Tag der Bibliotheken

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Zum Tag der Bibliotheken am 24. Oktober 2011 gibt es ein kurzes Video:

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Vom 24. bis 31. Oktober 2011 findet eine bundesweite Aktionswoche unter dem Motto Treffpunkt Bibliothek – Information hat viele Gesichter statt. Auch in Berlin und Brandenburg gibt es zahlreiche Veranstaltungen wie Lesungen, Ausstellungen, Diskussionsrunden.
Mehr unter: http://www.treffpunkt-bibliothek.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungskalender/

Bei der Eröffnungsveranstaltung erhält die Berliner Stadtteilbibliothek Anton-Saefkow in Lichtenberg die Auszeichnung Bibliothek des Jahres.

Searching for patents

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Patents are a very special kind of publication. Looking for a patent you know specific information about can be searched by using the patent number (e.g. EP2366664) or the inventor’s name. To find patents about a specific technology is much more difficult due to legal terminology used in patents.

Patents can be downloaded for free at the patent offices. Another way to get your PDF very quickly is to use a web service (by IVS-CPT), you just need the patent number.

Free patent databases:

  • esp@cenet (European Patent Office)
    The database covers 40 million patents from 71 countries.
  • DEPATISnet (German Patent and Trade Mark Office)
  • USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office)

A number of patent databases, licensed for the Max Planck Society, are available via the web interface STNEasy.
Most bibliographic databases like Web of Science and Scopus do not contain patents. But one database that indexes patents is SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts). It covers patent references from 61 patent authorities around the world.

If you have a request about patent information and your searches in the available databases are not sufficient you should contact the information services of the MPS.

100th anniversary of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

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This is the title of a special issue published in Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) including article from H.-J Freund, G. Meijer, M. Scheffler, R. Schlögl, M. Wolf, H. Schwarz, G. Somorjai.

The issue is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.v50.43/issuetoc [only for subscribers].

Es ist auch eine deutsche Version unter dem Titel 100 Jahre Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft [only for subscribers] verfügbar.

Leisure Reading

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Our leisure reading section is constantly growing. It mainly contains fiction books in German but there are also some English and Dutch titles available. You find the section on the gallery beside shelf mark 16 E. For borrowing just fill in our check-out cards as usual.

Here are some titles of the collection:

Wetering, Janwillem van de: Leider war es Mord (FL 114)
Murakami, Haruki: After the Quake (FL 69)
Regener, Sven: Herr Lehmann (FL 47)
Martel, Yann: Life of Pi (FL 24)
Leon, Donna: Acqua alta : Commissario Brunettis fünfter Fall (FL 13)

You find all Leisure Reading titles in Library Thing.