ACM's Digital Library is a great place to find non-patent prior art. | |
There are lots of great ways to sort and restrict your searches. I can browse by journal, Special Interest Groups, Conferences, Special Collections. | |
Let's try an Advanced Search. Follow the link at the upper left of the page. | |
As you can see we have a lot of great options. I can search by keywords, phrases, publication, year published, conference, and identification codes. | |
Let's try searching for 'touch screen camera focus'. | |
I can only restrict the publishing date of the results by the entire year, nothing more specific. | |
But that's ok because it looks like I got some great results to search through, let's scroll down and check one out... | |
Tapping and Circling selections on pen-based devices: evidence of different performance-shaping factors by Sachi Mizobuchi and Michiaki Yasumura looks really interesting. | |
Here I can get the article's bibliographic information Unfortunately to view the entire article I'll have to buy, rent it, or subscribe to ACM's Digital library. | |
I can scroll down and read the abstract to make sure it's a result I may be interested in purchasing later. | |
ACM's Digital libraries is actually one of the best deals for access to large amounts of non-patent prior art. A year long subscription is less than $200, that's less than $17 dollars a month for complete year of access and downloading from their Digital library. | |
We can also rent the article with DeepDyve, there's a link in the upper right corner. | |
Ok we know the name of the article we're looking for, let's try searching for 'tapping vs. circling pen-based devices'. | |
There it is: the top result. | |
Follow the link... | |
We can read the abstract but to access the entire document we'll have to rent it. | |
Click on the bright green button 'Rent to View Full Text' in the upper right corner. | |
There are different options, but Deepdyve is even a better deal than ACM, but your access will be restricted again after a certain amount of time. Make sure to make the most of it while you do have access to it. |
August 21, 2011
Visual Guide to finding non-patent prior art with ACM's Digital Library
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