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Welcome!

Welcome to the ME 477/577 guide covering library resources that help you find information on biomaterials. Below you will find information on the Library's Articles and Databases. The left navigation will lead you to additional resources that you might find helpful for this assignment.

Article Databases

Periodical Articles and Conference Papers
New developments and current research are often first presented as conference papers and/or periodical articles. The following are indexes, abstracts or full-text repositories which access this literature and cover aspects of biomaterials. For tips on searching for article reviews, click on the info icon (in some browsers, this will display a more link).

Compendex and INSPEC (1896-current)
Both indexes are good sources for current and past research.

INSPEC covers over 4000 serials on topics in electrical engineering, physics, computers and control, and manufacturing. Although periodical articles and conference papers (1896-current) are the primary materials covered, some books, dissertations and reports are also included.

Compendex covers periodical articles and conference papers for all engineering disciplines, from 1969-current. Over 5000 serials are included.
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Compendex, INSPEC and GEOBASE are searched jointly on the Engineering Village Platform. To search only one of the databases, on the advanced search page, remove the check in the box to the left of the database you do not wish to search by clicking on the box. The check mark will be removed and that database will not be searched.

To limit to Reviews: Using the QuickSearch interface, options for limiting your search are below the search text boxes. First, uncheck the box on the left of GEOBASE. From the "Treatment Types" limit box, choose "General Review". If you then uncheck INSPEC (leaving only Compendex checked), an additional treatment type of "literature review" is available. If you uncheck Compendex so that only INSPEC is checked, INSPEC has an additional treatment type of "Bibliography" that might prove useful.

GEOBASE (1980-current) covers journal articles, conference papers, reports and books in geography, geology and ecology. Over 2000 journals are covered.

Compendex has a print version, ENGINEERING INDEX, (1959-2000), located at TA1 .E5.
Medline (1965-current)
This index is the largest, most comprehensive index covering biomedical topics, with an emphasis on clinical medicine. Journals covering optometry and dentistry are also included.
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The database is available from three vendors; PubMed has the same content as Medline, plus some newer material not yet indexed, and a few unique titles. To limit to Reviews: In the Ebsco version, check the "Review Articles" box in the limit search options below the text search box. In the FirstSearch version, in one of the lines of paired search boxes, type review in the left text box and from the drop-down menu in the right box, select "Article Type Phrase".
SciFinder Scholar (1907-current)
The premier chemistry database, this index is especially useful if you are searching for specific substances. To access: Click on SciFinder Scholar, then enter your Broncoweb username and password. First time users will need to register; once registered use the click "here" link to get to the login screen. The information screen also has links to SciFinder Mobile.
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To limit to Reviews: On the Explore References search page, click the box to the left of "Review" in the Document Type(s) category (below the blue area that contains search text box).
Web of Science (1900-current)
This multi-disciplinary index includes article information from approximately 8,500 journals in sciences, engineering, social sciences, arts and humanities. A key feature of this index is the cited reference search, which searches for the articles that have cited a particular author’s work, or a specific article.
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To limit to Reviews: On one of the lines of paired boxes, choose "Document Type" from the drop-down menu on the right. This brings up selections in the box to the left; select "Review".

Additional Article Databases

To access additional article databases, or to access these through the Library's main article databases page:

Go to the Library's home page, http://library.boisestate.edu,
Click the Articles and Databases tab,
Click on the first letter of the article database name (B for BIOSIS),
Click on the article database name.