Biology: Patents and Technical Reports

A free patent search tool, including 80 million patent documents from the European Patent Office, the USPTO, and other countries worldwide, searchable by full text.

A patent search database including records from patent offices worldwide. It also allows searching of gene sequences.

The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) helps federal agencies make better decisions about data, with data. We provide the support and structure that helps our partners securely store, analyze, sort, and aggregate data in new ways. We use our private-sector partners’ knowledge to create new ways of using data to solve problems. Our Joint Venture program works side-by-side with universities, nonprofits and industry professionals — together, they can experiment with data science technologies before they’re available in the marketplace.

Science.gov is a search engine providing access to millions of pages of scientific information provided by federal agencies.

Search publicly available research documents, including technical reports, from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

Use the TRAIL search tool to find and access digital versions of U.S. technical reports published prior to 1975.

ISO: International Organization for Standardization
Search and purchase technical reports and standards from the international standards body.

This physical science and technology laboratory is a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce and publishes standards and technical reports.