Find Reports and Standards

Finding Standards, JPL Reports, Nasa Reports and Patents

Finding Standards

The JPL Library offers IEEE standards via IEEE Explore.

The Enterprise Process and Standards Program, Office 501 provides an electronic library of standards. Call the Standards Library at x4-8242 or visit their web site at http://standards.jpl.nasa.gov. They can also order standards for you.

The JPL Standards program and the NASA Technical Standards Program Office offers a full-text Technical Standards System. This system provides NASA and its supporting contractor engineers and managers with web access to full-text technical standards products from 108 standards developing organizations (national and international), including DOD and NASA, and related standards information. Anyone within the "nasa.gov" domain can register and access the System at the NASA Technical Standards Program website: http://standards.nasa.gov.

JPL Reports

JPL reports are available from several different sources. JPL employees may contact Engineering Document Services, x4-6222, or Library Reference, x4-4200, for assistance in searching for documents. Members of the public may contact Library Reference , 818-354-4200.

Electronic Full-Text Resources

• JPL Docushare Libraries

Many recent JPL project documents are available on Docushare to authorized JPL employees. Some libraries require ID and password.

• JPL Technical Reports Server http://trs.jpl.nasa.gov.

The JPL TRS provides the full-text of externally-published articles and presentations.

• Interplanetary Network Progress Report http://tmo.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report/.

The IPN Progress Report, published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, reports principally on activities of the Telecommunications and Mission Operations Directorate (TMOD) in planning, research, technology development, implementation, and operations in the areas of data services, mission services, radio science, ground-based radio and radar astronomy, and TMOD-managed flight projects.

• Electronic Document Information Management System (EDIMS)http://edims.jpl.nasa.gov/.

EDIMS is a web-based database of the Engineering Document Services document collection. The collection contains internal documents containing a D-number and project number such as program and project documents, as well as external documents such as publications, newsletters, and quarterly reports. Documents included in the collection range from the 1950’s to present.

Obtaining Copies of JPL Documents

Electronic or paper copies of JPL reports may be obtained from the following sources:

NASA Reports

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) issues reports dealing with aeronautics and space, and with topics related to earth sciences, energy, and the environment. The most comprehensive index to NASA reports is the Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR). Issues of STAR are available on the Web from January 1996-.

NASA also provides an additional way of accessing technical reports through its NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS). This site allows you to search in one place information about technical reports published by a number of NASA Research and Space Centers. The full-text of a few of the reports are also available at this site. This site also includes the CASI Technical Report Server. From there you can search the citations from STAR for technical reports as well as citations to journal articles and conference proceedings from 1962 to the present.

• go to NASA homepage (http://www.nasa.gov)
• go to STAR (http://www.sti.nasa.gov/Pubs/star/Star.html)
• go to Aerospace Medicine and Biology (http://www.sti.nasa.gov/Pubs/Aeromed/Aeromed.html)
• go to Aerospace Medicine and Engineering (http://www.sti.nasa.gov/Pubs/Aeroeng/Aeroeng.html)
• go to NTRS (http://ntrs.nasa.gov/)

Finding Patents

USPTO Web Patent Databases The US Patent and Trademark Office has recently updated its patent database, adding access to the full text of all US patent applications since March 15, 2001. This is in addition to the full text of all patents issued since 1976.

esp@cenet is a free service on the internet provided by the European Patent Organisation through the EPO and the national offices of its members states. Using esp@cenet via one of the national office websites, it is possible to search all the patent applications published in the past two years (or more in some cases) by any national office in the European Patent Organisation. esp@cenet can also be used to find English-language abstracts of documents in the European Patent Office's in-house databases of patents from throughout the world. A large proportion of the data goes back to 1970.

The Delphion Intellectual Property Network (IPN) is a web site for searching, viewing, and analyzing patent documents. The site indexes US patents, European application and granted patents, and abstracts of Japanese patents. Recently (2001) Delphion has started to require registration for access to many features of this site.

Ordering Patents : If you need to acquire a patent that you cannot find online, please go to the Ordering Documents page.