Statistics & Operations Research: 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
UNC Department of Statistics and Operations Research
Technical Reports Series
SciTech Connect
Search publicly available research documents, including technical reports, from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
National Library of Energy
Search across information published by all DOE offices, laboratories, and websites.
TRAIL: Technical Report and Image Library
Use the TRAIL search tool to find and access digital versions of U.S. technical reports published prior to 1975.
Science.gov
Science.gov is a search engine providing access to millions of pages of scientific information provided by federal agencies.
- govinfoThis federal repository allows searching and downloading of documents published by all branches of the U.S. government.
