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Standards and patents

British Standards Online The British Standards Online provide full text access to selected standards along side summaries of an additional 39,000 documents.   If you are having trouble viewing the document, please download and install the necessary FileOpen plug-in.
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Espacenet Patent Search Espacenet 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 search Search the US patent office online. Many patents available in full text.
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These databases provide access to journal articles that you can use as evidence to underpin your academic work.

IEEE Xplore Find 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 Library ACM 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.
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