British Standards OnlineThe British Standards Online provide full text access to selected standards along side summaries of an additional 39,000 documents.
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Espacenet Patent SearchEspacenet offers free access to more than 70 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today.
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US Patent Office searchSearch the US patent office online. Many patents available in full text.
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Research databases
These databases provide access to journal articles that you can use as evidence to underpin your academic work.
IEEE XploreFind articles and other information from the journals, proceedings and standards published by IEEE and by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Full-text is from 1988 to present with some selected earlier content.
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ACM Digital LibraryACM publishes 50+ peer-reviewed journals in computing and IT. They cover emerging and established research, practical and theoretical. ACM journals are led by thought leaders and published rapidly.