As the number of patents filed by Asian countries grows rapidly, researchers elsewhere in the world are struggling to find, understand and work with this information. Siân Harris finds out how some companies are helping to meet this need
Minesoft and RWS Group update PatBase
English machine translations are now available for Chinese patent documents with Minesoft's patent document delivery service PatentOrder at no extra cost
Minesoft and Tempus IP have announced an internet-based full service co-operation.
Thomson Reuters has added authoritative business and news content to the Thomson Innovation intellectual property research and analysis platform.
Engineering Information (Ei) has introduced Ei Patents to the Engineering Village 2 research and discovery platform, providing users with intelligence by using search functions and analytical tools alongside patents and databases of scientific literature.
Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working and re-thinking how we work
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
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