The Lens serves global patent and scholarly knowledge as a public good to inform science and technology-enabled problem solving.
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With us, everyone gets the best and most current data we have at no cost. We don't do 'Freemium', everybody can use Lens for free… More
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No Charge
With us, everyone gets the best we have at no cost. We don't do 'Freemium'. Everybody uses Lens for free. We think the ability for anyone to create new value should not be constrained by access to critical knowledge.
No Constraints
Our data is open, global and can be accessed, used and shared by anyone. We don't discriminate by who you are or where you are; we aspire to help problem solvers in any jurisdiction and any language.
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Privacy matters...your Lens use is your business and yours alone. We don't share or sell any knowledge of your use of The Lens. We don't use Google Analytics or other cloud based click-trackers to 'optimize' your experience. We don't keep track of what you do (unless you ask us to). We don't advertise or let others advertise on Lens. We avoid any third party software that could expose your use to others.
Open No Constraints
Our data is open and global and can be accessed, used and shared by anyone. We don't discriminate by who you are or where you are… More
SecureNo Snooping
Privacy matters...your Lens use is your business and yours alone. We don't share or sell any knowledge of your use, we don't keep track… More
News: Detailed review of a new open discovery and citation index
A detailed review of Lens by Library Analytics Manager, Aaron Tay from Singapore Management University. November 18, 2018
We love hearing feedback about Lens. We are happy to present a detailed review of Lens (version 5.12) by Library Analytics Manager, Aaron Tay from Singapore Management University....
Patent Search & Analysis
The Lens hosts more than 100 million patent records from over 95 different jurisdictions. Our patent searching capability allows use of advanced boolean functions, structured search, biological search, and classification search options to find the most relevant and important patent. Our analysis functions and faceted exploration tools allow drilling down and discovery of new insights, and sharing or embedding these in any website. Learn More
Scholarly Search & Analysis
The Lens hosts a rapidly growing corpus of scholarship - more than 188 million scholarly articles, books, theses, and conference proceedings - across various disciplines and from multiple sources. Discover relationships between scholarly works and the global patent literature and how patent information adds to and complements scholarship, or shapes or constrains its use. With facets you can explore the scholarly literature, and with graphical analysis better understand it. Learn More
PatCite: Linking Patents and Scholarship
Discover which scholarly articles have influenced what patents and who is using scholarly work to build products and services. Dynamic and interrogable, these maps allow you to identify and visualise important linkages and explore networks of collaborations. The granularity allows insights into how science and scholarship are shaping patented inventions and influencing economic activity; it can lead to better partnerships and clearer pathways to delivering outcomes of value. Learn More
In4M: Ranking Institutional Influence
The Lens extracted and identified millions of scholarly articles cited in the global patent literature, in collaboration with PubMed and CrossRef. Using this linkage, new tools and metrics were developed called International Innovation and Industry Influence Mapping - In4M. allowing one to explore and rank the degree to which research institutions influence enterprise. 200 Global Research institutions and 50 Australian research institutions were compared and ranked as part of the Nature Index in August 2017 and described in detail in Nature Biotechnology in January 2018. Learn More
Collections
Create, annotate, share and promote collections comprising your patent and scholarship portfolio. Create and explore collections of documents to understand who does what, when and where, and to inform decision-making.. Markup, annotate or embed your collections, create workbooks to organise your data and share your collections with others, or keep them confidential in your account. Learn More
PatSeq: Exploring Biological Sequences in patents
The Lens’ unique open facility allows you to search, analyse and share the biological sequences disclosed in patents. This is the world’s largest publicly available database with internal transparency metrics. Choose among the 5 apps available to you to search and analyse the DNA, RNA and protein sequences found in patents and how these can inform innovation or shape strategies for research or product development. Learn More