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Medical Informatics Resources

Use this Pathfinder to find Medical Informatics Resources available through the MSOE Library.

How do I find print books at the MSOE Library?

  • In the Library Catalog click the SEARCH tab. Search by Title, Author, ISBN, etc.  Try the General Keyword Search when looking for items on a particular subject.  Book chapter titles are included in this search.

How do I find electronic books available through the MSOE Library?

How do I find print journals at the MSOE Library?

Where can I find articles on topics in medical informatics?

  • The library has many databases that may help you. To access these databases go to the Articles and Databases List. Our databases are arranged alphabetically, by subject and by academic major.
  • Because medical informatics encompasses business, applied science and medical applications, specialized library databases covering each of the areas of knowledge must be searched.

Selected Topical Bibliographic and Full-Text Databases

Business

  • ABI/Inform Global provides information on advertising, economics, human resources, finance, marketing, computers and more. This database indexes 3,730 business and management journals, magazines, and other serial publications, with more than 2,670 available in full text. It also includes 18,000+ dissertations/theses and 5,200+ business cases.
  • Business Source Complete offers access to approximately 3,735 journal titles featuring full-text coverage; of this 3,735, a total of 1,985 are peer reviewed journals.

    In addition to journal articles, this database makes available non-journal content, including financial data, book monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, industry reports, economic reports, marketing reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, videos of faculty seminars from Harvard University (including transcripts), and executive interviews.

Science & Technology

  • ScienceDirect (College Edition) offers 1900+ full-text journals on topics in the health, life and physical sciences.
  • EI Compendex is an engineering abstract database providing citations and summaries of articles from 5,600 journals, conferences, proceedings and reports. This database does not provide full-text access.

    Compendex Quick Facts:
    • Over 14.3 million records from 1970-present
    • 190 engineering disciplines covered
    • Publications from over 65 countries
    • Over 1 million records added annually
    • Over 6,500 journals and conference proceedings indexed annually
    • Updated weekly

    For more help with using EI Compendex, view their training videos and their "Tips and Tricks" page.

  • Applied Science & Technology Full Text™ contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English–language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Full text of articles is available from more than 220 periodicals dating back to 1997. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.
  • ProQuest Science Journals is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1,030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s.
  • Proquest SciTech Collection provides access to literature on natural sciences, engineering and technology. Some of the topics covered in this database include materials science, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, environmental science, computer science, and earth science. It fully incorporates the ProQuest Natural Science Collection and the ProQuest Technology Collection.
  • IEEE Xplore is a database from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers providing full-text articles and journals, transactions, letters, magazines and conference proceedings.
  • ACM Digital Library (DL) is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records in existence today covering the fields of computing and information technology. The full-text database includes the complete collection of ACM's publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles and currently consists of:

    • 340,000 Full-text articles
    • 2.0+ Million pages of full-text articles
    • 20,000+ New full-text articles added each year
    • 44+ High impact journals with 2-3 new journals being launched each year
    • 275+ Conference proceedings titles added each year
    • 2,000+ Proceedings volumes
    • 8 Magazines (including the flagship Communications of the ACM, the most heavily cited publication in the field of computing according to Thomas-Reuters)
    • 37 Technical newsletters from ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
    • 4,600+ Video files
    • 455 Audio files

    In addition to the full-text database, the ACM Digital Library is heavily integrated with and includes unrestricted access to the Guide to Computing Literature bibliography.

    For more on using the ACM Digital Library please view their training videos and their search tools page.

Medical

  • CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL®

    The database also provides full text for more than 275 books/monographs. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

    CINAHL Plus with Full Text also provides indexing for more than 4,600 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 2.8 million records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,350 journals are also included.
  • Health Source: Nursing⁄Academic provides 550+ full-text journals in the medical disciplines.
  • Nursing Resource Center & Allied Health provides more than 1,000 full-text journals. View this page for additional information.

You can also search for electronic journals by title on the Electronic Journals A-Z list.

 

How can I get journal articles or books not available through the Library?

  • The MSOE Library provides free interlibrary loan services for articles and books not available from MSOE or MCW. Check out Borrow From Other Libraries for information on how to request items.
  • You can also use ClioWeb, our interlibrary loan interface which allows you to place requests, check the status of requests, and keep track of due dates on interlibrary loan materials.

    Click here to login into ClioWeb. Use your MSOE username and password for the login.
  • Another option is to request an InfoPass at the Circulation Desk. This pass can be taken to a lending library and used to check out items we do not have. To see which libraries in the area own a specific title, search WISCAT (The WISconsin CATalog). "Locations" lists call numbers and lending library information needed for InfoPass.

 

To access these databases from off-campus simply click on the direct link to the database. When promoted input your MSOE username and password. Make sure you are not logged into MyMSOE, inside.msoe.edu, or the VPN when accessing databases off campus.

Need Help with off-campus access? Click Here for Instructions.

 

For further assistance with finding MI resources contact:


Gary Shimek, Director of the Library
L 202
Phone: 414-277-7181
Email: shimek@msoe.edu