Notes Week 9
Copyright: United States Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/ [part of the Library of Congress]. Note the links to search copyright records.
Patents & Trademarks: United States Patent and Trademark Office: http://www.uspto.gov/
1790 to current. However, the indexing was created using some very poor OCR software. You must be very generous when searching. Since the USPTO Patents database is not searchable by assignee or abstract before 1976, the LexisNexis search engine is invaluable. One you have locateda patent number, then use the PTO database (or the PDF viewers mentioned below) to view images.
Patent Classification: http://www.uspto.gov/go/classification/
The USPTO database contains images of patents from 1790 onward. Before 1976 patents can only be searched by patent number, issue date, or current classification. To view images, which are in TIFF format, follow these instuctions: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/images.htm.
If you do not want to install the TIFF viewing softward, you can generate PDFs by entering the patent number into one of two free databases:
- Pat2pdf: http://www.pat2pdf.org/
- Patent Fetcher: http://free.patentfetcher.com/Patent-Fetcher-Form.php
- Patent Retriever: http://www.patentretriever.com/
Famous Patents:
Thomas Edison - Light Bulb: 223898
Alexander Graham Bell -Telegraphy (Telephone) 174465
Abraham Lincoln - Manner of Bouying Vessels: 6469
Wright Bros. - Flying Machine: 821393
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi - Statute of Liberty (design patent): D11023
Jacob W. Davis for Levi Strauss and Co. - blue jeans: 139121
Walter Frederick Morrison - Frisbee (design patent): D183626
Fermi-Szilard Neutronic Reactor: 2708656
Steven P. Jobs patents:See Women Inventors Index, 1790-1895: http://www.lib.muohio.edu/epub/govlaw/FemInv/sub.php?iname=Domestic
Google Patents: http://www.google.com/patents
Intellectual Property (IP) Resources
Intellectual Property - from Wex (a collaborative online legal dictionary and encyclopedia from Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute)
NTIS: http://www.ntis.gov/
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS): http://www.ntis.gov/. The NTIS Database produced by the National Technical Information Service, is the preeminent resource for accessing the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. NTIS is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio visual products from Federal sources. Additionally, information is available from international government departments and other international organizations including those from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries. The freely available NTIS database from ntis.gov covers only 1990 onward, and is very inadequate. The database is best searched via a commercial vendor, such as our subscription through CSA. Coverage in the CSA database is from 1964 to present.
Energy Citations Database: http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/.
Energy Citations Database contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.
DOE Information Bridge: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
U.S. Department of Energy research documents in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental cleanup, energy technologies, and other topics.
National Environmental Publications Information System (NEPIS): http://nepis.epa.gov/
The NEPIS database contains more than 9,000 full-text U.S. EPA documents from the early 1990s to the present.
Science Accelerator: http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/
This database searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy.
E-Print Network: http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
A gateway to over 22,000 Web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines of interest to DOE.
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)'s Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET): http://www.dtic.mil/
Provides access to citations of unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents.
NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/
Retrieves technical reports from the early days of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) from 1915 through 1958 - to the present NASA and all of their research branches.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Data files can be imported into SPSS, SAS, or other statisical programs. Help is available on their Web site. Special tutorials can be arranged by contacting the University of Denver liaison to ICPSR, Chris Brown at cbrown@du.edu. For more information see the Research Guide. Access from ON CAMPUS.
The ICPSR database contains hundreds of historic statistical series that were originally published by the U.S. government.
GPO's Digitization and Preservation Initiatives: http://www.fdlp.gov/home/about/453-digitization?flag=searchp&st_3=R
The National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications: Initial Planning Statement: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/about/reports/natbib0604.pdf
FDsys Web Harvesting White Paper: http://www.fdlp.gov/home/repository/doc_view/543-web-harvesting-white-paper
Documents for a Digital Democracy: A Model for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century: http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/documents-for-a-digital-democracy [produced by Ithaka S+R]
FDLP File Repository [lots of interesting reading]: http://www.fdlp.gov/component/docman/
Depository Library Council (DLC) Meetings: http://www.fdlp.gov/home/repository/cat_view/177-outreach/97-events/101-depository-library-council-dlc-meetings
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ [known as The CIA World Factbook]
Topozone: http://www.topozone.com/ Now part of http://www.trails.com/
MSR Maps: http://msrmaps.com/
American Factfinder: http://factfinder.census.gov/
Wetlands Digital Data and Mapping: http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/Data/Mapper.html
USGS National Geospatial Program: http://www.usgs.gov/ngpo/
National Atlas of the United States: http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
The National Map: http://nationalmap.gov/
Geo.data.gov: http://geo.data.gov/
ArcGIS Explorer - Free GIS viewer
Use the Web version, or download the client version for great functionality: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer/