Paul Robeson Library

The library has access to several new databases that may prove useful for your research:

The PATFT database includes full text U.S. patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from 1790 to the present.

Patents from January 1976 to the present offer the full searchable text, including all bibliographic data, such as the inventor’s name, the patent’s title, and the assignee’s name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims. The display of each patent’s full-text includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent.

Patents from 1790 to December 1975 offer only the patent number, issue date, and current US patent classification in the text display, and can be searched only within those fields. However, this limited text display also includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of all pages of the patent.

Book Review Index Plus — Provides citations to more than five million book reviews, drawn from a core of about 700 magazines and journals (including both popular and scholarly titles), supplemented by hundreds of other magazines on an apparently more occasional basis. More than 600,000 of the citations also include the full text of the reviews. Searching is possible by author or title of the book under review, or by the journal in which the review appeared. Advanced Search allows combining author, title, and journal, and also permits searching by reviewer, illustrator, publisher, and additional limiting by length of review, refereed journals only, date, and full-text reviews. Citations can be marked for printing or e-mailing. Also includes reviews of audio books, e-books, and periodicals.

Abstracts in Anthropology covers a broad spectrum of current anthropological topics from a vast number of periodicals. Publishing approximately 3,000 abstracts per volume, selected and classified, fully indexed by author and subject, it provides a thorough coverage of anthropological scholarship in all its subfields.