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 |
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.