You may want to visit the Biomedical Engineering Research Guide. These extracted resources are likely to be helpful:
CINAHL Complete - Current Fulltext Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature - The Nursing literature is important in the clinical support for cancer patients.
Compendex Compendex is the Engineering Index & Abstracts database - use the UC eLinks to determine if the journal article is available - read the abstract first
Annual Reviews - This list of journals includes the Annual Review of Immunology, Biochemistry and 30 other titles. The entire database can be searched together or each titles can be searched separately.BCC Research - Another Marketing Reports database. No need to sign in, just use the VPN when off-campus.
Remember, Technical Standards are an established norm or requirement. It is usually a formal document that establishes uniform engineering or technical criteria, methods, processes and practices. The documents prepared by a professional group or committee which are believed to be good and proper engineering practices and which contain mandatory requirements. The contain “how to” instructions for designers, manufacturers, and users. Standards promote safety, reliability, productivity, and efficiency in almost every industry that relies on engineering components or equipment. Standards can run from a few paragraphs to hundreds of pages, and are written by experts with knowledge and expertise in a particular field who sit on many committees.
You will have to use standards from different sources:
1. Class related Standards are in ANSI Standards Connect - you will find ISO 14971, 2d ed, 2007, Medical Devices there and others; click on View My Documents and then scroll through the documents and click on View. You can search the document for specific terms or coverage by entering "CTRL F"
2. Other COVID related documents are also available from other sources.
2. ASTM Standards & Engineering Digital Library - to be searched - for F04.15
3. Check in your Canvas source for other standards from ANSI
For additional information about standards and specifications, please consult Standards Guide or contact Engineering Librarian
For visual images you may want to consult sources such as the following sources or consult the Visual Arts: Images Resource Guide and make sure that you have proper rights to use or copy images - that they are Open Access or not copyrighted::
For background information, the Patent FAQ may answer some basic questions. Use a Patent Glossary if you need help with definitions. Patents appear to be outlined with numbers - these are Standard Field Codes or "INID codes" for international agreed numbers for the identification of bibliographic data and are consistent with patents from around the world. A review of how to read a patent will be helpful.
PATENT RESOURCES - the following sources are highly recommended but for additional direction, please consult the Subject Guide for Patents - you will be restricting your searches to US Patents and there is a box there for how to read & understand a patent. When using some of the following databases, you may find some references to European patents (EP#) - sometimes US companies, like Medtronics register for foreign patents hoping that it will take less time to successfully be awarded the patent. Opening up the illustrations or drawings in some patent databases may require special TIFF software - record the patent # and search in another database or follow instructions on how to download special TIFF software.