SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
e-Reference Internet Links
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General Science
- Librarian's Index to the Internet, Sciences
http://lii.org/pub/topic/scitech - National Science Digital Library: online science education collections.
http://nsdl.org/ - Vega: a repository of science related video documentaries.
http://www.vega.org.uk/home.html - Nobel Foundation: a site with information on all Nobel Prize winners, including videos of their presentations.
http://nobelprize.org/ - ScienceDaily.com: Daily science news.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/ - ScienceWatch.com: news based on citation patterns in the science literature.
http://www.sciencewatch.com/
Technical Report Servers
- NTIS: National Technical Information Service
The main clearinghouse for reports that contractors have written on federally funded scientific and technical research. The full text of the reports can be purchased. The index is available from 1990 to the present.
http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.aspx - NASA Technical Reports
A searchable index that includes some full texts (in postscript format).
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/ - OSTI Information Bridge
The Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information hosts this searchable index of DOE technical reports, and DOE funded conference papers, books, dissertations, and patents. 150,00 documents, all full text, from 1994 to the present.
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/advancedsearch.jsp - Science.gov
A directory of Federal science-related sites with links to technical databases such as the GrayLIT network, NTIS, and the PrePRINT network.
http://www.science.gov/ - For more computer science technicial reports , see our Computer Science Internet Links page.
Patents
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Also, search their Patent Database from 1976 to the present; abstracts only, no full patent image. The resources here are free. Advantage: Unlimited results and free. Patent applications. Disadvantage: Limited data for older patents. US patents only. Clumsy search interface.
http://www.uspto.gov/ - Espacenet
A free site for patents from Europe, Japan and the World Intellectual Property Organization made available from the European Patent Office. Also has some US patents and US patent applications. Allows international classification searches.
http://ep.espacenet.com/ - Google Patent Search
Over 7 million US patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are now searchable through Google. Advantage: Better information on older US patents than the USPTO. Disadvantages: Fewer searchable fields than USPTO, and only returns first hundred results.
http://www.google.com/patents/ - Delphion (formerly IBM)
Commercial database by ISI. You can get a free account, but free searching is severely limited. Free: US patents, no classification or citation searches. Subscription: European and Japanese patents, complex searching and linking. Full image of patent.
http://www.delphion.com/ - Patent Finding Guide
Made available from the University of California at San Diego.
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/howto/guides/findpatents.html