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Covid-19 patent landscape confusion is a big concern for life sciences organisations
New data is beginning to shed light on covid-19-related IP filings, but major patent landscape uncertainties pose dangers for research... Read More

The Lens awarded $2M USD to strengthen institutional innovation capabilities
Press Release - Tuesday, 2nd March 2021 Cambia today announced a $2M USD grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates... Read More

SPIE announces partnership with global open-knowledge platform The Lens
In a publishing-partnership first, The Lens' unique open data will be fully integrated into the SPIE Digital Library platform BELLINGHAM,... Read More

The Lens: Open for Outcomes
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) recently featured The Lens as part of a series of impact stories... Read More

Landscape of coronavirus research across three decades
In a recent Medium post, Dr Anisah Alyahya uses the Lens to conduct literature searches and create term maps to... Read More

Using the Lens database for staff publications
In a rapidly changing landscape, many health sciences libraries are looking to increase the support they provide for research in... Read More

Using Lens.org to kick start your literature review – a search strategy for finding review papers, systematic reviews and meta-analysis
In his latest blog post, Aaron Tay provides an exploration of the tools, techniques and strategies for conducting your literature... Read More

Scholarly search engine comparison
A recent comparison of scholarly search engines conducted by Jeroen Bosman, a thought leader in open science and librarian at... Read More

The rise of the “open” discovery indexes? Lens.org, Semantic Scholar and Scinapse
In his latest blog post, Aaron Tay provides an insightful and thoughtful piece on the emergence of open scholarly discovery... Read More

The Lens MetaRecord and LensID: An open identifier system for aggregated metadata and versioning of knowledge artefacts
Abstract Ambiguity is inherent in the digital records of entities such as patents, scholarly works, human names, or institutions. While... Read More

Apple After Jony Ive: Aligning Hardware and Software Design in an Innovation Network
Kenedict Innovation Analytics provides new ways to analyse, visualise and measure innovation-related data and facilitates fact-based decision-making with regard to... Read More

How to Handle Data Exported from The Lens in CiteSpace
CiteSpace is a widely used and freely available tool for visually exploring and analyzing trends and patterns in scientific literature.... Read More

Highlighting some new visualization functions in Lens 6.2.0 — Three use cases for Lens.org
I have become quite a fan of the free Lens.org since last year , writing pieces like - 7 reasons... Read More

Coverage of 24 Russian Journals in Scopus, CrossRef, and the Lens
Every time I am reading a press realease from the Lens, a search engine for the patents and scholarly publicatons,... Read More

Untangling the State of the Art in Artificial Intelligence by Applying Text Mining and Network Analysis
Artificial intelligence is being applied in a wide variety of areas and has generated a lot of attention over the... Read More

Introducing the new Lens Scholarly Analysis
With the integration of scholarly works from PubMed, CrossRef and Microsoft Academic into the Lens, we have been working hard... Read More

6 reasons why you should try Lens.org
Lens is in my book one of the most interesting Scholarly discovery/ citation index tools to have emerged in 2018.... Read More

Looking through the LENS
The introductory video and use cases are interesting from an ideological standpoint (which I broadly support but won't comment on here). Note also members... Read More

Academic metasearch engine The Lens: solving the problem of solving problems
The Lens is an academic search engine that gathers patents and academic documents , such as articles, communications, books and... Read More

Detailed review of a new open discovery and citation index
We love hearing feedback about Lens. We're happy to present a detailed review of Lens (version 5.12) by Library Analytics... Read More

Unpaywall SciELO 20 Anos presentation
A quick discussion about Unpaywall, the current state of Open Access, and the importance of Open Infrastructure moving forward

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science,... Read More

Sharpening insights into the innovation landscape with a new approach to patents
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) is updated weekly to keep up with the pace of scientific discoveries and technology advances. Just... Read More

Factors that make an impact
Number of citations in academic papers is not always a good measure for the influence of applied research papers. In... Read More

Mapping the global influence of published research on industry and innovation
Measuring citations to scholarly works in the global patent literature enables assessment of the influence of published research on invention,... Read More

The WIPO Manual on Open Source Patent Analytics
In this chapter we provide a brief introduction to The Lens patent database as a free source of data for patent analytics.... Read More

PatSeq genome tracks are now also available at UCSC genome browser
We are pleased to announce the release of the PatSeq tracks in the UCSC Genome Browser. These tracks contain shared data... Read More

The ownership question of plant gene and genome intellectual properties
The restructuring of the crop agriculture industry over the past two decades has enabled patent holders to exclude, prevent and... Read More

Gene patent practice across plant and human genomes
In human medicine, a successful new product or process can create a strong economic incentive to pay whatever it takes... Read More

Public disclosure of biological sequences in global patent practice
Abstract Biological sequences are an important part of global patenting, with unique challenges for their effective and equitable use in... Read More