature Available at USPTO - Electronic Journals
| Publisher | Journal Count |
| ACM Digital Library | 170 |
| AIAA Aerospace Research Central | 15 |
| AIP Scitation | 16 |
| Allen Press | 3 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | 5 |
| American Association of Immunologists | 5 |
| American Association of Neurological Surgeons | 5 |
| American Chemical Society | 138 |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 9 |
| American Mathematical Society | 6 |
| American Medical Association | 14 |
| American Nuclear Society | 4 |
| American Physical Society | 36 |
| American Physiological Society | 10 |
| American Phytopathological Society | 3 |
| American Roentgen Ray Society | 2 |
| American Society for Cell Biology | 1 |
| American Society For Clinical Investigation | 1 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology | 1 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 |
| American Veterinary Medical Association | 2 |
| Annual Reviews | 52 |
| ARVO Publishing | 2 |
| ASME Digital Collection | 31 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 1 |
| Bentham Science Publishers | 3 |
| BioOne | 225 |
| Bioscientifica | 5 |
| BMJ Online | 5 |
| Cambridge University Press | 11 |
| Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 1 |
| CSIRO | 1 |
| EBSCO Publishing | 62,052 |
| Elsevier ScienceDirect | 3,531 |
| Frontiers in Bioscience | 3 |
| Hein Online | 3,369 |
| Highwire Press | 135 |
| Hindawi | 3 |
| IEEE Xplore | 6,362 |
| IngentaConnect | 231 |
| Institute of Physics | 142 |
| IOS Press | 1 |
| John Libbey EUROTEXT | 1 |
| J-STAGE | 4 |
| JSTOR | 186 |
| Karger | 3 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Publishers | 65 |
| MedicinesComplete | 1 |
| Microbiology Society | 6 |
| MIT Libraries | 1 |
| National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) | 1 |
| National Library of Medicine | 1 |
| Nature | 36 |
| NCBI | 10 |
| New England Journal of Medicine | 3 |
| Optical Society of America | 41 |
| Ovid | 133 |
| Oxford University Press | 142 |
| Penton Media | 6 |
| Portland Press | 6 |
| PubMed Central | 205 |
| Radiation Research Society | 1 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | 148 |
| SAGE | 678 |
| Scientific.net Journals | 2 |
| Society Of Exploration Geophysicists | 2 |
| Society of Petroleum Engineers | 28 |
| Spandidos | 8 |
| SPIE Digital Library | 16 |
| Springer | 2,474 |
| Taylor and Francis Online | 310 |
| The Chemical Society Of Japan | 2 |
| Thieme Connect | 7 |
| Walter De Gruyter Publishing | 6 |
| Wiley Online Library | 758 |
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.