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Course Reserves are materials that are on reserve (by instructor request) for specific courses and available for a limited loan period, usually for 2 hours at a time, to ensure that they're available for as many students as possible.
Interlibrary Loan, often referred to as ILL, can help obtain materials not owned by Purdue Libraries. Visit the ILL website to submit a request or contact them at ill@purdue.edu or (765) 494-2800
Provides access to citations from biomedical literature indexed by the National Library of Medicine. It also access and links to the other Entrez molecular biology resources. Journal articles will link to Purdue Libraries holdings. Also called Medline.
Enables you to search PubMed and set up a NCBI Account. You may customize your preferences, save searches, and create your own collections. You may set preferences for Outside Tool (Purdue University Libaries) and customize Results Display as needed..
Indexes peer reviewed journals from 5,000 international publishers. It supports research needs of many disciplines including engineering, science, technology, and medicine. This is a new source in 2012 and permits downloads of many records. It does not cover as many years as Web of Science.
Is a free service to many online journals and books. Since Purdue pays subscriptions to many online journals, setup your Library Links for Purdue University and Open World Cat - Library Search.
Uses an app to browse thousands of journals on an Ipad or Andoid Tablet. The linked URL goes to a library guide which gets you started. BrowZine is organized by topic and title. It permits you to save titles on "My Bookshelf" and download journal articles to your device or Drop Box. Most journals have issues back to 2005. A video is attached to this record. Some society publishers are not well represented.
Provides comprehensive coverage of research in agriculture, biology, veterinary medicine and related fields. Contains a subsection of biomedical engineering.
Contains the best collection of references to journals in biological and and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.
Brings together the majority of the leading materials science databases, with specialist content on materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering application.
