Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering Librarian
Sarah Lester
Contact:
Robert E. Kennedy Library Room 216D
Subjects: Aerospace Engineering, BioMedical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Engineering Reference, Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Standards
Scholar Representation by Race
This tally acknowledges the white supremacy in this field: the numbers indicate the racial representation of the books listed in this libguide.
Black authors: 0 Indigenous authors: 0 Other POC authors: 0 White authors: 2
Biomedical Engineering Resources
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PubMedPubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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SciFinderSciFinder Scholar is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and agricultural science.
Users must create an account before accessing SciFinder Scholar. Go here to create a new account. Off campus users must first connect to Cal Poly via VPN.
If you have not accessed your account in the last 18 months, you will not be able to log in until you have contacted the CAS Customer Center and asked them to reinstate your account.
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ASME Digital CollectionThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers publishes technical material on subject areas such as biomechanical engineering, heat transfer, fluids engineering, aerospace, nanotechnology, transportation and more.
Cal Poly users may access ASME's Transaction Journals from 2000 to the present.
Find Engineering Peer Reviewed Articles and Conference Proceedings
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Engineering Village (Compendex)Compendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.
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IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)The IEEE/IET Electronic Library provides access to full-text documents from publications in electrical engineering, computer science, telecommunications, electronics and related disciplines, including journals, ebooks, standards, and conference proceedings from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), John Wiley & Sons, and MIT Press.
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Web of Science (Core Collection)Web of Science (Core Collection) provides a single search across Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Additional Web of Science databases are easily accessible.
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InspecInspec® is a comprehensive index to global literature in electronics, computer science, physics, electrical, control, production and mechanical engineering. Includes INSPEC Thesaurus, Classification Codes and other specialized search aids.
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Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. Search results may be from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Help setting Library Links to access Cal Poly resources is available here.
Biomedical Engineering Handbooks
Biomedical Engineering Web Resources
Biomat.net is aimed at linking the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering community worldwide. This site provides updated news in the field, delivered through a monthly newsletter, and also a collection of selected internet links related to Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering
AIMBE was founded in 1991 to provide leadership and advocacy in medical and biological engineering for the benefit of society.
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is the world's largest international society of biomedical engineers.
Materials Databases and Standards
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ASM Handbooks OnlineASM Handbooks Online is a comprehensive source of information on ferrous and non-ferrous metals and materials technology.
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ASME Digital CollectionThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers publishes technical material on subject areas such as biomechanical engineering, heat transfer, fluids engineering, aerospace, nanotechnology, transportation and more.
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ASTM Standards & Digital LibraryThe ASTM Digital Library includes the complete Book of Standards as well as access to every book, paper, and journal article published by ASTM. ASTM Digital Library covers a broad range of engineering disciplines including: aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science and solar engineering.
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ReaxysReaxys provides chemical properties and preparations for inorganic and organic compounds. It is searchable in multiple ways, including chemical structure, formula, physical property, and reaction. This is a combination of retired databases Beilstein (organic reactions, spectra, properties, etc.), Gmelin (inorganic) and Chemistry Patent Database. This database includes a chemical drawing program.
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SAE Aerospace and Vehicle Standards, Journals, and Technical PapersSAE MOBILUS provides standards and journals related to the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries. Cal Poly users may access Ground Vehicle Standards, USCAR Reports, Aerospace Standards, and Aerospace Material Specifications, as well as all SAE international journals from 2013 to present and all SAE Technical Papers from 1990 to present.
Finding Patents
Patent websites and search tools
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The LensThe Lens is a free and open-source patent search tool that searches across multiple patent and scholarly research databases.
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European Patent OfficeProvides patent documents from 80 countries.
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Google PatentsCovers the entire collection of issued patents and millions of patent application made available by the USPTO, from patents issued in the 1790s through those most recently issued in the past few months.
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Japan Patent Office (JPO)Note: Use the Japanese translation of inventor name when searching.
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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Full-Text and Image Database (PatFT)The USPTO houses full text and images for patents issued for all patents from 1790+. Note: This search only includes accepted patents (it takes ~18 months from filing to denial/acceptance).
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UN World Intellectual Property OrganizationSearch applications from 27 national patent offices.
Research databases
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InspecInspec® is a comprehensive index to global literature in electronics, computer science, physics, electrical, control, production and mechanical engineering. Includes INSPEC Thesaurus, Classification Codes and other specialized search aids.
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ReaxysReaxys provides chemical properties and preparations for inorganic and organic compounds. It is searchable in multiple ways, including chemical structure, formula, physical property, and reaction. This is a combination of retired databases Beilstein (organic reactions, spectra, properties, etc.), Gmelin (inorganic) and Chemistry Patent Database. This database includes a chemical drawing program.
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SciFinderSciFinder Scholar is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and agricultural science.
Users must create an account before accessing SciFinder Scholar. Go here to create a new account. Off campus users must first connect to Cal Poly via VPN.
If you have not accessed your account in the last 18 months, you will not be able to log in until you have contacted the CAS Customer Center and asked them to reinstate your account.
Concerned about account privacy? View the CAS privacy policy. -
Web of Science (Core Collection)Web of Science (Core Collection) provides a single search across Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Additional Web of Science databases are easily accessible.