Academic Department
Biomedical Engineering Department
(847) 491-5635
nu-bme@northwestern.edu
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Key Resources
- CompendexComprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1884.
- InspecProvides abstracts and indexing to scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing and production engineering.
- Web of Science wtih Conference ProceedingsSearches over 10,000 journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. Coverage includes science and engineering.
- PubMedA service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948.
- Applied Science & Technology IndexIndexes articles, product evaluations, and book reviews in over 390 leading English-language periodicals including trade and industrial publications, journals of professional and learned societies, and specialized subject periodicals.
The Essentials
Finding Literature:
PubMed (Special URL that adds "FindIt@NU" buttons)
Web of Science (Classic Citation Index for Finding Journal Literature; Broad Coverage of the Sciences)
Scopus (Citation Index with Advanced Search Features and Broad Coverage of the Sciences)
Faculty of 1000 (Secondary Peer Review and Literature Finding Tool)
Lab Protocols:
JoVE (Video Protocols)
Citation and PDF Management:
EndNote (Citation Management Software)
NU Support: http://libguides.northwestern.edu/endnote
Endnote Web (Web-based Citation Management Software, Syncs with Endnote)
Zotero (Citation Manaagement Software)
NU Support: http://libguides.northwestern.edu/zotero
ReadCube (Literature Searching and PDF Management Platform)
Mendeley (Social PDF Management Software)
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