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Biomedical Engineering Research: Handbooks & Encyclopedias

Last Updated: Jan 23, 2024 10:22 AM

See the Books and e-Books tab of this Research Guide for additional links to databases specifically devoted to science and engineering ebooks like Knovel and AccessEngineering.

Visible Body Human Anatomy Atlas

  • Definition, pronunciation, and disease descriptions are available. With this resource, you can create views into the human body, rotate and zoom into body regions, dissect anatomy, view structures from all body systems, compare models side-by-side with cadaver images and diagnostic images, and test your knowledge using a 1,000+ question test bank. This application can be downloaded and installed on a mobile device or used on a computer.

Online Encyclopedias

  • Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering
    Major resource containing over 350 peer reviewed articles and more than 2,000 tables, figures, and illustrations.
    [Once connected, from the left-hand side menu under FIND ARTICLES, select either "Articles by Title" or "Articles by Subject." Or over on the right-hand side of the page, click on where it says "Search in this Book" to get to a new page with a search box for searching the encyclopedia by keywords.]

  • Comprehensive Biophysics
    Covers biophysical techniques for structural characterization of macromolecules and cells, folding of proteins and nucleic acids, molecular motors and motility, membranes, channels, cell biophysics, bioenergetics, and simulation and modelling.

  • Comprehensive Biomaterials II, 2nd edition
    Seven-volume online encyclopedia that addresses the current status of nearly all biomaterials in the field, their strengths and weaknesses, their future prospects, appropriate analytical methods and testing, device applications and performance, emerging candidate materials as competitors and disruptive technologies, research and development, regulatory management, commercial aspects, and applications, including medical applications.

  • Reviews in Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine
    Formerly titled the Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, this reference work covers both the molecular and cellular basis of life and medicine.
    [Once connected, from the left-hand side menu under FIND ARTICLES, select either "Articles by Title" or "Table of Contents." Or over on the right-hand side of the page, click on where it says "Search in this Book" to get to a new page with a search box for searching the encyclopedia by keywords.]

  • Encyclopedia of Materials Science & Technology
    Eleven-volume encyclopedia providing comprehensive coverage of topics in materials science and technology with a particular focus on functional phenomena, structural phenomena, fundamental core theory, structural materials, polymers and materials chemistry, and functional materials.

  • Comprehensive Nanoscience and Technology
    Five-volume encyclopedia focusing on the major classes of nanomaterials in terms of their synthesis, structure, and applications.

Selected Online Handbooks

Below is just a small selection of books and handbooks we have available electronically. Please also use the UB Libraries "Everything" Search to search our entire collection of print and electronic book resources.
 

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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.

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