Standards and patents

Derwent Innovations Index

Contains around 14 million patents on chemistry, electronics, electrical engineering and engineering from over 50 patent offices.

Espacenet 
^{(full-text database)}

Database of the European Patent Office, contains information on patent applications (original documents including images) from over 72 countries and regions.

IEEE Xplore Digital Library 
^{(full-text database)}

Literature (journals, conference reports, standards) from the beginnings to the present day in electronics, electrical engineering and computer science. Also included: IBM Journal of Research and Development, the NESC (National Electrical Safety Code) and the IEEE Standards Dictionary.

Scopus

Around 1.4 billion books, articles, conferences and patents on technology, natural sciences, medicine, humanities and social sciences.

SNV-Connect 
^{(full-text database)}

Successor solution to the e-NORM standards database. In addition to references, it also contains the full texts of approx. 50,000 standards from SWISSMEM, Electrosuisse, INB Interdisciplinary Standards Division (SNV), SIA and all ISO standards. These standards can be saved as PDF files and printed out. The database is accessible to FHNW members via SWITCH edu-ID.