Databases

The Lens, the flagship project of the social enterprise Cambia, seeks to source, merge and link diverse open knowledge sets, including scholarly works and patents, to inform discovery, analysis, decision making and partnering on a human-centered user experience built on an open web platform, Lens.org, with toolkits designed to optimize institutional effectiveness in problem solving.

The Lens at its core is an aggregator of metadata, combining three unique content sets and one management tool as a base offering. This base supports the four primary functions of the Lens, which are to discover, analyse, manage and share knowledge:

• Scholarly Works: Discovery and analytics tools providing access to a global corpus of scholarly literature metadata with citation indexing.
• Patents: Discovery and analytics tools on a comprehensive collection of patent literature with citation indexing.
• PatSeq: A facility to search and analyse biological sequences disclosed in patent literature.
• Collections: A management tool to track, monitor, and analyse a collection of works or a collection of patents dynamically or statically.

Treesearch is a database of publications by scientists in the US Forest Service. Publications in the collection include research monographs published by the agency as well as papers written by USDA scientists but published by other organizations in their journals, conference proceedings, or books. There are currently more 35,000 publications in Treesearch, all of which can be downloaded in PDF format, making it the largest freely available collection of online forestry research in the world.

Treesearch lets you search listings by author, keyword, originating station or date. Keyword searches examine both the title and abstract.