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
BioOne	Aggregation of full-text bioscience journals, most published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Blackwell Synergy	Search Blackwell Synergy for access to more than 770 full text journals on many topics areas: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Titles Included \| Search Help	1879-	Y
Encyclopedia of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering	Covers broad range of research in this area including tissue engineering, prosthetics, drug delivery, biosensors, and medical devices.	Current	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	1969-	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
Medical and Healthcare Marketplace Guide Online	Provides access to reports on trends, developments, scientific advancements, and company activities medical and healthcare segments, including the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology sectors.	Current	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	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. Titles \| Search Tips	1946-	Y

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