Updated NPL Collection Now Available in PATENTSCOPE
October 2, 2024
The Non-Patent Literature (NPL) collection in PATENTSCOPE was updated last week, providing more recent content from the publishers who are currently sharing their data with WIPO:
- IEEE: Both open and closed access documents are available.
- Nature: Open access articles with full text and bibliographic data.
- MDPI: Open access articles with full text and bibliographic data.
- Wikipedia: scientific and technical articles filtered by WIPO’s classifier.
While the documents from IEEE are searchable, the full text is accessible through links to IEEE Xplore. Closed access documents require either a subscription or ad-hoc payment for viewing and downloading. However, the full text of open access documents from Nature, MDPI, and Wikipedia is displayed directly in PATENTSCOPE, with highlighted search keywords. These documents can also be translated into other languages using WIPO Translate.