Goldfire enables organizations to access and leverage knowledge from inside and outside the organization in order to stimulate out-of-the-box thinking and inform decision-making across the product lifecycle.
Goldfire connects innovation and knowledge workers to email and personal documents, shared drives, enterprise applications, worldwide patent literature, RSS feeds, social media, websites and more - across five languages and hundreds of document types.
Goldfire also provides a wide variety of pre-indexed content to its users. This content is maintained and updated by Invention Machine with new content sources constantly being added.
Below is a list of the pre-indexed content currently available to Goldfire users:
Premium Content Sources. These industry and subject matter content sources are pre-indexed and available to Goldfire users unless specifically noted below:
ASM International, the Materials Information Society, is dedicated to serving the materials science and engineering profession. Through its network of 36,000 members worldwide, ASM provides authoritative information and knowledge on materials and processes, from the structural to the nanoscale. www.asminternational.org
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers’ mission is to facilitate the exchange of technical information and promoting the science and art of engineering in agricultural, food, and biological systems. Industry documents and journal articles published by the society represent over 70,000 pages of technical content. ASABE documents can be purchased separately. www.asabe.org
IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, provides a wide range of quality publications and standards that make the exchange of technical knowledge and information possible among technology professionals. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional society and a leading authority on technology-related matters ranging from aerospace systems, telecommunications and computers, to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics. IEEE publishes 30 percent of the world’s literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, has developed nearly 900 active industry standards. IEEE documents can be purchased separately. www.ieee.org
The International Food Information Service (IFIS) is a leading scientific publisher in food science and related information. IFIS offers information products and services linked to food science, food technology and nutrition. IFIS information covers science and technology, markets and companies, business news, legislation, statistics, patents, trademarks and designs, and consumer trends and issues. www.foodsciencecentral.com
The Institute of Physics
delivers current and historical information covering the entire breadth of physicstopics. The IOP provides access to more than 340,000 research articles from 58 of the world’s leading research institutes, including Journal of Biofabrication, Journal of Geophysics & Engineering, and the Journal of Nanotechnology. IOP also provides: commentary from industry experts and academia; detailed analysis and opinion on current R&D, emerging technologies and commercial applications; and, in-depth interviews with leading authorities. IOP documents can be purchased individually.
www.iop.org
DSpace@MIT is MIT's institutional repository built to save, share, and search MIT's digital research materials. DSpace@MIT contains over 25,000 theses and an increasing number of conference papers, images, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, technical reports, working papers, and more. MIT abstracts and documents are available for free to Goldfire users. http://dspace.mit.edu/
Tech Briefs features exclusive reports of innovations developed by NASA and its industry partners and contractors that can be applied to develop new and improved products and solve engineering or manufacturing problems. Authored by the engineers or scientists who did the work, the briefs span a wide array of fields, including electronics, physical sciences, materials, computer software, mechanics, machinery/automation, manufacturing/fabrication, mathematics/information sciences, and life sciences. NASA Tech Briefs content is free to Goldfire users. www.techbriefs.com
OnePetro.org is a multi-society library, operated by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, which provides access to a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. OnePetro contains more than 85,000 documents. For many of its member organizations, OnePetro is the first online offering of their documents. Participating organizations include: American Petroleum Institute (API), American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA), American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), International Petroleum Conference (IPTC), International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM), Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), NACE International (corrosion engineers), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Petroleum Society of Canada (PETSOC), Pipeline Simulation Interest Group (PSIG), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE), Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), The Society of Underwater Technology (SUT), and the World Petroleum Council (WPC). OnePetro documents can be purchased individually. www.onepetro.org
OSTI is the Department of Energy (DOE) office that collects, preserves, and disseminates DOE-sponsored R&D results that are the outcomes of R&D projects or other funded activities that take place at DOE labs and facilities nationwide and grantees at universities and other institutions. The information is typically in the form of technical documents, conference papers, articles, and software, collectively referred to as scientific and technical information (STI). Managed content sites by OSTI includes: ScienceAccelerator.gov (R&D from DOE resources), Science.gov (U.S. science information from 14 federal agencies), and WorldWideScience.org (global science information from 65 countries and counting). OSTI content is free to Goldfire users. www.osti.gov
PubMed comprises over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. PubMed is developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed abstracts and documents are freely available to Goldfire users. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
SPIE is the International Society for Optics and Photonics founded to advance light-based technologies. The Society promotes emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. SPIE publishes the SPIE Digital Library, containing research papers from the Proceedings of SPIE and the Society's 9 scholarly journals. Goldfire users can subscribe to the SPIE Digital Library or purchase SPIE documents individually. www.spie.org
Springer is a Leading global scientific publisher, delivering quality content through innovative information products and services, as well as a trusted provider of local-language professional publications in Europe, especially in Germany and the Netherlands. Springer offers access to 51,000 books, 1,600 book series, 215 reference works, 26,000 protocols, and over 4.2 million journal articles across more than 2600 different journal publications. Focus areas include: science, technology, medicine, business, transport, and architecture. Focus areas include: science, technology, medicine, business, transport and architecture. Springer content is currently available to Goldfire customers outside North America and requires a separate agreement with Springer to access abstracts and documents. www.springer.com
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Techniques de L’Ingenieur represents the largest collection of scientific and technical literature in French. Each year, the editorial team publishes hundreds of records , the equivalent of thousands of pages PDF, assisted by over 150 external scientific advisors. Topics range from Industrial Computing, Measurement Analysis, Quality and Safety, Embedded Systems, Metrology, Nanotechnology, automation, sensors, and a broad range of analysis techniques. www.techniques-ingenieur.fr
Worldwide Patents. The following patent collections are available:
- U.S. Granted Patents (USPTO): 1971–current
- U.S. Patent Applications (USPTO): 2001–current
- European Granted Patents (EPO): 1981–current
- European Patent Applications (EPO): 1988–current
- WIPO PCT Publications (WIPO): 1978–current
- Japanese Patent Abstracts (JPO): 1976–current
- Japanese Patent Applications: 1993–current
- Japanese Granted Patent: 1994-current
- Great Britain Granted Patents: 1970–current
- Great Britain Patent Applications: 1979–current
- French Granted Patents: 1985–current
- French Patent Applications: 1976–current
- German Granted Patents: 1980–current
- German Patent Applications: 1970–current
- Germany Gebrauchsmusters (Utility Model): 1980–current
Deep Web Articles. This collection provides a pre-indexed subset of over five million documents from Deep Web sites. These sites include scientific and technical information from government, academic, commercial, and professional databases that cannot be accessed by conventional web searches.
Scientific Effects. Use the Invention Machine Scientific Effects tool to browse and search the Invention Machine Scientific Effects database, which includes cross-disciplinary scientific effects, with examples of their practical industry applications. Invention Machine Scientific Effects help to stimulate creative problem solving by enabling you to search and browse over 9,500 illustrated scientific theorems, laws, and phenomena.
Inventive Principles. Use the Inventive Principles tool to browse recommendations for the best approach to resolving contradictory requirements in your system design. Inventive Principles are abstract guidelines that can help you solve problems that arise from contradicting requirements in a system design. Inventive Principles stimulate creative solutions that do not sacrifice performance and do not resort to compromises. Watch the Introductrion to Invention Principles video here.
System Modification Patterns. Use the System Modification Patterns tool to browse recommendations for modifying a system configuration to optimize interactions between system elements or to optimize measurement techniques. Analysis of thousands of patented technologies shows that there are patterns in the way modifications are made that consistently produce a certain kind of improvement—for example, in efficiency, durability, or cost. System Modification Patterns (derived from TRIZ methodology) are based on these observed trends of technology evolution. Watch the Introduction to System Modification Patterns here.