Biomedical Engineering and Design
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- Biomedical Engineering and Design
- Neural Implants and Interfaces, EN580.742, Spring 2021
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- MSEL M-level
Find Journal Articles, News, and More
Also see the Engineering guide for information about patents, standards, and more.
Save your time! Use these search techniques:
- Put quotation marks around PHRASES (two or more words), so that the words are searched together
--- Example: "chicken pox"
- Put an asterisk at the end of words, so that you get all of the word endings
--- Example: high* = high, highs, higher, highest
- Think of alternate spellings or synonyms
--- brain OR neural; healthcare OR "health care"
- Start by putting your search words in the Title. If you get nothing, you can take them out of the Title and move them to "Anywhere."
Get an overview of your topic by searching textbooks and review articles.
Textbooks (all online)
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AccessMedicine - A collection of medical textbooks (e.g., Harrison's Internal Medicine), with overviews of diseases and conditions, lab tests, drug information, images, and more
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MedOne Neurosurgery -- Information about particular conditions (e.g., aneurysm, coma, trauma); Greenberg's Handbook of Neurosurgery [2019], information and images about procedures and cases; and a few videos
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Other Ebooks
-- neural implants (in the TITLE; 2011+; including Interfacing Bioelectronics and Biomedical Sensing, 2020)
-- neurophysiology (in the TITLE; 2014+)
-- medical physics (subject) + "neural" (somewhere in the record; 2015+; including Neural Engineering, 2020)
-- the words "circuit" and "design" in the TITLE; 2011+
Review Articles -- These are overviews of a topic, including its history and state of the art. They are longer than most articles, and have lots of references.
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Engineering -- Do a search in Compendex, and add the word "review" to the article TITLE
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Medicine and related topics -- Do a search in PubMed, and choose "review article" (left, under "Article Type");
in EMBASE, do a search, then "review" (on left, under "publication types"); also see the PubMed and EMBASE page on this guide for screenshots of EMBASE's "devices" features
Consumer Information:
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MedlinePlus.gov -- This National Library of Medicine site is the FIRST place you should go for health information.
"Health Topics" is the link to medical information, and there are also links to a medical encyclopedia and dictionary.
Statistics -- This page lists sources for data and statistics.
Market Research -- This page has the best databases for market forecasts and information in our field.
Articles: where to Start
- Compendex
- PubMed
- Scopus
- EMBASE
- Other sources listed in the databases for Engineering and for Medicine, Nursing, and Other Health Fields
Finding Information about Everything Else
1. Library home page --> Databases
2. Click "Browse list of databases"
3. Choose a subject to see the databases with information about it.
4. In each list, start with the databases under CORE -- they are the best and most relevant
- For a description about what's in the database, click "More Info" next to the database name
5. Technical info -- Use the databases in the Engineering list (starting with Compendex) and Computer Science list
6. Patents -- Go to the Patents page on the Engineering guide, and take your time reading through the information. Looking for patents can take some time, so be patient.
7. News -- News items can give you the most recent information about products, companies, and other information sources about your topics.
- Here is the list of newspapers and other news sources
- Business news -- start with ABI/INFORM, then look at the others in the Business list
8. Very Broad Search for Articles -- see the Google Scholar page
For time-saving tips about the best ways to use Google Scholar, see the Google Scholar page in this guide.
The library's Citing guide gives examples for the three main reference styles and some others, such as AMA and IEEE.
If you're using RefWorks, here's an example of how folders can help you organize your references.
- You should number each section so that's in the order you want, instead of RefWorks' default alphabetical order
- Note that you can create subfolders, as shown under folders 3 and 4
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