Indexes: (search for articles/reports)

1. Try Search360 (Search for articles)
   

   Find more Search360 subjects.

2. Academic search premier
     Examples:
   
   • stem cells IN SU SUBJECT TERMS AND research IN SU SUBJECT TERMS AND (controversy OR challenge OR debate OR future) IN DEFAULT FIELDS
   • tissue engineering IN SU SUBJECT TERMS AND (introduction OR review OR trend*) IN DEFAULT FIELDS
   • robot* IN SU SUBJECT TERMS AND medic* IN SU SUBJECT TERMS AND (scientific american OR technology review OR american scientist) IN SO JOURNAL NAME
3. WilsonWeb
   (Select the following: General Science Abstracts; The online thesaurus can help with the selection of terms.)
     Examples:
   
   • Telemedicine (sort by Peer Reviewed)
4. Compendex
   (browse or search the thesaurus for terms to use)
     Examples:
   
   • Bionics SEARCH IN Ei Main Heading AND LIMIT BY 1990-2004 AND LANGUAGE English
   • Biological organs SEARCH IN Subject/Title/Abstract AND (artificial OR prostheses) SEARCH IN Title AND LIMIT BY 1990-2004 AND LANGUAGE English
   • (Healthcare OR medical) SEARCH IN Title AND (trend* OR future OR outlook OR technolog*) SEARCH IN Title AND LIMIT BY 1990-2004 AND LANGUAGE English AND DOCUMENT TYPE Journal article
5. IEEE Xplore
     Examples: (using basic search)
   
   • Robot* AND medic* (limit to INDEX TERMS and IEEE/IEE Journals)
   • tissue engineering<in>de
6. Inspec
   (Examine the controlled and uncontrolled indexing in the full record of a citation to discover more search terms. The online thesaurus can help. Want a tutorial?)
     Examples: (using advanced search)
   
   • (surgery or surgical) and robot* (Choose General Search and limit to dates 1994-2005; search for terms in Topic and limit to English and limit to Journal papers for document types)
   • medic* and virtual reality (Choose General Search and limit to dates 1994-2005; search for terms in Topic with "Title only" checked and limit to English and limit to Journal papers for document types)
7. Patents
   (Try esp@cenet and Google Patents)
     Example:
   
   • telemedicine
8. PubMed
   ( PubMed Guides, Tips, and Help
   MEDLINE via OVID and other versions of MEDLINE can also be used.
   Which MEDLINE do I use? )
     Examples:
   
   • nanotechnology or nanostructures limit to MESH Terms and english language
     (Note: notice the Reviews tab; change to Citation display and examine the MESH Terms)
   • Telemedicine limit to MESH Terms, Reviews and english language
   • Telemedicine/trends limit to MESH Terms
   • Robotics limit to english language
9. Web of Science
   (Web of Science can be used in the familiar way of keyword searching for articles, but Web of Science also provides other methods for tracking down useful articles. Want a Tutorial?)
     Example:
   
   • Click on Web of SCIENCE
   • Select Full Search
   • Select General Search
   • Enter the article title Tissue engineering of artificial organs (or The growth of tissue engineering or some other article title of a useful article) in TOPIC and search.
   • Click on the article title that is retrieved
   • Click on "Cited References" to see all the sources used to author this article.
   • Click on "Times Cited" to see who else used this article as a source.

Journals:

Sample Articles:

1. Artificial consciousness: Utopia or real possibility?
2. Artificial organs
3. Asynchronous web-based patient-centered home telemedicine system
4. A sharper picture of health
5. Biochips beyond DNA: technologies and applications (Biotechnology Annual Review, 9:1-149, 2003)
6. The Bionic Human (special issue of Science)
7. Brain-machine interfaces: computational demands and clinical needs meet basic neuroscience
8. Cellular/tissue engineering - promises and challenges
9. Controlling Robots with the Mind
10. Current Opinion on Computer-Aided Surgical Navigation and Robotics: Role in the Treatment of Sports-Related Injuries
11. The great divide - the human-machine interface. Issues in the control of prostheses, manipulators, and other human machine systems
12. Pervasive healthcare
13. RoboSurgeons
14. Robotic surgery: a current perspective
15. Smart surgical tools and augmenting devices
16. Survey of utilisation of fuzzy technology in Medicine and Healthcare
17. The Unseen Genome: Beyond DNA

Sample Books:

1. AccessScience
2. 2000-2005 world outlook for biotechnology
3. 2000-2005 world outlook for health care services
4. Artificial morality: virtuous robots for virtual games
5. Biotechnology: science, engineering, and ethical challenges for the twenty-first century
6. Cosmetic surgery: the cutting edge of commercial medicine in America
7. Intelligent robots and autonomous agents
8. Knovel online interactive books (in Engineering & Science)
9. Machines in our hearts: the cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care
10. Biomedical Device Technology : Principles And Design
11. Medical innovation at the crossroads

Websites:

1. Bioethics Information Resources
2. Biomaterials Network
3. Biomedical Engineering Network
4. Biotechnology and Health Care Ethics
5. Biotechnology Industry Organization
6. Biotechnology Institute: Student Resources
7. DOEgenomes
8. Globalspec Engineering Search Engine
9. Google
   
   
   Try this custom search into Google ...
   (search terms: medicine, medical or health* are already included)
   
   keyword 
   
   phrase 
   
   include  edu, org and gov just edu just org just gov  sites
   
   
10. Google Scholar
    
    
    Try this custom search into Google Scholar ...
    
    (searches the titles of articles)
    
    
11. Nanomedicine
12. National Center for Biotechnology Information
13. NIH
14. NSF: Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems
15. Scirus (Science-specific search engine including patents; The advanced search provides helpful limits)
16. Telemedicine information exchange