Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Japan Platform for Patent Information

offers the public access to IP Gazettes of the JPO free of charge through the Internet.

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

is an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 168 national standards bodies. It brings together experts to share knowledge and develop voluntary, consensus-based, market relevant International Standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges.

Discover internet resources for research:

Engineering preprint servers

• arXiv e-print server
  is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields including computer science, electrical engineering and systems science.
• engrXiv Preprints
  is dedicated to the dissemination of engineering knowledge quickly and efficiently.
• Preprints.org
  is a multi-discipline platform providing preprint service. It is dedicated to making early versions of research outputs permanently available and citable.
• TechRxiv
  is a preprint server powered by IEEE and providing access to preprints in technology research.

Online Guide: Preprints

Other useful links

• Abbreviations.com
  is the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.

Special Access Hint (Google Scholar)