F1000Research (launched 2013) is an original open-access publishing program for life scientists it offers:

• Immediate publication
• Transparent peer review (post-publication)
• Full data deposition and sharing

Other service on this platform includes:

F1000Posters an open access repository of conference posters and oral presentations from across biology and medicine. F10000 claims that by depositing you poster it will:

In addition to discovering US patents, Google Patents is now searching the European Patent Office as well. A new feature of this search engine is the Prior Art Finder, a great tool that allows to determine the novelty of a patent.

The Prior Art Finder identifies key phrases from the text of the patent, combines them into a search query, and displays relevant results from Google Patents, Google Scholar, Google Books, and the rest of the web.

A machine translation from Japanese to English can be done via the Industrial Property Digital Library (IPDL) website. This offers the public access to Japanese patents.

For example if the patent number is JP2010192904-A , follow these steps: