Engineering & Physics

Basic and Advanced tool for searching U.S. patents and applications.

Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of issued patents and millions of patent applications made available by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from patents issued in the 1790s through those most recently issued in recent months. International patents not included.

Simple searches on bibliographic data in patent documents. The default printing option is page by page only - but they are free. To print an entire patent, follow these instructions: Search for a patent. Click on a title; when the page loads, click on the original document tab. When this page displays, the printer icon is grayed out. Click on Save Full Document at the top of the page. Read the screen and enter the letters shown. The entire document loads now as a pdf and all the pages can be printed.

View frequently asked questions about doing research and using library resources.

Includes useful how-to guides on various topics, including citation guides.

Videos, click-through tutorials, and other resources covering each step of the research process.