Foundation of Biomedical Engineering

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism Guide
• Plagiarism Powerpoint

Group Projects

• Group Therapy: a group project survival guide

Books

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

• Artificial Organs
• Tissue Engineering
• Bone and cartilage
• Prosthesis
• Biomaterials
• Spinal Cord
• Spinal Cord – ebooks
• Spinal Cord Wound and Injuries
• Spinal Cord Injuries

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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Engineering Library Instruction is an Instruction blog to help students develop their information seeking skills for their class assignments and research projects. The most recent entries include ‘How can I download citations from Knovel into either Refworks or ENDNOTE? and ‘What is AccessScience? How can I access it? What are Bookmarklets?’

SYNTHESIS: Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science is an innovative information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. The basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field.

It includes lectures such as:

Artificial Organs
Sensory Organ Replacement and Repair
The Transmission-Line Modeling (TLM) Method in Electromagnetics
Computational Electronics
Engineering Ethics: Peace, Justice, and the Earth

See Published Titles for all titles published so far this year.

For a list of titles currently in production and due to publish in the coming months, go to:
Forthcoming Synthesis Lectures

Email alerts on upto FIVE subject areas can be activated by completing the online registration form.

Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv online provids 3D model of the human anatomy. It includes Interactive Functional Anatomy and Complete Human Anatomy — both are 3D interactive human models.You can also export images, animations or text and rotate the model, adding or removing layers to show structures.

Access: Databases/Article Indexes for Medicine/Biomedical Sciences and then click on Primal Pictures.anatomy.tv or go to Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv

Examples of 3D anatomy models include: Interactive Head & Neck, Interactive Spine, Interactive Shoulder, and Interactive Foot among many others.

Note: You will need to enable pop-ups for optimal viewing.

With the new Google Patent Search tool, one can search across more than 7 million patents. Each Google Patent Search result represents an individual patent. Click on the patent image to access full patent. It displays results based on their relevance to the specific search terms entered. One can also see number of details about each patent in the list of results. These include: patent title, U.S. patent number, filing date, assignee name, patent snippet, patent summary, claims, and drawings. ‘Search within this patent’ option is available to search the text of an individual patent for specific keywords and phrases. it also lists other patents that were cited by the patent described on the page and lists other patents that reference the patent described on the page.

Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO – from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006. It does not currently include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months, but we look forward to expanding our coverage in the future

See About Google Patents for more information.

See Google Launches Google Patents, Full-Text US Patent Searching for comparison between the USPTO search and the Google search of the number of documents that show up for each year in a ten year period for the use of the word. See also Resourceshelf site to learn more about what Google Patents does not cover.

‘Lab on a Chip’ provides a unique forum for the publication of significant and original work related to miniaturisation (on or off chips) at the micro- and nano-scale across a variety of disciplines including: chemistry, biology, bioengineering, physics, electronics, clinical/medical science, chemical engineering and materials science, which is likely to be of interest to the multidisciplinary community that the journal addresses.

To access, please go to: Lab on a chip [electronic resource].
After you see the journal page, click on ‘Current Issue’ in the left column under ‘Reader Services’.

Brian Gray from the Case Western Reserve University provides some excellent information on various engineering resources in his e3 E-Resources for Engineering Education Blog. Most recently, he pointed out a very useful resource called Nanomedicine Lab Registry. From Brian’s blog, here is more information about this resource.
“The Nanomedicine Lab Registry was compiled from Medline abstracts containing specific nanomedicine keyphrases. It only includes laboratories with 5 or more publications. It uses a database of citation histories compiled from open source journal article reference lists and a major OCR (optical character recognition) campaign on their entire reference library. It also provides information on recent high impact articles in various subject areas covered by the Registry.”

See also other useful compilations such as Bioinformatics, Gene Theraphy, Nanomedicine and Stem Cells at Websites from the Ion Channel Media Group.

Hagerty Library’s new Career Services Library Assistant, Jenny Roberts is now available to assist members of the Drexel community with all their career-related reference needs. Whether you’re a student conducting an independent co-op search, a soon-to-be graduate searching for that perfect job or a Drexel alum in need of career assistance, Jenny can help you find the resources you’ll need. To schedule an appointment email Jenny at jroberts@drexel.edu, call 215.895.6843 or drop by Hagerty Room 136 during regular business hours.

See also: Drexel University Careers Collection: Resources for Biomedical Engineering and Engineering, Science, and Math Jobs for useful resources on searching for engineering jobs and internships .

KnowledgeSpeak newsletter reported that Publisher McGraw-Hill Professional has announced the addition of video news (90-second video segments) bring scientific news to life from ScienCentral, Inc., to AccessScience, its online encyclopaedia of science and technology.

AccessScience can be accessed at: AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill : [electronic resource] the McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology on the web.

The most recent video News entry is on Nano Bones. AccessScience also provides RSS feeds of new articles added. The AccessScience RSS feed delivers headlines and links back to the latest Encyclopedia articles, news stories, and announcements posted on the AccessScience home page.

Recent issues (1995 to present) of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology have been activated. With this activation, we now have full access to all issues of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (1973-Present). It can also be accessed from Browse/Search Electronic Journals by Title or Subject Category page and then searching for this title.