Library Guides: Standards and Patents: Home

Introduction

Technical standards are established norms or requirements with regard to technical systems. A patent confers upon its holder, for a limited period, the right to exclude others from exploiting (making, using, selling, importing) the patented invention, except with the consent of the patent owner.

Key databases for standards and patents

British Standards Online
British Standards Online (BSOL) British Standards Online British (BS) and some International (ISO) Standards. Search by standard number or by keywords. Withdrawn standards are clearly marked.
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore provides access to content from IEEE as well as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). It contains full text of almost one-third of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computer science, including highly-cited peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and standards and some archive material from the 1880s.

SCOPUS
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It covers international research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and
humanities and has smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research.