NERAC (Patent Databases And Journals)

One of the best source for accessing journals, newspapers and other publications is NERAC. For a fixed cost of (as low as) a few thousand dollars per year, NERAC provides unlimited access to tens of thousands of publications, as well as worldwide patents and published applications. Searches against the databases cannot be performed directly by NERAC customers, but instead are performed by extremely experienced professionals in all the different fields. Thus, a pharmaceutical search may well be performed by someone with an advanced degree in microbiology or biochemistry. Moreover, the person doing the search is available by telephone or email to discuss search strategy, and to fine-tune subsequent searches. Turnaround is usually a day or so, although NERAC is very good at handling emergency searches. NERAC is also wonderful for on-going searches through their on-line TechTrak™ facility.