Some nanotechnology related electronic Journals available through our Library website:

• Nanoscale research letters
• Nano today
• Photonics and nanostructures
• Nano letters
• Nanomedicine
• Nanostructured materials

Comprehensive list of Nanotechnology Publications can be accessed through the link:

• Nanotechnology Journals

Chempedia is the free and open chemical substance registry. It enables anyone to register, at no cost, individual substances through a Web-based interface. Each substance receives a unique, numerical, checksummed identifier that can be used anywhere and looked up at no cost. Each substance also gets a canonical URI from which everything that is known through Chempedia can be found.

Chempedia uses a streamlined from of peer review that combines concepts used in traditional peer review with experiences learned from modern social media.

Source: depth-first

Books

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas

• Motorsports
• Magnetic  materials
• Automobiles–Brakes
• SAE – Society of Automotive Engineers
• Nanomaterials
• Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
• Engineering Ethics
• Nanowires
• Biopolymers
• Sensor Networks
• Aircraft Design

To find additional books on, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword searching .

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Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Center

Proposed Senior Design Projects
Senior Design Evaluator Form – Written Report Rubric

Books, Handbooks, Electronic Books and Journal Articles
See: Tissue Engineering (Refer to this page to explore various electronic resources that our Library subscribes)

Biomedical Properties
See: Handbooks and Encyclopedias and Comprehensive Composite Materials, Encyclopedia of Materials and Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology

Ethical and Professional Issues
See: Biomedical and Engineering Ethics

Bioinformatics
See: Bioinformatics Resources

Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship
See: Entrepreneurship for Biomedical Engineering
Use resources here to find marketing and forecast information about your design.

Patent Searching
See: Patents, FDA approved medical devices, and Intellectual Property

Standards
See: How Do I access ASTM, SAE, ASHRAE, ISO or ANSI standards? Any other standards?

For more extensive listings of resources, please see our Standards guide.

News and Recent Developments

Use the following databases to find information on breaking news in biomedical technologies in magazines and newspapers

Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
Expanded Academic
Factiva
Proquest

Supply Costs
Globalspec: Engineering Search engine
Biomedical Communications (Product Catalog)

Keeping uptodate with new developments and research articles
See:How do I subscribe to RSS feeds from IEEE Xplore? How do I receive regular email notification of recently posted journals, magazines or standards?

How do I set up RSS feeds using PubMed database?

What is Tagging? How do I use Tagging and Groups features available in Engineering Village? How do I receive RSS feeds for my searches in Engineering Village?

Web of Science Instructional Tutorials and go to Savings Search Histories and Alerts

Statistical Resources
See: Statistical Resources, Lexis/Nexis Statistical, Statistical Resources on the Web and Health Data

Some Readings – Snapping Shrimp

Snapping Shrimp Drown Out Sonar With Bubble-Popping Trick, Described In Science
Snapping Shrimp – Discovery of Sound in the Sea
Bioacoustics – Acoustic Monitoring
Acoustic Monitoring – Underwater Acoustics Monitoring Tutorial
Snapping Shrimp – an article from the Scientific American

Protecting Whales from Dangerous Sonar  NRDC’s campaign to regulate harmful Navy sonar systems is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

High Court Hears Navy Sonar Case

Underwater Acoustics – U.S. Navy Ships

Books

Physics and Sound
Underwater Acoustics
Physics and Biology
Acoustic* and bio*
Sonar
Acoustic Waves
Acoustical Engineering

To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords.

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-Patent Searching

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
The USPTO offers web access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. These databases provide full-text of patents from 1976 to the present and full page images from 1790 to the present.

See What is a Patent?
See Patent Searching Tips.
See ‘What is Intellectual Property?’ in Frequently Asked Questions for Inventors
See ‘Manual of Patent Classification’

Fresh Patents
Provides access to the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to
grant/deny.

pat2pdf.org
Given a patent number, pat2pdf.org will return a free, pdf formated version of the patent.

The Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s to present.

Medical Device Manufacturers Association – Patent Issues

How do I find International patents?

The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site provides access to intellectual property data collections hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization. These collections include PCT (Patents), Madrid (Trademarks), Hague (Industrial Designs), Article 6ter (State Emblems, Official Hallmarks, and Emblems of Intergovernmental Organizations) and others.

See Technology Commercialization at Drexel and See Patent Policy (Re: Intellectual Property) from the Office of the Provost at Drexel University.

Patent Protection Strategies: Maximizing market exclusivity (Note: Search in ‘Business Insights’ database and use keyword ‘patent’ to locate this and other reports on patents)

Nanotechnology related initiatives

FDA’s Nanotechnology Task Force
National Nanotechnology Initiative
Nanomedicine from NIH

Nanotechnology to revolutionise drug delivery
Cancer nanotechnology: opportunities and challenges

Dr. Papazoglou’s Electronic Book – Bionanotechnology – available from the Synthesis Digital Library

Important Key words in Drug Delivery and Nanotechnology:

Nasal and transdermal drug delivery, Injectable drugs, Implantable delivery systems, Nanocapsules, Nanoparticles, Nanovehicles, Nanomedicine, Oral drug delivery system, Controlled drug delivery, Cancer nanotechnology

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The Drexel Smart House is a unique multidisciplinary project working toward the goal of creating a building that functions like a home and serves as a laboratory to continually conduct research on innovations to the home experience. Through student-led (undergraduate and graduate from all colleges and majors) research and design, the Drexel Smart House will explore the areas of health and wellness, environmental interactions, efficiency, entertainment and communications. Ultimately, this research and design will be implemented into an urban home where involved students will live, thereby studying the effectiveness of the new ideas and proving the benefit of the Smart House.

See: Drexel Smart House
Blog: Drexel Smart House Blog

Books

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the Hagerty library at Drexel University in some key areas.

Smart Structures
Smart Materials
Intelligent Buildings
Green Buildings
Energy and homes
smart Home

To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords.

See also: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Senior Seminar, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Senior Design Resources and How Do I access ASTM, SAE, ASHRAE, ISO or ANSI standards? Any other standards?

Statistical Resources

Statistical Resources
Statistical Resources on the Web – Energy

Grant and Funding Opportunities

• NSF Fastlane Award Search and Funding Trends
  FastLane covers the full range of transactions between a research organization, its researchers, and NSF. See also Grant Proposal Guide.

• Community of Science (CoS) Scholar Universe
  A database for researchers which includes an expertise directory, funding opportunities, MEDLINE and the Federal Register.
• What is Community of Science (COS) Scholar Universe? How can I find out where I can present my papers?
• How do I locate funding opportunities for research or travel grants to assist me in planning for participating in conferences?
• CoS Expertise
  Detailed professional information about nearly 480,000 scientists, scholars and researchers.
• CoS Funding Opportunities
  A searchable and browsable database of funding information.
• Databases/Indexes for Funding
  See also Research Guides for Grants and Prospect Research
• Encyclopedia of Associations Online
  Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Bioinstrumentation

Bioinstrumentation
Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation
Medical and Instrumentation
Sensors and Handbook
Biomedical and Devices
Medical and Sensors
Pressure and Flow and Measurements
Cardiovascular and Devices

To find additional books on ‘Biomedical Engineering’, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword searching and using the term ‘Biomedical Engineering’

Electronic Books

Click on the links below to access electronic books (Access only to Drexel faculty and students)

AccessMedicine
Books@OVID
ebrary
Electronic Lectures on Biomedical Mechanics from Synthesis Digital Library
Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
ENGnetBASE
Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Online References
MATERIALSnetBASE
NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE

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Plagiarism

• Plagiarism Guide
• Plagiarism Powerpoint

Books

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Tissue Engineering

• Biomaterials and Properties
• Cellular and Tissue Engineering
• Genes and Genomes
• Stem Cells
• Artificial Organs
• Biomechanics
• Cells and Tissue and Signal
• Cell and Signal* and Pathways
• NIH
• Tissue Engineering – Electronic Books
• Tissue Engineering – Both Print and Electronic Books
• Prosthetics
• Biomaterials
• Drug Delivery

To find additional books on ‘Biomedical Engineering’, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword searching and using the term ‘Biomedical Engineering’.

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USGS Minerals portal provides Statistics and information on the worldwide
supply of, demand for, and flow of minerals and materials essential to the U.S.
economy, the national security, and protection of the environment.

See also:

• Copper Statistics and Information
• Mineral Industry Surveys and Industry Data
• Minerals Yearbook (Annual)
• USGS Publications and Data Products
• Recycling
• Metal Industry Indicators (Monthly)