Articles
Title | Author | Link | Date | Description |
Research Development and Landscape Artificial Intelligence in Indonesia | Muhammad Alvin Noor Reza, Eki Ahmad Zaki Hamidi, Ririn Herawati, Eueung Mulyana | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9243659 | 03 November 2020 | This study aims to find out the map of the development of Artificial Intelligence Research in Indonesia using Lens.org. |
The next generation discovery citation indexes — a review of the landscape in 2020 (I) | Aaron Tay | https://medium.com/a-academic-librarians-thoughts-on-open-access/the-next-generation-discovery-citation-indexes-a-review-of-the-landscape-a-2020-i-afc7b23ceb32 | 8 October 2020 | |
4 Ways to find review papers, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and other rich sources of references — 2D Search templates, Connected Papers & more. | Aaron Tay | https://medium.com/a-academic-librarians-thoughts-on-open-access/4-ways-to-find-review-papers-systematic-reviews-meta-analysis-and-other-rich-sources-of-82898aebb6e7 | 7 July 2020 | |
Why openly available abstracts are important — overview of the current state of affairs | Aaron Tay, Bianca Kramer, Ludo Waltman | https://medium.com/a-academic-librarians-thoughts-on-open-,,access/why-openly-available-abstracts-are-important-overview-of-the-current-state-of-affairs-bb7bde1ed751 | 30 June 2020 | Discusses about the open availability of abstracts of scientific articles. |
Finding reviews on any topic using Lens.org and 2d search — a new efficient method | Aaron Tay | https://aarontay.medium.com/finding-reviews-on-any-topic-using-lens-org-and-2d-search-a-new-efficient-method-d601e3e07d73 | 4 May 2020 | The article shows a reliable search strategy that can be used in Lens.org to find meta-analysis, systematic reviews, review articles of topics of interest regardless of discipline to help research. |
Landscape of coronavirus research across three decades | Anisah Alyahya | https://towardsdatascience.com/landscape-of-coronavirus-research-across-three-decades-9cf338968e18 | 3 April 2020 | |
Using Lens.org to kick start your literature review — a search strategy for finding review papers, systematic reviews and meta-analysis | Aaron Tay | https://aarontay.medium.com/using-lens-org-c7ef5553fc27 | 1 March 2020 | Shows a reliable search strategy in Lens.org to find meta-analysis, systematic reviews, review articles of topics of interest with a comparison against Pubmed. |
The rise of the “open” discovery indexes? Lens.org, Semantic Scholar and Scinapse | Aaron Tay | http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-rise-of-open-discovery-indexes.html | 23 December 2019 | |
Patent Applications for Electronic Publishing Market (2014–2018). Selected Issues | Adam Jachimczyk (University of Warsaw) | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338799370_Patent_Applications_for_Electronic_Publishing_Market_2014-2018_Selected_Issues | December 2019 | The article analyses patent applications for inventions in the area of electronic publishing based on the data from Lens.org from years 2014–2018. |
7 reasons why you should try Lens.org (updated to version Release 5.16.0 — March 2019) | Aaron Tay | https://aarontay.medium.com/6-reasons-why-you-should-try-lens-org-c40abb09ec6f | 28 December 2018 | Highlights the main features of the Lens over other scholarly search tools. |
Cashing the cheque of open access or Machine learning and Scholarly tools — Meta, Scite, Paper Digest and more | Aaron Tay | https://medium.com/a-academic-librarians-thoughts-on-open-access/cashing-the-cheque-of-open-access-or-machine-learning-and-scholarly-tools-meta-scite-paper-ba176508daca | 26 December 2018 | |
Sharpening insights into the innovation landscape with a new approach to patents | Microsoft Academic | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/academic/articles/sharpening-insights-into-the-innovation-landscape-with-a-new-approach-to-patents/ | 6 August 2018 | Starting now, MAG will provide improved patent coverage thanks to a partnership with domain expert Lens.org. |
Mapping the global influence of published research on industry and innovation | Osmat A jefferson, Adam Jaffe, Doug Ashton, Ben Warren, Deniz Koellhofer, Uwe Dulleck, Aaron Ballagh, John Moe, Michael DiCuccio, Karl Ward, Geoff Bilder, Kevin Dolby, Richard A Jefferson | https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4049 | 10 January 2018 | Measuring citations to scholarly works in the global patent literature enables assessment of the influence of published research on invention, industry and enterprise, at the individual and institutional level. |
Comment: Turning science into social outcomes | Richard Jefferson | https://www.nature.com/articles/548S8a | 10 August 2017 | For innovation to bring public benefit, mapping the influence of academic paper is just the beginning. |
Charting influence | Nature | https://www.nature.com/articles/548S6a | 10 August 2017 | One indicator of the connection between science and technology worth considering, but often overlooked, are the references in patents to literature. |
Transparency tools in gene patenting for informing policy and practice | Osmat A Jefferson, Deniz Köllhofer, Thomas H Ehrich, Richard A Jefferson | https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.2755 | 1 December 2013 | The Supreme Court’s decision in Myriad highlights the need for tools enabling nuanced and precise analysis of gene patents at the global level. |
Citationchaser: A tool for transparent and efficient forward and backward citation chasing in systematic searching | Neal R. Haddaway, Matthew J. Grainger, Charles T. Gray | https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1563 | 26 April 2022 | Systematic searching aims to find all possibly relevant research from multiple sources, the basis for an unbiased and comprehensive evidence base. Along with bibliographic databases, systematic reviewers use a variety of additional methods to minimise procedural bias. |
Blogs
Title | Author | Link | Date | Description |
Testing Replacements for Microsoft Academic Graph | Michael Weishuhn | https://blog.inciteful.xyz/posts/testing-mag-replacements/ | 11 October 2021 | The bulk of the test is done by randomly selecting 100,000 papers from the MAG corpus, querying each of the services, and comparing the results. |
OA week 2020] – Creating a free and beautiful auto-updating dashboard for tracking Open Access rates for your institution using Lens.org | Aaron Tay | https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2020/10/oa-week-2020-creating-free-and.html | 21 October 2020 | Provides insight on how to quickly and simply create a nice dashboard for tracking institution’s OA rate using Lens.org. |
Open Access Indicators and the importance of optimising your Institutional repository for discovery in Unpaywall | Aaron Tay | https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2020/08/open-access-indicators-and-importance.html | 5 August 2020 | Talks about how Unpaywall rose to become one of the most important sources of truth for determining the OA status of outputs |
The rise of the “open” discovery indexes? Lens.org, Semantic Scholar and Scinapse | Aaron Tay | https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-rise-of-open-discovery-indexes.html | 23 December 2019 | Brief review of four academic search engines – Microsoft Academic, Lens.org, Semantic Scholar and Scinapse, which uses MAG among other sources. |
Free Patent Search Database ‘The Lens’ | Intepat Team | https://www.intepat.com/blog/patent/patent-search-the-lens/ | 9 June 2019 | |
Lens.org – detailed review of a new open discovery and citation index | Aaron Tay | http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2018/11/lensorg-detailed-review-of-new-open.html | 18 November 2018 | |
Accessing Patent Data with the Lens | www.pauloldham.net | Accessing Patent Data with the Lens – Paul Oldham’s Analytics Blog | 26 July 2015 | This article provides a brief introduction to The Lens patent database as a free source of data for patent analytics. |
LibGuides
Title | Author | Link | Date | Description |
Patent information: Finding patents | KAUST Library | https://library.kaust.edu.sa/c.php?g=248715&p=1656785 | 23 Feb 2022 | |
Databases for Engineers | University Of Birmingham | https://libguides.bham.ac.uk/c.php?g=253038&p=4195487 | 11 Jan 2022 | |
Freely available research resources | University of Minnesota | https://libguides.umn.edu/free-public-resources | 15 December 2021 | |
Databases for Finding Patents – Patents and Intellectual Property | The University of Chicago | https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=297338&p=1984817 | 9 November 2021 | |
Find Full-Text Patents | Furman University | https://libguides.furman.edu/chemistry/patents | 4 November 2021 | |
Transition from Web of Science | University of Arizona | https://libguides.library.arizona.edu/wos/tools | 6 September 2021 | |
Using the Lens Database for Staff Publications | Journal of Medical Library Association | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7069820/ | 1 April 2020 | |
Patent Databases Research Guide | Seton Hall University | https://library.shu.edu/c.php?g=718339&p=5115919 | ||
Patents: A How-To-Find Guide | IOWA State University | https://instr.iastate.libguides.com/patents/search | ||
Engineering Library: Electronic resources | University of Cambridge | https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/engineering/electronic-resources | ||
Patent Search Strategy | Purdue University | http://sites.lib.purdue.edu/guides/tutorial/patent-search-strategy | Step-by-step guide to searching for patents in The Lens. | |
Patent Research: Patents | Campbell University | https://guides.lib.campbell.edu/patents | ||
Standards and Patents | Macquarie University | https://libguides.mq.edu.au/lab_safety_virtual_library/standardsandpatents | ||
Research Metrics, Impact and Engagement: Patents | Charles Stuart University | https://libguides.csu.edu.au/c.php?g=753967&p=6831462 | ||
Patents: FAQs and Materials to Read | National University of Singapore | https://libguides.nus.edu.sg/patents/faqs-mats | ||
Standards and Patents: Finding Patents | The University of Sydney | https://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/c.php?g=508185&p=3475883 | 12 October 2021 | |
Patents: Where to Search | MIT Libraries | https://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=176184&p=1159379 |
External Coverage
Title | Author | Link | Date | Description |
The Lens: Open for Outcomes | SPARC | https://sparcopen.org/impact-story/the-lens-open-for-outcomes/ | ||
Lens PatSeq: An open facility for biotech and patent professionals | Osmat A. Jefferson | https://www.aipla.org/docs/default-source/committee-documents/bcp-files/2020/uspto-september-20200917.pdf?sfvrsn=d440f252_0 | 17 September 2020 | |
Scholarly Search Engine Comparision | Jeroen Bosman | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZiCUuKNse8dwHRFAyhFsZsl6kG0Fkgaj5gttdwdVZEM/ | 12 December 2019 | A comparison conducted by Jeroen Bosman displays information on scholarly (relevant) search engines. |
CovidGraph – a COVID-19 Knowledge Graph | HealthECCO | https://healthecco.org/covidgraph/ | Integrates data from the Lens and link them in the knowledge graph. | |
EIFL webinar: The Lens open knowledge and discovery platform | Mark Garlinghouse, Business Development, the Lens | https://eifl.net/resources/eifl-webinar-lens-open-knowledge-and-discovery-platform | May 2021 | This EIFL webinar is about the Lens, a discovery platform that provides discovery, analytics and research management tools that are free to use. |
Lens ID (P7100) | Wikidata | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7100 | ||
The Lens | Event Data | https://www.eventdata.crossref.org/guide/sources/cambia-lens/ | ||
Lens.org – Patents | WIPO | https://inspire.wipo.int/lensorg-patents | ||
Patent Research and Analysis The Lens | Ellen Krabbe, Steve Sampson, Greg Schodde | https://ipo.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019-10-IPO-Patent-Searching-The-Lens.pdf | 2019 | |
Lens.org | Patentinformatics (ml4patents.com) | https://www.ml4patents.com/vendors/lens-org | ||
Lens Lab update, June 2020 | Innovation Information Initiative | https://iii.pubpub.org/pub/lens-lab-update/release/4 | 30 May 2020 | |
Lens.org – I³ Open Innovation Dataset Index | I³ | https://iiindex.org/datasets/lens |