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’

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 ‘Spinal cord and technology and treatment’ 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. You can also limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review.

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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This web site is dedicated to the memory of  Dr. Elizabeth Papazoglou whose encouragement and guidance inspired me to create it  particularly for the students in her Biomaterials class but it can also be used by researchers, faculty members and other students across various disciplines. I am sure students will continue to find this compilation of resources helpful and stimulating as they think about commercialization of their innovations.

Our collaboration resulted into a workshop on Patent searching during the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education conference.

-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 Anatomy of a U.S. 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- WIPO GOLD-IP Reference Resource

WIPO GOLD is a free public resource which provides a one-stop gateway to WIPO’s global collections of searchable IP data. It aims to facilitate universal access to IP information

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

The Top 10 Biosimilar Players:  (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 International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) and Engineering Graduate Association (EGA) will host an information session on the latest version of EndNote as well as RSS Feed with Drexel Libraries’ own Jay Bhatt on Monday, March 7, 2011 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Main Building, Alumni Engineering Labs, room 275 (32nd and Chestnut Streets). Lunch will be provided. To register, email Michael at IAHR@drexel.edu.

See presentation and tutorials at:

• EndNote 2011 Presentation **X4 Update**
• EndNote blog and tutorials by Gary Childs
  

At Drexel University in Philadelphia, students and faculty advisors are trying to develop sustainable innovations that improve quality of life, push the envelope in terms of what’s already out there and offer innovations that are commercially viable and also acceptable to the public. They’re doing it through a living laboratory called the Drexel Smart House.

See the complete article at: A Smart House at Drexel University in Philadelphia Is a Living Laboratory of Sustainability in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) blog published by Forbes.

See also:

• Library Resources for Drexel Smart House Project
• Website: Drexel Smart House
• Blog: Drexel Smart House Blog

Science Accelerator is a gateway to science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy. Science Accelerator was developed and is made available from OSTI as a free public service.

Access: Science Accelerator and Science Accelerator Widget

Search: provides the capability to search recent and legacy science research and development results, project descriptions, accomplishments, patents, scientific research data, journal literature, and scientific and technical software via resources from the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), US Department of Energy (DOE)

RSS: provides announcements about items of interest related to Science Accelerator

Alerts: provides access to the capabilities to register to receive Science Accelerator alerts and to login to manage your alerts.

See also:

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?’

DOE Green Energy is a portal to information about various forms of green energy, including solar, wind, bioenergy, and others. This free search of green energy DOE technical report literature, green energy patent information, and much more is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

Access:  DOE Green Energy

BuildingGreen Suite integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News, and a database of more than 160 high-performance building case studies. The information is searchable and cross-referenced by CSI MasterFormat division, LEED credit, or green topic. Each article, product listing, and case study also lists related content and information sources.

Access: BuildingGreen Suite or go to Databases by Title page an click on BuildingGreen  Suite.

Building Green also provides access to High Performance Building database that provides access to case studies of projects ranging from homes and commercial interiors to large buildings and even whole campuses and neighborhoods. See ‘Using High Performance Building Database’ for more information on how to search this database.

The BuildingGreen.com LIVE blog is the place for real-time event coverage, reviews,and latest news from atest news from all over the green building world. You can find entries such as Putting wind turbines on buildings doesn’t make sense

BiologicalInformatics.info is a Subject Tracer Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for biological informatics (health informatics, neuroinformatics, biodiversity informatics and biomolecular informatics.

Examples include: DNA From the Beginning
Genome Gateway, Institute of Neuroinformatics, and Patent Lens – Patent Informatics and Analysis Component of the BIOS Initiative among many others.

The Drexel University Libraries, with support from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), will present The 5th Annual Scholarly Communication Symposium titled: Scholar2Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication. Join us to discuss how Web2.0 is changing scholarship. Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley will give a presentation, followed by a panel discussion featuring: Andre Brown, Nicole Engard, James Mitchell, Banu Onaral, Beth Ritter-Guth, and Scott Warnock. Small round-table discussions will follow. An optional Dutch-treat lunch concludes the day.

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Bossone

For more information:
Drexel University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Symposium: Scholar 2 Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication

To register:
Registration Form

Our Wiki:
Scholar2scholar

You will need to create your account in Wikispaces (if you do not have one) by clicking on ‘Join’ in the top right corner. Use your username and password you created to join our scholar2scholar wikispace.
(Note: Please try to use something resembling your real names as usernames)

Do not forget to explore our evolving section – Further reading on Web 2.0