An Open Access License gives you the freedom to access Derwent World Patents Index® and Derwent World Patents Index First ViewSM without worrying about online costs. You simply pay a set fee per year covering all connect hour, online display, offline print, and Alert (SDI) charges.
With an Open Access License, you get constant access to the most up-to-date business and technical information from patents and can conduct more in-depth patent searches. You can spend longer looking for information that will help you to:
- Monitor competitors
- Discover lucrative business opportunities
- Avoid patent infringement
- Accelerate your R&D pipeline
Share key patent data
Open Access Licenses cover all operating business units or sites as specified by you. You can set up new accounts and User IDs to provide access to Thomson Scientific data to anyone who needs it within your organization.
This means you can always have the most up-to-date Thomson Scientific data available and accessible to everyone in your organization. And you can easily introduce new users at a fixed cost.
Save time and resources
Another important feature of Open Access Licenses is that you are able to set up unlimited numbers of Alerts (also known as SDIs or profiles). When new records appear in Derwent World Patents Index that match your search criteria, you are informed via an Alert in the format of your choice. This saves you valuable time and resources, by providing a cost-effective method of delivering current awareness throughout your organization.
Plan your research
Open Access Licenses are as flexible as you need them to be and allow your organization to take a long-term view and plan your research. With an Open Access License you can:
- Have all connect hour, Alert (SDI) charge, print and display charges covered
- Avoid the additional print charges arising from greater numbers of search results associated with increasing patent volumes
- Benefit from a budgetable purchase-guaranteeing that you will not run out of budget towards the end of your financial year
- Define the number of users in your organization
- Achieve better quality search results as you can reiterate and expand your search while online
- Set up an unlimited numbers of Alerts (SDIs) allowing a cost-effective current awareness service to be rolled out company-wide
- Introduce new users in your organization to patent data
- Increase the use of electronic data dissemination throughout your organization
Fees
The fee for an Open Access Licence is based on your organization's historic usage of Thomson Scientific data online.
