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Patently Obvious: The Place for Patents in Information Literacy in the Sciences
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MacMillan, Don – Research Strategies, 2005
Patents are an underutilized source of scientific information, particularly in the life and health sciences. Patents and patent applications usually contain the first disclosure of new technologies and processes and serve to link theory with practice, providing "real world" examples of the application of scientific research. Increasingly,…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Sciences, Biochemistry, Library Instruction