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Professional Publications

The following is a complete list of articles, reviews and other contributions to the Patent Industry which Magister Ltd. has published.

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Publications listing

(all publications by S.R.Adams as sole author unless otherwise noted.)

1. Patents in British Librarianship and Information Work 2001-2005. (Ed. J.H. Bowman). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007 (Chapter 19, pp.299-311). ISBN 978-0-7546-4778-2.
2. Patents in British Librarianship and Information Work 1991-2000. (Ed. J.H. Bowman). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2006 (Chapter 18, pp. 310-325). ISBN 0-7546-4779-X.
3. Information Sources in Patents. (2nd edition) Munich: KG Saur, 2006. ISBN 3-598-24443-6.
4. Electronic non-text material in patent applications - some questions for patent offices, applicants and searchers. World Patent Information 27(2), 99-103, (2005).
5. Patent term, expiries and extensions. BioProcess International 2(6), 26-30 (June 2004).
6. Certification of the patent searching profession - a personal view. World Patent Information 26(1), 79-82, (2004).
7. Networked patent information - a review of developments from paper to web. New Review of Information Networking 9, 81-95, (2003).
8. Information quality, liability, and corrections. Online, 27(5), 16-22, (September/October 2003).
9. Patent information has arrived; the message from the EPIDOS Annual Conference. Online, 27(2), 18-20, (March/April 2003).
10. Patent searching without words - why do it, how to do it? Freepint Newsletter No. 130, 7-8 (6th February 2003). http://www.freepint.com/issues/060203.htm
11. Pharmacia Corp.: analysis of patenting 1998-2002. Expert Opinion in Therapeutic Patents 13(2), 223-231 (2003)
12. A comparison of early publication practices in the United States and Europe. World Patent Information 25(2), 117-122 (2003)
13. Regional patent systems - a challenge for the international searcher. Science & Technology Libraries 22(1-2) 89-99, (2001) - printed 2004.
14. Regional patent systems - a challenge for the international searcher in Patent and Trademark Information - uses and perspectives. (Ed. V.A. Baldwin). pp. 89-99. New York: Haworth Information Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7890-0425-9 (hbk.), 0-7890-0440-2 (pbk.)
15. Patents: exploitation and protection in Staying Legal - a guide to issues and practice affecting the library, information and publishing sectors, 2nd edn. (Eds. C.J. Armstrong; L.W. Bebbington) London: Facet Publishing, 2003 (Chapter 5, pp. 77-97). ISBN 1-85604-438-6.
16. Defensive Publishing: a strategy for maintaining intellectual property as public goods. (co-authored with V. Henson-Apollonio). ISNAR Briefing Paper No. 53. The Hague: International Service for National Agricultural Research. (September 2002). ISSN 1021-2310. Awarded "Publication of the Year" by ISNAR management for 2002.
17. A short examination of the timeliness and accuracy of United Kingdom patent legal status data sources. World Patent Information 24(3), 203-209 (2002)
18. Searching the PCT Patent Files: Another Instance of Faux Full Text. Online, 26(2), 33-36 (March/April 2002).
19. Information sources on post-grant actions to pharmaceutical patents. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 42(3), 467-472, (2002).
20. Translations of European Patents under Article 65 of the European Patent Convention. IP Journal of the Patent and Trademark Depositary Library Association (PTDLA), 1(1/2), 33-38 (June/December 2001).
21. Design searching - the forgotten corner of intellectual property. Online, 25(3), 54-58 (May/June 2001).
22. Using technical databases with minority patent coverage to enhance retrieval. World Patent Information, 23(2), 137-148 (2001).
23. Comparing the IPC and the US classification systems for the patent searcher. World Patent Information, 23(1), 15-23, (2001).
24. Skills for patent searching - a personal view. E-Content, 23(5), 39-43, (October/November 2000).
25. Patent information. (Chapter 11, pp.200-224) in The Business and Economy Internet Resource Handbook (ed. P. Bradley). London: Library Association Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-85604-351-7.
26. Using the International Patent Classification in an online environment. World Patent Information, 22(4), 291-300, (2000).
27. EPIDOS products and services: a user's point of view. in Proc. 9th. EPIDOS Annual Conference, 20-22 October 1999, Halkidiki, Greece, pp.187-209. Vienna: European Patent Office, 2000.
28. The Beilstein Handbook as a source of pre-1960 chemical patent literature. World Patent Information, 21(2), 75-81, (1999).
29. Developments in patents documentation in Europe during the last decade. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 39(3), 423-431, (1999).
30. SmithKline Beecham: analysis of patenting 1995-1998. Expert Opinion in Therapeutic Patents, 9(9), 1173-1183, (1999).
31. American Home Products Corp.: analysis of patenting 1995-1998. Expert Opinion in Therapeutic Patents, 9(4), 447-460, (1999).
32. Pfizer: analysis of patenting 1995-1998. Expert Opinion in Therapeutic Patents, 8(11), 1405-1414, (1998).
33. Survey of patent documentation from the Pacific Rim countries. World Patent Information, 17(1), 48-61, (1995).
34. Use of FSTA in a government department (co-authored with D.D.Singer, H. Lee). in Proc. 2nd. International Food Information Conference, Berlin, May 1987. Reading: IFIS/FSTA., 1988.
35. Examination under the Patents Act 1977 (co-authored with T.S. Eisenschitz). Chartered Institute of Patent Agents' Journal (CIPA Journal), 13(3), 70-86 (Dec. 1983). [corrigenda 13(5), 163 (Feb. 1984)].

+ numerous short contributions to professional newsletter ("Searcher") and trade press ("Information World Review") on patents documentation issues.

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