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- Title
Collecting and Describing University-Generated Patents in an Institutional Repository: A Case Study from Rice University.
- Authors
Carlson, Scott; Spiro, Linda
- Abstract
Providing an easy method of browsing a university's patent output can free up valuable research time for faculty, students, and external researchers. This is especially true for Rice University's Fondren Library, a USPTO-designated Patent and Trademark Resource Center that serves an academic community widely recognized for cutting edge science and engineering research. In order to make Rice-generated patents easier to find in the university's community, a team of technical and public services librarians from Fondren Library devised a method to identify, download, and upload patents to the university's institutional repository, starting with a backlog of over 300. This article discusses the rationale behind the project, its potential benefits, and challenges as new Rice-generated patents are added to the repository on a monthly basis.
- Subjects
INSTITUTIONAL repositories; COLLECTIVES; PATENTS; RICE University; UNIVERSITY faculty
- Publication
Code4Lib Journal, 2015, Issue 30, p2
- ISSN
1940-5758
- Publication type
Article