Biomaterials is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the science and clinical application of biomaterials. The scope of the journal covers the wide range of physical, biological and chemical sciences that underpin the design of biomaterials and the clinical disciplines in which they are used. These sciences include polymer synthesis and characterization, drug and gene vector design, the biology of the host response, immunology and toxicology and self assembly at the nanoscale. Clinical applications include the therapies of medical technology and regenerative medicine in all clinical disciplines, and diagnostic systems that reply on innovative contrast and sensing agents.

Biomaterials has an impact factor of 7.604 and the 5- year impact factor is 8.496. Users can access this journal through MSKsearch on the Library’s website or through the Library’s catalog, Tri-Cat.

The Library has recently added a metasearch engine, Ixquick to the Databases A-Z list on the Library Website. Ixquick is committed to protect the privacy of its user community by promising not to store user’s personal information. It does not collect IP addresses nor any search terms or phrases. It does not use any identifying cookies as well. The only information Ixquick records is an aggregate total of how many searches are performed on the website each day.

When you search with Ixquick search engine, you are searching many popular search engines simultaneously and anonymously. It ranks search results by a star system. An Ixquick result is awarded one star () for every search engine that chooses it as one of the ten best results for your search. So a five star () result means that five search engines agreed on the result. Phone numbers and addresses can be found via ixquick’s International Phone directory and the web can be searched in 18 different languages.

Users can access Ixquick through MSKsearch on the Library’s Website or through the Library’s catalog, Tri-Cat.

Springer announced that its SpringerPlus journal has passed an important milestone – more than 1,000 submissions by authors wishing to be published in the journal. SpringerPlus is published under the SpringerOpen brand, and is an interdisciplinary, fully open access (OA) publication.

First launched in January of 2012, SpringerPlus is a peer-reviewed, open access journal with a broad interdisciplinary approach covering all areas of science, technology, engineering, medicine, the humanities and social sciences. All submissions are peer-reviewed with a singular focus on the scientific quality of the manuscript, rather than its fit with any one discipline, journal or editorial direction. SpringerPlus promises easy submission for authors and efficient publication processes – very short time between acceptance and publication.

SpringerPlus is now indexed by PubMed Central and Scopus®. Users can access the journal through MSKsearch on the Library’s Website or through the Library’s catalog, Tri-Cat.