Biomedical Engineering Research: Home

Last Updated: May 4, 2022 1:34 PM

Getting Started

This guide provides resources for conducting research in biomedical engineering. It is your library research work space. Use the tabs above to link to article databases, books, properties data, standards, test methods, patents, and other types of information related to research in your field. Please contact me for individual consultation, group instruction, library purchase recommendations, and suggestions for this guide

Best Bets

Short on time? These resources are your best bet for this subject area.

Web of Science
One-pass searching of Web of Science citation indexes, BIOSIS Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, MEDLINE and more. More Info
Partial Full-TextUB ONLY
Engineering Village
The combined Compendex, Inspec, GeoRef, and NTIS databases. More Info
Partial Full-TextUB ONLY
ScienceDirect - (Elsevier)
Partial Full-Text of all Elsevier published journals. More Info
Partial Full-TextUB ONLY

Streaming Media

JoVE Unlimited
A peer reviewed video journal and science education platform. More Info
Streaming MediaUB ONLY
AVON - Academic Video Online
Streaming video in a wide range of subjects and genres. More Info
Streaming MediaUB ONLY
Kanopy Streaming Service
Videos from major educational film producers. More Info
Streaming MediaUB ONLY

For more streaming media available at UB, check out our Streaming Media webpage.

Figures from US Patent 3478746, "Cardiac Implantable Demand Pacemaker," Wilson Greatbatch, inventor, 1969

Pacemaker patent schemativ

How to Read a Scientific Paper

The video above was created by the librarians at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Purdue University Libraries has also put together a wonderful tutorial. It was originally created to be an interactive tutorial using flash player, but flash is no longer supported in Chrome browsers. Therefore, you can access a PDF version by clicking on this link.

Engineering Librarian

Erin Rowley

Email Me

Contact:

119 Lockwood Library
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
epautler@buffalo.edu

716-645-1369

Citation Management Software

UB has a site license to EndNote, software that allows you to collect, store, organize, retrieve, and automatically format references to journal articles, books, patents, and more in your papers.

For help using EndNote, click here for the EndNote Basics Guide here. The Guide contains descriptions of features, PDF downloads, and videos on how to use EndNote effectively.

For more help, contact Erin Rowley, Engineering Librarian, epautler@buffalo.edu.