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

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

Using Summon:

Try Summon to find books, articles and more. See also What is Summon? How can I use it?

• Click on Articles & More Tab in the Library Home page
• For example, type ‘Ethics and Highway Safety’ and click on Search Library link.
• Refine your search results by selecting an option from the left column. For example, select ‘ebook’ option. You will see a listing with links to  electronic books.
• Try Summon for quick search. For more in depth search, explore the resources below.

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
• Expanded Academic
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Xplore
• JSTOR
• LegalTrac
• Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
• 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
• Science and Engineering Ethics – an electronic journal

Some additinal resources

• Various Instructional Tutorials
• Eugenics and American Social History
• Buck V. Bell
• Skinner V. Oklahoma
• DNA Learning Center Blog
• Designer Humans
• Image Archive – American Eugenics Movement
• Indiana Eugenics
• NSPE Ethics
• Medical Ethics
• American Academy of Medical Ethics – Current Issues
• ToP 50 Medical Ethics Blogs
• Cases from the National Society of Professional Engineers
  Board of Ethical Review

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?’

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.