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

 

Publisher eBook Count
ACM Digital Library 10,144
AIAA Aerospace Research Central 1,099
AIP Scitation 2,357
American Chemical Society 1,642
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 289
ASME Digital Collection 1,230
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library 1,840
BioOne 48
Cambridge University Press 1,552
Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive 1
CRC NETBASE 4,807
CREDOreference 51
DOAB Directory of Open Access Books 16
EBSCOhost 7,276
Elsevier ScienceDirect 10,737
Freely Accessible General Interest Journals 2
Freely Accessible Social Science Journals 24
Hein Online 121,697
Highwire Press 43
IEEE Xplore 40,890
Informa Healthcare 655
IngentaConnect 2
Institution of Engineering and Technology 18
Knovel 10,307
National Library of Medicine 1
NCBI 6,271
OnePetro.org 1
O'Reilly Media, Inc 47,342
Other Publishers 171
Ovid 2
Oxford University Press 685
ProQuest  21,0917
Royal Society of Chemistry 929
SPIE Digital Library 12,067
Springer Link 100,792
Taylor and Francis Online 16,165
Thieme Connect 305
VLeBooks 2
Wiley Online Library 4,926

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

 

Publisher Journal Count
ACM Digital Library 170
AIAA Aerospace Research Central 16
AIP Scitation 20
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 52
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 9
American Mathematical Society 6
American Medical Association 17
American Nuclear Society 5
American Physical Society 35
American Physiological Society 14
American Phytopathological Society 3
American Roentgen Ray Society 2
American Society for Cell Biology 2
American Society For Clinical Investigation 1
American Society for Microbiology 23
American Society of Clinical Oncology 5
American Society of Hematology 3
American Veterinary Medical Association 2
Annual Reviews 52
ARVO Publishing 2
ASME Digital Collection 31
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library 20
Audio Engineering Society 1
Bentham Science Publishers 3
BioOne 224
Bioscientifica 5
Bloomberg BNA 2
BMJ Online 5
BuildingGreen, LLC 2
Cambridge University Press 13
Cell Press 1
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology 1
Company of Biologists 7
CSIRO 1
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals 209
EBSCOhost 29,585
Electrochemical Society 10
Elsevier ScienceDirect 3,644
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc 1
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 1
Freely Accessible Science Journals 4
Frontiers in Bioscience 3
Galegroup 1
GeneCards 1
Google.com 1
GPO (Government Printing Office) 3
Hein Online 3,218
Highwire Press 98
Hindawi 3
IEEE Xplore 6,295
IngentaConnect 231
Institute of Physics 142
IOS Press 1
John Libbey EUROTEXT 1
J-STAGE 4
JSTOR 213
Karger 3
Lexis Nexis 1
Mary Ann Liebert Publishers 54
MedicinesComplete 1
Microbiology Society 6
MIT Libraries 1
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 1
National Institute of Standards and Technology 1
National Library of Medicine 1
Nature 49
NCBI 12
New England Journal of Medicine 3
OnePetro.org 122
Optical Society of America 38
Other Publishers 52
OverDrive 2
Ovid 134
Oxford University Press 160
Penton Media 6
Portland Press 5
ProQuest 22,022
Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals Open Access 7
PubMed Central 205
Radiation Research Society 1
Royal Society of Chemistry 126
SAGE 503
Scientific.net Journals 2
Society Of Exploration Geophysicists 2
Society of Petroleum Engineers 28
Spandidos 8
SPIE Digital Library 16
Springer Link 3,182
Taylor and Francis Online 290
The Chemical Society Of Japan 2
Thieme Connect 7
Trans Tech Publications 1
Walter De Gruyter Publishing 5
Westlaw 1
Wiley Online Library 797

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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.