The University Libraries at Penn State maintains a Web site on patent information which should be checked for evaluated patent information. An increasing number of publishers are putting their publications catalogs, order forms, and in some cases, partial texts on the Web. In addition to the publishers listed below, check society homepages for their publications lists. Most societies have Web sites. Some of the major societies in engineering are listed below.
Some sites are full text, others have indexes and ordering information.
Several sites include excellent lists of standards Web sites. In addition, there are a number of commercial companies that have web pages to make location and ordering of standards easier. There are a number of sites available to locate technical reports. In addition, a number of sites are available that provide indexes to reports, or the full text report. More reports are listed on the Electronic Reference Page.