PIUG History

PIUG History is contained on the following pages:

Brian Stockdale Memorial Award Recipients

PIUG Milestones

PIUG Past Officers

PIUG Service Award Recipients

Bibliography

Two recently-published articles by Tom Wolff introduce the PIUG wiki and discussion forum to a wider audience and provide the rationale and strategies behind the development process. Share these articles with your colleagues to encourage them to sign up for the PIUG wiki and join the online collaboration.

Thomas E. Wolff: The Patent Information Users Group - Collaborating via the PIUG wiki and discussion forums, (2009): in press, doi:10.1016/j.wpi.2009.08.001. Copyright Elsevier Ltd. 2009.

Abstract: PIUG changed its principal way of facilitating interaction among its member and other interested individuals at the end of 2008. A wiki was created to promote sharing of information and collaboration. The PIUG space home page that users see initially and most of the wiki content is accessible to all, as is the discussion forum (PIUG-DF), which replaced the PIUG discussion list. The wiki has consistent design and functionality throughout, allowing simple participation through page creation and commenting by members of the global patent information community.

Thomas E. Wolff: The PIUG Wiki: Communication and Collaboration Par Excellence. Searcher. The Magazine for Database Professionals, 17, no. 8 (September 2009): pp. 12-19, 51-53.

Abstract: PIUG developed its new social networking medium, the PIUG wiki and Discussion Forum (PIUG-DF), to move beyond the limitations of its static web site and former email discussion list. The organization met seven key objectives, which ranged from making the wiki easy to contribute to, navigate, search and maintain to promoting community interaction and participation among PIUG members and others interested in patent information.

Sara K. Davis: The patent information users' group-- Twenty excellent years: PIUG's impact on patent information. World Patent Information, 31(2) (June 2009), pp. 140-141. Copyright Elsevier Ltd. 2009.

Andrew Berks: Newsletter of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services (NFAIS), Winter 1994.

Nancy Lambert: World Patent Information, 1992, 13(3), 149; and Database Searcher 1993, 9(1), 36.

Thoughts on PIUG - A collection of remembrances from early members of PIUG on the occasion of the ten-year anniversary celebration (from the September 1998 issue of the PIUG Newsletter)...Some of the early PIUG members reflect on the formation of PIUG.