Google has just launched a patent search service!

With this tool, you can search across more than 7 million patents all the way back to 1790’s. Retreive full text and images (no need to down-load a tiff plug-in).
Go to: http://www.google.com/patents or
for advanced searching, go to: http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search

More Free Patent Searching:

For Worldwide Patent (including US patents) from the European Patent Office, go to: http://ep. espacenet.com

FreePatentsOnline has a free fast search engine with pdf downloads with other for fee services
Go to: http://www.freepatentsonline.com

Patent Fetcher provides free searching with limited downloads.
Go to: http://free.patenfetcher.com/Patent-Fetcher-Form.php

Now is the time to send your course reserve requests to the library. Doing so now will assure your course reserve record will contain accurate and current information and the materials will be ready when the term begins. Your students will know what is available to them, library staff will easily find what they want, and there will be much rejoicing.

Complete information on putting materials on reserve can be found at:
http://www.library.drexel.edu/services/putreserves.html, but here are the essentials:

If you want the library to purchase a book for the coming term, contact your subject specialist now
(that would be me).

If you need a book from the collection put on reserve, tell Jeanne now so she can hold it or recall it.

If you need readings put on electronic reserve, send Jeanne the photocopies now.

Please fill out a separate Reserve Request form for each course. These forms can be submitted electronically or in person and are available at the following links:

Reserve Request form for electronic submission:
http://www.library.drexel.edu/services/reserve_form/reserve_form.html
Printable Reserve Request form:
http://www.library.drexel.edu/services/reserve_form/Rsrvreq.pdf

Jeanne’s contact information:
Jeanne Hamann
Reserve Room Supervisor
Hagerty Library
215-895-6786
jmh59@drexel.edu

Our good friends at Thomson ISI have given us a new “analysis tool”. When you do an author search in Web of Science, you will notice in the box along the right-hand side a new function “Citation Report”. When you select this function you will see plots and a detail report of the publishing and citation history of the author. AND TA DA! it will calculate the H-index of the author (a calculation of the productivity of the author).

Go ahead, I know you’re curious: http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://isi01.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=WOS&Func=Frame

Ahhh, the things we can analyse now…