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Welcome to the Biomedical Engineering Research Guide. This guide is intended to help faculty and students find the proper resources to assist with coursework, research, and other projects. Click the appropriate tab on the left to find what you need. For more assistance, contact Jay McAllister via email.
Below are some tools to get accustomed with such as Interlibrary Loan & OneSearch.
- Request through Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad)Enter your login information to access interlibrary loan service
- OneSearch This link opens in a new windowSearch library collections both print and online, connect to full text, request and renew, and save favorite items and searches.
Best Bets Databases
- MEDLINE Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new windowThis version links to 2,500 medical journals. Many are available with no embargo and cover areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the healthcare system , pre-clinical sciences, and more.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowCovers: 1950-. A service of the National Library of Medicine that includes citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. Offers comprehensive coverage of all areas of human and veterinary medicine, dentistry, nutrition, toxicology, pathology, public health, and health services administration.
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new windowCovers: 1907-. SciFinder is an easy-to-use interface to Chemical Abstracts and related databases, including: the CAS Registry of chemicals, reactions data, sources for chemical purchasing, and the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database. Individual registration required.
- ScienceDirect Freedom Collection This link opens in a new windowCovers: mainly 1995-. New: Expanded access to more than 2000 titles from Elsevier, Academic Press, and related publishers. Does not include the most recent issues from some special publishers such as Cell Press.
Best Bets
Databases -- These tools help to identify articles from journals and presentations from conferences. They improve on Google and Google Scholar searching in the comprehensiveness of the search pool, and they allow modification of searches and use of a controlled vocabulary. MESH headings are a controlled vocabulary in Medline. Other databases may have different ones.
- INSPEC This link opens in a new windowCovers: 1898-. A comprehensive index to the global journal and proceedings literature in physics, electrical/electronic engineering, computing, control engineering, mechanical engineering, production and manufacturing engineering, and information technology.
- ProQuest Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection This link opens in a new window
- Compendex This link opens in a new windowCovers: 1884-. Indexes journal and trade magazine articles, conference proceedings, and selected technical reports and books in all engineering disciplines as well as related fields in the sciences and management. On the Engineering Village platform.
Other special resources to assist, especially with technical information or standards:
- Knovel This link opens in a new windowCovers: 1938-. A searchable database of handbooks and reference sources in science and engineering. Includes a large number of publications from AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers).
- ASTM Compass This link opens in a new windowCovers: 1931-. Offers the full text of American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) standards, technical papers, and books. Search by keyword or standard number.