The Lens
Patent and scholarly search and analysis as an open digital public good
The Lens is a free, open-access platform for searching, analyzing, and reporting on global patents and scholarly literature. It offers a data-driven report builder called Lens Reports for creating shareable, real-time research outputs, as well as a REST API for programmatic access to its full corpus. Privacy and openness are central to its mission as a digital public good.
Users can search and analyze patents and scholarly works through a web interface or REST API, then compile findings into shareable, data-driven reports linked to live Lens data.
Researchers, librarians, scientists, and policy analysts needing access to global patent and scholarly data
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
- Company
- Cambia
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