Biomedical Informatics and Engineering

Starting your Research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Recommended Books:

Hancock, J. M., & Zvelebil, M. J. (Eds.) (2004). Dictionary of bioinformatics and computational biology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Liss.	Berman, J. J. (2007). Biomedical informatics. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Ghista, D. N. (2009). Applied biomedical engineering mechanics. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.	Hersh, W. R. (2009). Information retrieval: A health and biomedical perspective. New York: Springer.

A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Bioinformatics	Biomechanics	Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Informatics	Biotechnology Research	Computational biology
Diagnostic imaging	Ergonomics	Human mechanics
Human engineering	Incontinence Engineering	Medical Engineering
Ultrasonics	Medical Informatics

Search OPAC now

Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive

• Health Source: Consumer Edition

• MAS Ultra: School Edition

• ProQuest Science Journals

• Pub Med Central

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

Association of Medical and Bio-Informatics Singapore - AMBIS is a national member of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), a member of the Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) and a regional affiliate of the International Society for Computational Biology. Look into their website to see professional developments within this developing field in Singapore.

Medical Tribune - Read articles from this periodical online, as well as keep track of events with the Event Calender.

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