Research Guides: Biomedical Engineering: Home

How to use this guide

This guide is for engineering graduate students beginning to write their master's theses or doctoral dissertations. You will find information about searching the engineering literature for papers on your research topic, locating journals that publish work in your research area, and locating books and other technical resources.

Visit the different pages of this guide using the tabs on the left to delve into these areas in depth.

Quick Start

A good place to begin your literature search is with a multi-disciplinary science database like Scopus.

Scopus
SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

Tip: Accessing article full-text

The library does not subscribe to every journal published. When looking at a results list within a database, look for a Get it! button with Rowan University branding to find sources of full text.

Article Databases for Biomedical Engineering

Use these subscription databases to locate published research in Biomedical Engineering. For additional options visit the Database Finder page, https://libguides.rowan.edu/az.php.

Each database has its own search engine which will generate a list of journal articles and conference proceedings on your specified topic. In most cases the full text of the article will be available through a PDF link.

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Digital Collection
Mechanical engineering journals (full text).

Full text access to journals published from 2000-present by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Compendex (Engineering Index)
Search tool for peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in Engineering. Includes many sources that are not available through Library Search.

Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world. It provides a truly holistic and global view of peer reviewed and indexed publications with over 17 million records from 73 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. Every record is carefully selected and indexed using the Engineering Index Thesaurus to ensure discovery and retrieval of engineering-specific literature that engineering students and professionals can rely on. By using Compendex, engineers can be confident information is relevant, complete, accurate and of high quality.
IEEE Xplore
Journals and conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Rowan account required.

Full text access to journals and major conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
MEDLINE (Ovid)
The OVID interface to PubMed, called MEDLINE, offers searching of medical literature combined with direct linking to the Rowan University Libraries inter-library loan system for requesting articles. Rowan account required.

Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is recognized as a source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE provides information from the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, as well as coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
Science Direct
Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the sciences.

ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books. The database covers the Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities.
Scopus
SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.
SPORTDiscus
Journal and news articles on sport & exercise science, physical education, and related areas.

Provides access to articles on sport & exercise science, sport management, physical education, physical, occupational & recreational therapy, kinesiology and human movement studies, sport psychology, leisure studies, and sport law. Full-text articles dating back to 1985.
Web of Science
Full text database of scientific journal articles with data on who has cited them.

Web of Science® provides immediate data on who has cited research papers, covering over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900.

Biomedical Engineering

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Tip: Accessing article full-text

Article Databases for Biomedical Engineering