Biomedical Engineering Resources

The Pacific library subscribes to a variety of both popular and scholarly periodicals.  It is very important that you know the differences!

Popular	Scholarly
Contemporary, popular topics	Academic and original research
Written by staff writers	Written by scholars and experts
Selected by the editor	Accepted by a panel of experts
Few or no footnotes, bibliographies	Footnotes, bibliographies
Advertisements	Few or no advertisements

How to search databases? (Boolean Logic)

• Use AND to narrow your search, for example, Internet AND Web finds articles that contains BOTH terms.
• Use OR to broaden your search, for example, Internet OR Web finds articles that contains EITHER terms.

Databases deal with bioengineering related subjects:

The library’s databases are arranged by disciplines (categories), for example, Biology, Engineering, Pharmacy, Chemistry…, etc.  First look for the categories that best match your research topic, then look for specific resources (databases) that may contain information you need. If you are not sure what category, start with Multidisciplinary. The following are a few suggestions:

Category: Multidisciplinary

• Dissertation Abstracts covers dissertations accepted at accredited U.S institutions since 1861. It also selectively includes masters theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations.

Category: Engineering

• ACM Digital Library is the ultimate online resource for the computing industry. It offers full-text journals, conference proceedings, publication archives dating back to the 1950s.
• IEEE Xplore provides full text access to more than 120 IEEE periodicals from 1998 to present, but no full-text access to proceedings or standards.
• Wiley InterScience is the online content service from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., delivering the full text of over 100 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals.

Category: Biology

• Agricola contains records for articles, technical reports, and book chapters on all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, and alternative farming practices.

Category: Pharmacy

• CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing, allied health, and biomedical engineering) journals.
• PubMed was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It was developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers.

• American Society of Biomechanics
• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering Society
• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
• Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems of the National Science Foundation
• Whitaker Foundation: Offers a competitive grant programs that support research and education in biomedical engineering at academic institutions in the United States and Canada.

Portals

• BMEsource.org: A biomedical technology design web portal provides high quality, basic information about clinical problems, biomedical technologies that address them and business and law resources that assist in technology transfer.
• Biomedical Engineering Network: Contains complete coverage for biomedical engineering jobs, resources, grants, databases, publications, societies, academic programs and focused Internet searches.
• National Center for Biotechnology Information: Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

Technical Reports

• Public STINET: The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)'s Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET) Service helps the DoD community access pertinent scientific and technical information to meet mission needs effectively. Includes DTIC's technical reports collection and some full text resources.
• NTIS: National Technical Information Service: NTIS is the largest, central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today.

Patents

• United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Database: Covers United States Utility, Design and Plant Patents. Contents include images for patents from 1790 to the present.

Materials Safety Datasheets

• Where to Find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet: Links to various, mostly for-pay, sites with material safety data sheets (MSDS).
• MatWeb: Material Property Data: Searchable database of material data sheets, including property information on thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials.