Inventors' Resources

About the Resource List

Our Resource List includes links to a few Web pages we've found to contain information useful to inventors and entrepreneurs. It only includes information likely to be of use regardless of your particular product or service field. Since the range of possible fields is limitless, it would not be feasible to address product specific fields in this list.

Links are grouped under business process headings based on the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Each heading begins with the corresponding DDC code. Links to information of general interest or which could be applied to a number of processes are classified under "General." Links applicable to several processes are grouped under the process having the greatest application.

Business Process Headings

• Invention and patents
• General
• Organization and finance
• Plant
• Personnel
• Production
• Materials
• Distribution and marketing

Where the number of links merits it, they are further sub-divided by focus. Links to general information on the subject or which have no particular focus are classified under "General Reference." Pages with several focuses are grouped under the focus that predominates.

Areas of Focus on a Subject

• General Reference
• Bibliography
• Products and services
• Serial Publications
• Organizations

There are two ways to find references in the list:

1. Browse the list. Just go to the list and browse through it for things of interest.
2. Search the list. Go to the list and use your browser's Edit Find command to search for a keyword in the headings, titles and abstracts.