Research Guides: Chemistry: Business Research, Standards, and More

Business and Market Information

Technical & Engineering Standards
Online access to ASTM, IEEE, NFPA and more. Contact the library to request standards from AAMI, ASME, ANSI, CLSI, ISO, and other organizations.

Business and Market Research
Links to databases for researching companies and market data, including market research reports. Suggested resources: Factiva for business/company news searching and market research report databases (BCC, Plunkett)

Nexis Uni Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sourcesfrom LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across allcontent types, personalization features such as Alerts and savedsearches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders andannotated documents.

How to Read a Patent - basic guide developed by a law firm. Hint: "A" patent is published application, "B" is a granted patent (enforceable).

Google Patents
Good starting search (patent number, general topic, known inventor name, known company name)

Derwent Innovations Index
Derwent Innovations Index indexes patents of chemical, electrical and mechanical inventions from 40 patent-issuing authorities worldwide. Users may search by topic, inventor, patent assignee, patent number, classification codes, as well as searching by cited patents, and by chemical compounds. Patent titles and abstracts are enhanced by Derwent patent experts for increased clarity and better topic searching. TIP: Search by US* in the (Patent # field) to limit to US patents.

Derwent - Advanced Search Tips
Help with searching for specific country's patents (e.g., US) through an Advanced Search
Lens.org Patent Search
Free patent search tool with extensive filtering and analysis options.
Patent Classification Browsing
Patent classification is a system for organizing patents into specific technology groupings. US patents now use the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) system.

CEAS Library Guide on Patents: guides.libraries.uc.edu/patents provides many more resources.

Includes information on ChemDraw, Gaussian and more. Contact Ted.Baldwin@uc.edu with questions on installation of software.

UC Libraries access to some popular newspapers and magazines (including current day):

Music & Theater/Opera Video and Audio (with thanks to CCM's college library)

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