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Mathematics: Patents & Technical Reports
Finding Patents
- The USPTO Patent DatabasesSearch the full text of patents 1976 - present; patents issued 1790 - 1975 are searchable by patent number or issue date. The Patent Application Database contains all patent applications published since 2001.
- EspacenetA free patent search tool, including 80 million patent documents from the European Patent Office, the USPTO, and other countries worldwide, searchable by full text.
- The LensA patent search database including records from patent offices worldwide. It also allows searching of gene sequences.
Technical Reports
- Department of Energy - Office of ScienceSearch across information published by all DOE offices, laboratories, and websites.
- Science.govScience.gov is a search engine providing access to millions of pages of scientific information provided by federal agencies.
- SciTech ConnectSearch publicly available research documents, including technical reports, from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
- TRAIL: Technical Report and Image LibraryUse the TRAIL search tool to find and access digital versions of U.S. technical reports published prior to 1975.
- govinfoThis federal repository allows searching and downloading of documents published by all branches of the U.S. government
- NTIS - National Technical Information ServiceIndex of reports available from The National Technical Information Service, which is the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information.
- Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)OSTI provides access to DOE scientific and technical information (STI) through a suite of web-based, searchable discovery tools and other commonly used search engines, offering ever-expanding sources of R&D information to DOE, the research community, and the science-attentive public.
