There are lots of databases that contain articles about biomedical engineering, and they are all available via LibrarySearch – just click on the “Find databases” link in the left-hand menu and you will see an alphabetical list. Browse the list until you find the one you want.

The most useful databases for your subject include:

Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy Video recordings of real dissected human cadaveric specimens. The specimens have not been embalmed and therefore retain the colour, texture and mobility of the living body. The recordings show real life movement and transcripts of the audio can be printed out.

BioMed Central Open access peer-reviewed journals covering subjects such as biomedicine, materials science, engineering, mathematics and physics.

BIOSIS Citation Index Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.
Access content from journals, meetings, patents, and books from 1969 onwards.

BMJ Journals A wide range of medical journals covering a broad selection of medical specialties. The journals are peer reviewed and have international Editorial Boards to ensure global relevance.

British Standards Online (BSOL): Contains British standards and international and European standards that have been adopted as British standards.

Cochrane Library Cochrane Reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. Also provides other sources of reliable information: other systematic reviews abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials. (Guide to Cochrane Library)

Embase (OVID) EMBASE is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. (Guide to Embase)

Engineering Case Studies Online Contains a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes. At completion, the collection will contain 250 hours and 50,000 pages of quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.

Engineering Village: Search several engineering databases with multiple search options, with journals, standards, property search and materials, equations, conference proceedings, and more. (Guide to Engineering Village)

Espacenet – European Patent Office: Index to more than 120 million patent documents worldwide from 1836 onwards. Full-text access to British patents from 1859. Full-text access to patents from other countries includes US from 1836 and various starting dates for EPO, WIPO, France, Germany and Switzerland.

Europe PMC A repository, providing access to worldwide life sciences articles, books, patents and clinical guidelines. Europe PMC provides links to relevant records in databases such as Uniprot, European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), Protein Data Bank Europe (PDBE) and BioStudies.

IEL Online (IEEE Xplore) Full-text access to the entire IEEE and IET collection of journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, plus all active and historical IEEE standards.

Lens Patent Search Discovery and analytics tools on a comprehensive collection of patent literature with citation indexing.

MEDLINE A key source for biomedical literature. Contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts for 4,000+ journals.

New Scientist Provides access to the articles from this weekly international science magazine. Articles are grouped by broad field or topic, and you can browse by date or search for a specific subject. It also includes lists of jobs and careers advice information. [Access via LibrarySearch and then choose OpenAthens link on the New Scientist page].

PubMed Comprises more than 29 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.

ScienceDirect Searches across 2,500 peer-reviewed titles – or over 9.5 million articles. This is a good source for journal articles in engineering, covering biomedical engineering, medicine and dentistry, energy, and materials science.

Scopus The largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support research, including in the fields of engineering, science and technology.

SpringerProtocols 1980-2012 A large database of reproducible laboratory protocols (over 40,000) in biomedicine and life sciences, enabling users to find the right protocol for a lab set-up.

Trip Medical Database A clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

Visible Body An interactive multimedia resource containing 3D anatomy and physiology models, animations, illustrations, quizzes and more. Premium content includes a Human Anatomy Atlas, Muscle, Skeleton, Heart & Circulatory and Physiology animations modules. (Guide to Visible Body)

Wiley Online Library Searches across a multi-disciplinary collection of journals covering physical sciences, biomedical engineering, physics, mathematics and medical science.

Library Guide - Biomedical Engineering