Although NPL is similar to the rest of the Analytics platform, there are a few subtle differences between them. In this article, I will explain exactly how you would go about using NPL.
When you reach the NPL home page, which can be found by clicking on the "Literature" tab, you will be able to search within a number of fields.
The different fields that you can use to search on NPL are:
- All fields: This will search within all available fields for what was inputted.
- Title: This will search within titles for what was inputted.
- Abstract: This will search within abstracts for what was inputted.
- Author: This will search within author names for what was inputted.
- Title or abstract: This will search within both abstracts and titles for what was inputted.
- Journal: This will search within journal names for what was inputted.
To perform your search, click on the "Search" button and you will be taken to the search results page.
On the top-left of the screen, you can use the "AND" and "NOT" functions to refine your results further using keywords.
Below this, you can also refine your results using various filters.
- Publication Date: This will enable you to only see papers in your search results that were published in a chosen range of years.
- Journal: This will enable you to only see papers in your search results that came from particular journals.
- Institution: This will enable you to see papers in your search results that came from a particular institution.
- Author(s): This will enable you to only see papers in your search results that were written by certain authors.
- Citations: This will enable you to see papers that only have a specific amount of citations.
- Topic: This will enable you to see papers that match a specific Topic.
- Doc Type: This will enable you to only see papers in your search results of a particular type.
- Text Availability: This will enable you to see only the results that have a PDF available.
- Location: This will enable you to see papers that originated from a specific country or region.
Above the search results are also a number of options that enable you to change how you view them.
The first option option allows you to display your results using either the abstract view or the table view. The second option allows you to sort your results to see them in a particular order. The third option allows you to change the translation settings.
If you then click on one of the articles in your search results you will then come to a page similar to the one given in the image below.
From the "Abstract" tab, you are able to see bibliographic data for the article, as well as this, you can view the abstract of the article. On the right-hand side of this screen, you are able to go through each of the articles in turn where the blue dot next to them will disappear if you have already viewed that particular article. Finally, you are able to download the PDF for the article by clicking on "Download PDF".
Next is "References", which will show you a list of articles referenced by the one you are viewing. You can click on the links to be brought to those separate documents.
When you click on the "Citation" tab, you will be shown both Patent and Non-Patent citations of this article. Again, you can click on the links to be brought to those separate documents.
Finally, we have "Similar Literature", which works the same way as the Related Literature feature does for a patent. The only exception is that it's comparing scientific articles with articles rather than patents with articles.
