Bme451 Fall07 Final

Selected Library Resources forBiomedical Microdevices Research

Sara TompsonScience & Engineering Library Team Leader,

[email protected], 740-8700

For Professor Ellis Meng’s BME 451 class

“Fundamentals of Biomedical Microdevices” Fall 2007

BME 451 Fall07 Tompson for Meng 2

Interdisciplinary endeavors require thoughtful literature research strategies!• Resources in literature of more than one

discipline• Terminology can vary by discipline• May not have any core texts

At a high topical level, what would you say are the main disciplines used in this course?

Biomedical Microdevices: Interdisciplinary


Berry & Williamson in Ackerson say, for “nanotechnology”:

IOP’s Nanotechnology first journal (field development landmark) – 1990

Best databases (all at USC!): Science Citation Index (in Web of Knowledge), * Compendex (in Engineering Village 2), * Inspec (in EV2), * SciFinder Scholar (requires local file download to access), PubMed.

*-ed items, PLUS Worldcat – good for conference proceedings. I’d add: IEEE Xplore!

Biomedical Microdevices: Interdisciplinary


Library of Congress “Science Tracer Bullets”:• Nanotechnology closest

-http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/nanotechnologytb.html

• National Library of Medicine’s MeSH database: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html

Anyone used either? (More for librarians, but useful to all.) Let’s take a look…

BioMEMs Topics: Interdisciplinary Guides




Highly Relevant* NANOSCIENCE* NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS* NANOSTRUCTURES* NANOTECHNOLOGYRelevant* MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS* NANOPARTICLES* NANOTUBES* NANOWIRESRelated* FULLERENES * MOLECULAR BIOLOGY* MICROELECTRONICS * SPINTRONICS* MICROSTRUCTURE* ULTRASTRUCTURE (BIOLOGY)

Nanotechnology LC Subject Headings: Use for HOMER, others’ book catalogs


• Metal Nanoparticles• Metal Nanocrystals….• Microarray Analysis• Nanoarray Analytical Devices….• Nanoarchaeota• Nanoarchaeum• Nanocapsules• Nanotubes• Nanorods• Nanospheres….• Nanoviridae• Nanovirus• Nanowires• Pregnanolone FALSE HIT….• BCTP 401 nanoemulsion

MeSH Nano Terms Partial List (Use for PubMed, Medline, some catalogs)


Relevant Nanotech Journals per LC:Acta MaterialiaAdvanced Materials for Optics and Electronics (BACKFILE)

NOW: Advanced Functional MaterialsChemical & Engineering NewsInternational Journal of NanoscienceJournal of Micromechanics and MicroengineeringJournal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (USC 2006+)Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. B Microelectronics and

Nanometer Structures: Processing, Measurement, and PhenomenaLab on a ChipNano LettersNanotechnologyPhysica. E, Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures Precision Engineering (SciDir - not currently at USC)Scripta MaterialiaSingle Molecules (NOW part of ChemPhysChem)Supramolecular Science (NOW part of Materials Science and

Engineering: C)

Have you used any??


USC: http://www.usc.edu/ejournalsatoz• Searches all “periodicals,” so online conference proceedings included.

•Active links to journals; ISSN (e.g. 1750-0443) and subscribed range included.

•Here are titles with “nano” as a separate word: Biomedical Imaging: From Nano To Macro, 2006 3rd IEEE Intl Symp on Extreme Nano.com MEMS, NANO and Smart Systems, Int'l Conference on Micro & nano letters Nano letters Nano/Bio Convergence News Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, 2006 1st IEEE Intl Conf on Nano-Networks & Wkshps, 2006 1st Intl Conf on Synthesis and reactivity in inorganic, metal-organic, and nano-metal chemistry


USC: http://www.usc.edu/ejournalsatozHere are titles including the term “nanotechnology”:E-journal of surface science and nanotechnologyIEEE transactions on nanotechnologyInternet journal of nanotechnology Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnologyMicro engineering and nanotechnology news Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference (MNC), Int'l Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2006 Intl Conf on Nanotechnology Nanotechnology and Quantum Computing (Ref. No. 2000/140), IEE Seminar on Nanotechnology law & business Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC), IEEE Nanotechnology, 2006 IEEE Conf on Proceedings of the ... IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology


Final points on ejournalsatoz•“ Browse ejournals by subject”

•Closest = “Engineering & Applied Sciences: Mechanical Engineering: Bioengineering”:

http://zb5lh7ed7a.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=ZB5LH7ED7A&N=100&S=SC&C=TE0298

•How to access from USC Libraries page…Anyone Know?!




USC Libraries “Scholars Portal”• Webfeat

“federated search”

• Not normally recommended, too many false hits, not very granular search

• HOWEVER… good for inter-disciplinary resource pointers


• STILL must go down and DESELECT catalogs (HELIX, HOMER, USC Advocat)


Scholars Portal MEMS Surgery Results

ebrary hidden treasures!

SP useful for knowing WHERE to do a more detailed search


ebrary Results: Citation done for you!“Advances in microsensors and bioMEMS are likely to yield great

dividends. Current triaxial accelerometers and micropressure transducers are small enough and low-power enough to be implanted in the body.”

National Academy of Engineering Staff. Seventh Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering. Washington, DC, USA: National Academies Press, 2002. p 97. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uscisd/Doc?id=10038538&ppg=107

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uscisd/Doc?id=10038538&ppg=107


Back to Databases:Access to Articles, Proceedings

• Remember, Ackerson text said: Science Citation Index, Compendex, Inspec, SciFinder Scholar, PubMed. I added IEEE Xplore.

• What database platforms/suites include these?• Scholars Portal results for MEMS surgery said: ebrary (NOTE some false hits,

though); Inspec (46 hits), ProQuest Research Library Complete (34), IEEE Explore (23), JSTOR (23), Web of Science Science Citation Index Expanded (20).

• From what point can you access all of these?• Let’s finish up by looking at Inspec, Xplore and Medline (subscription version

of?...)


Defaults to both, so unclick as needed


Try BOTH fulltext links


ALL but books at USC!


NOTE: Xplore and OVID (next slides) have simultaneous user limits – remember to log out! (EV2-Inspec & Compendex, ProQuest and Web of Science do NOT have limits – but DO still logout please).


Option 2 of Medline recommended; also, CINAHL good for social aspects.


MeSH default is ON; HSC librarians recommend on, so you use best retrieval vocabulary.

Useful to “explode” the “trees” in the MeSH hierarchy to get the TOTALLY BEST search terms. I usually ALSO include the “X as keyword” search option.


Try BOTH fulltext link options


Selected Library Resources forBiomedical Microdevices Research: RECAP

What are a few good search terms for research for this course?

What are some of the best databases to use to access the interdisciplinary literature useful for this course?

Any questions for me??

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