An annotated collection of resources for patent users, including patent office websites, patent databases, and guides to understanding the patent literature.

Chemistry 184/284 is a ten-week, two-credit course taught at the University of California - Santa Barbara. It covers the techniques and tools for effective searching the literature of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering and related fields. Students will be introduced to how information is organized in the chemical sciences, including data collections such as Reaxys and indexes to the literature such as SciFinder, as well as the different types of primary literature and other resources useful to the chemical researcher.