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 101,000+ electronic journals and over 537,000+ electronic books in full text. The following charts provide a sampling of e-journal and e-book resources available to examiners.
As of May 2, 2024
Major Publishers of Electronic Non-Patent Literature Available at USPTO - Electronic Books
| Publisher | eBook Count |
|---|---|
| ACM Digital Library | 10,158 |
| AIAA Aerospace Research Central | 1,087 |
| AIP Publishing | 2,978 |
| ASME Digital Collection | 736 |
| ASTM International | 1,812 |
| American Chemical Society | 1,551 |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 288 |
| BioOne | 48 |
| CREDOreference | 1,184 |
| ChemNetBase | 9 |
| DOAB Directory of Open Access Books | 16 |
| EBSCOhost | 8,655 |
| Elsevier ScienceDirect | 10,492 |
| Freely Accessible Social Science Journals | 23 |
| Hein Online | 119,086 |
| Highwire Press | 43 |
| IEEE Xplore | 49,959 |
| IET Digital Library | 429 |
| JSTOR | 12,995 |
| Knovel | 11,568 |
| MedicinesComplete | 1 |
| Mit Press | 180 |
| NCBI | 7,527 |
| O'Reilly Media, Inc | 53,313 |
| Other Publishers | 1,135 |
| Ovid | 2 |
| Oxford University Press | 778 |
| ProQuest | 5,365 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | 923 |
| SPIE Digital Library | 13,023 |
| Springer | 194,555 |
| Taylor & Francis | 21,723 |
| Thieme Connect | 318 |
| Westlaw | 1 |
| Wiley | 5,993 |
Major Publishers of Electronic Non-Patent Literature Available at USPTO - Electronic Journals
| Publisher | eJournal Count |
|---|---|
| ACM Digital Library | 171 |
| AIAA Aerospace Research Central | 15 |
| AIP Publishing | 38 |
| ARVO Publishing | 2 |
| ASME Digital Collection | 30 |
| ASTM International | 20 |
| Allen Press | 4 |
| American Association for Cancer Research | 10 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | 5 |
| American Association of Immunologists | 5 |
| American Association of Neurological Surgeons | 5 |
| American Chemical Society | 67 |
| 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 | 14 |
| American Phytopathological Society Current | 3 |
| American Roentgen Ray Society | 1 |
| American Society For Clinical Investigation | 1 |
| American Society for Cell Biology | 2 |
| American Society for Horticulture Science | 2 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 23 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology | 5 |
| American Society of Clinical Pathology | 1 |
| American Society of Hematology | 3 |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2 |
| American Veterinary Medical Association | 2 |
| American Society For Biochemistry And Molecular Biology | 2 |
| Annual Reviews | 53 |
| Associated Press | 1 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 1 |
| BMJ Online | 5 |
| Bangladesh Journals Online | 1 |
| Bentham Science Publishers | 5 |
| BioOne | 228 |
| Bioscientifica | 4 |
| Bloomberg BNA | 1 |
| BuildingGreen, LLC | 2 |
| CSIRO | 1 |
| Cambridge University Press | 13 |
| ChemNetBase | 1 |
| Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 1 |
| Company of Biologists | 7 |
| DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals | 210 |
| EBSCOhost | 50,597 |
| Electrochemical Society | 9 |
| Elsevier ScienceDirect | 3,953 |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc | 1 |
| Freely Accessible Science Journals | 1 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 228 |
| Future Medicine Complete | 1 |
| Future Science | 2 |
| Galegroup | 1 |
| Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research | 1 |
| Google.com | 1 |
| Hein Online | 6,816 |
| Highwire Press | 74 |
| Hindawi | 533 |
| IEEE Xplore | 5,781 |
| IET Digital Library | 71 |
| IMR Press | 4 |
| IOS Press | 1 |
| IngentaConnect | 11 |
| Institute of Physics | 142 |
| J-STAGE | 3 |
| JSTOR | 442 |
| John Libbey EUROTEXT | 1 |
| Karger | 3 |
| Korea Information Science Society (KISS) | 1 |
| Lexis Nexis | 1 |
| MAG (Mark Allen Group) | 2 |
| MDPI Open Access Journals | 192 |
| MIT Libraries | 1 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Publishers | 59 |
| Microbiology Society | 6 |
| NCBI | 10 |
| National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) | 1 |
| National Library of Medicine | 1 |
| Nature | 54 |
| New England Journal of Medicine | 6 |
| O'Reilly Media, Inc | 1 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 38 |
| Other Publishers | 158 |
| Ovid | 145 |
| Oxford University Press | 517 |
| Penton Media | 6 |
| Portland Press | 5 |
| ProQuest | 24,181 |
| PubMed Central | 207 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals Open Access | 14 |
| Radiation Research Society | 1 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 4 |
| Royal Society Publishing | 1 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | 110 |
| SAGE | 477 |
| SPIE Digital Library | 16 |
| Scientific.net Journals | 2 |
| Society Of Exploration Geophysicists | 2 |
| Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine | 1 |
| Spandidos | 8 |
| Springer Link | 376 |
| Springer | 2,575 |
| Taylor & Francis | 490 |
| The Chemical Society Of Japan | 2 |
| Thieme Connect | 7 |
| US Government Documents | 4 |
| Walter De Gruyter | 696 |
| Wiley | 1,116 |
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.