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

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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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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DeviceSpace is the premier online community for the Medical Device and Diagnostics industries. DeviceSpace.com features a comprehensive Career Network for industry professionals and employers, and delivers through user-friendly navigation daily news, events, company profiles, stocks, blogs and other relevant information from the sector. DeviceSpace also hosts Medical Device Career Fairs throughout the US.

See also: Medical Device and Diagnostic News

News categories include:

• Medical Dev. & Diag. – Approvals
• Medical Dev. & Diag. – Drug Delivery
• Medical Dev. & Diag. – Grants
• Medical Dev. & Diag. – Nanotechnology
• Medical Dev. & Diag. – Patent News

Use the Online Catalog to find book sand other materials available in the library.
To find resources on a particular topic, search in the online catalog using ‘Advanced Keyword Searching’ feature

• Ethic* and Biomedical Research
• Medical Ethics
• Human Experimentation in Medicine Moral and Ethical Aspects
• Institutional Review Board

Use following electronic databases/indexes to find articles on your topic dealing with any ethical issues.

• Academic OneFile
• Applied Science and Technology Retro
• CQ Researcher
• EBSCO via Access PA
  Use Business Source Premier and Professional Development Collection
• Ei Compendex/Engineering Village2/INSPEC
• ETHXWeb Journal articles and other material relating to bioethics/biomedical ethics and professional ethics.
• Expanded Academic
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Xplore
• JSTOR
• Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
• LegalTrac
• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Policy and Legislation Database
• National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
• Project Muse
• Proquest Research Library
• Synthesis: Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science

Some useful journal titles

• BMC Medical Ethics
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Journal of Fluency Disorders
• Science and Engineering Ethics – an electronic journal

Some additinal resources

• Various Instructional Tutorials
• Medical Ethics
• American Academy of Medical Ethics – Current Issues
• ToP 50 Medical Ethics Blogs
• Ethics and Philosophy Research Guide

Scirus is a comprehensive science and engineering specific search engine that searches open-access websites as well as peer-reviewed content from publisher sites.  With over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

Scirus is also linked from Databases/Article indexes for Engineering or it can be found by searching on our Library’s online catalog in the ‘Title’ field.

To link to Drexel full text from Scirus, first add Drexel University in the Library Partner Links within Scirus Preferences

Thomas Fuller, SF Environmental Policy Examiner, analyzed nanotechnology patents using ‘Advanced Search’ feature in scirus.   He found records of 8,007 patent filings for nanotechnology.  According to Fuller, “Of those 8,007 patents that have nanotechnology in the title, abstract or text, 7,007 were filed in the past 5 years.  That’s 88%. Almost a quarter–23%–were filed last year alone. That’s one reason why I think nanotechnology will be to this century what electricity was to the last.” He also writes, “the recovery of the American economy and progress to unprecedented heights over the next 10 years would be led by nanotechnology, bio-technology and robotics.”

Read the full article at: American economy and progress to be led by nanotechnology, bio-technology and robotics.

UMTRI carries out short- and long-term research projects in broad areas involving accident data collection and traffic safety analysis, bioengineering, human factors, mechanical engineering, psychology, economics, public policy, and all aspects of the science of driving. In addition, numerous multidisciplinary research programs are currently being conducted with other units of the University involving specialized areas of engineering, business, medicine, and public health.

The UMTRI Library houses one of the world’s most extensive collections of literature on traffic safety. It reflects the diversity of disciplines that the field comprises: biomechanics, lighting, vehicle dynamics, driver behavior, and injuries from motor-vehicle crashes.

Recent deposits include:

• Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems field operational test plan
• Relationships among driver age, vehicle cost, and fatal nighttime crashes
• Truck mirrors, fields of view, and serious truck crashes

Search: Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) Reports