Databases by Subject - Biomedical Engineering

Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
Academic OneFile	Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
Amedeo.com Medical Literature Guide	Medical literature search of articles and books. Offers a search option for FreeBooks4Doctors.com and FreeMedicalJournals.com.	Varies	Y
BioMed Central	Contains hundreds of peer-reviewed open access journals.	1997-	Y
BioOne	Aggregation of full-text bioscience journals, most published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation	Online edition contains 250+ articles including latest developments in medical devices, including nanotechnology, fiber optics, and signal processing.	2005	Y
Engineering Village	Abstracts from Compendex and INSPEC databases, with links to full text articles, patents, standards and handbooks in scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines.Search Tips	1884-	Y
ENGnetBASE	745+ Engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Search Help	Current	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
Health Reference Center - Academic	InfoTrac databases which provides full text from medical and consumer journals, health newsletters, topical overviews and pamphlets. Titles Included	1980-	Y
IEEE Xplore	Full text of all IEEE and IET journal articles, conference papers, and standards. Titles Included \| FAQ Tips \| User Guide	1913, 1988+ for most	Y
LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic	Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Gateway	One-stop searching for medical databases such as MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, DIRLINE and AIDS Meetings. Search Tips	Varies	N
Oxford Journals Online	Search Oxford journals, we subscribe to 100+ titles covering a variety of topic areas.	1995-	Y
PubMed	From the National Library of Medicine, covers clinical medicine, dentistry, nursing and nutrition. Same as MEDLINE. Titles Included \| Search Tips \| Tutorial	1966-	N
ScienceDirect	Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Varies	Y
SciFinder Scholar	Electronic access to Chemical Abstracts, indexing the literature of chemistry. Search Tips	1907-	Y
SpringerLink	Access to a variety of scholarly science journals published by Springer. Titles Included	Varies	Y
Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering	Full text of this resource for biomedical engineers, covering everything from Accelerometers to Xenotransplantation. Help	2006	Y
Wiley Interscience	Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips	1946-	Y

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