Search scholarly articles, conference proceedings, patents and more. Includes citation linking, data analysis, and visualization tools.
From The University of Arizona Libraries:
The Lens is an open global cyberinfrastructure that aims to make the innovation system more efficient, fair, transparent, and inclusive. It combines both global patent and scholarly knowledge into a public resource. Lens serves over 200 million scholarly records, compiled and harmonized from Microsoft Academic, PubMed and Crossref, enhanced with UnPaywall open access information, CORE full text, and links to ORCID. All Lens data is fully open, shareable, and reusable.
Lens.org offers robust discovery, analytics and management tools, including APIs for scholarly works, patents, and patent sequence data, Users can create their own accounts, enabling them to search, analyze, and receive updates within a private and secure online platform. Users can create/save queries, create collections, customize data analysis and visualizations, create interactive reports, and download up to 50,000 records at a time. Applications within Lens.org include:
- PatCite – enables discovering linkages between patents and scholarship
- In4M – maps and shows how scholars and their institutions have influenced other research and societal outcomes
- Collections – allows users to create, publish, and share curated collections of patents and scholarly works
- PatSeq – allows exploration and analysis of biological sequences in patents
Lens.org is a project of Cambia, an independent non-profit based in Australia.
Learn more About the Lens or watch the Lens Overview video.
