The Mathematical Sciences &Patent and Trademark

ResourcesHow to be a Fluent Generalist

John J MeierScience Librarian

Penn State University

Overview

• The Mathematical Sciences– Math Resources– Mathematical Statistics Resources– Related and Multidiciplinary Fields

• Patents and Trademarks– In the Library– For the University and Community– Resources

The Mathematical Sciences

• Foundation to other scientific disciplines

• Pure vs Applied Mathematics

• Mathematical Subject Classification (MSC)

Math Resources

• MathSciNet• Zentralblatt MATH• Web of Science/Scopus• Arxiv.org• Professional Societies– American Mathematical

Society (AMS)– Society of Industrial and

Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Mathematical Statistics Resources

• Also use MathSciNet, Web of Science, Scopus, Arxiv.org

• Current Index to Statistics (CIS)• PubMed• Professional Societies– American Statistical Association

(ASA)– International Statistical Institute

(ISI)

Related and Multidisciplinary Fields

• Mathematical Physics• Astronomical Statistics• Engineering• Information Technology• ETC

Bottom Line: Interdisciplinary subject where Generalists like librarians can be key

Patents and Trademarks

• Intellectual Property information• Government Documents• Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries

Patents and Trademarks in the Library

• Record of Patents and Trademarks– Print or Microfilm or CD or

DVD• Books on Patents and

Trademarks– Business, Science, Searching,

Inventor resources• Legal Information– Case law defines much of the

interpretation of patent and trademark statutes

Patents and Trademarks for the University and the Community

• Inventors– Students– Graduate Students,

Faculty and Research Staff– Community Residents

• Researchers– Science and Engineering– History– Genealogy

Patent and Trademark Resources

• US Patent and Trademark Office– Limited online Searching– US Classification Searching– Resources for Businesses and Inventors

• European Patent Office (espacenet.net)– Worldwide Patent Information

• Google Patents– Full text searching of OCR patents, download PDFs

Bibliography

• The Mathematical Sciences“A Guide to Library Service in Mathematics: The Non-trivial

Mathematics Librarian” by Anderson and Pausch“Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics”

by Tucker and Anderson“Magazines for Libraries” Mathematics Chapter by Meier

• Patents and TrademarksUS Patent and Trademark Indexes and GazettesBooks by NOLO Press“Intellectual property : everything the digital-age librarian

needs to know” by Wherry

Webliography

• The Mathematical SciencesMathSciNet http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/ Zentralblatt http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/ Clickable Map of Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/index/mathmap.html

• Patents and TrademarksUS Patent and Trademark Office http://www.uspto.govEuropean Patent Office http://www.espacenet.com/index.en.htm

Google Patents http://www.google.com/patents Penn State Patent Search Tutorialhttp://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/pams/patent.html

Questions and Discussion

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