Electrical and computer engineering

Standards available through the McGill Library

• IEEE standards
  Full text of IEEE active standards

• ASTM standards (Annual Book of American Society for Testing and Materials Standards)
  Current edition available is 2021. Search ASTM standards online to determine in which volume a specific standard is located and then retrieve the full text in the McLennan Library's Reference section, call # TA401 A653.
  Find out more information on standards and other standards that you can access.
• The standards guide created by Schulich Library
  Find out other standard sources that you can access as a McGill member.

Standards learning resources

• Standards are everywhere: An introduction to standards
  Four-module learning tutorials to improve your knowledge of technical standards. You will learn what are standards, why and how they are created, and how to discover and access a standard.

Patents

• Derwent Innovations Index
  Patent database on the Web of Science platform allowing searching by topic, inventor, assignee, title, International Patent Classification code, and Derwent Class code
• USPTO Patent Search
  United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)'s patent database for granted patents and patent applications
• CIPO Patent Search
  Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)' patent database providing granted patents and patent applications
• WIPO Patent Search
  World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)'s patent database providing international and national patent documents
• Espacenet Patent Search
  European Patent Office (EPO)'s patent database providing patent documents worldwide, including Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Search.
• The Patents Guide created by Schulich Librarians
  Learn more about patents, including how to search for them in both licensed databases and open accessible databases provided by patent offices.

Technical reports

• Technical Reports@CS
  Technical reports from students in McGill's School of Computer Science.
• The Technical Reports Guide created by Schulich Librarians
  Learn what technical reports are, where to find references to technical reports, and how to retrieve the full text.