Selected Books
Why Not Better and Cheaper?: Healthcare and Innovation by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This book argues that the healthcare sector generates the wrong kind of innovation. The root causes of this innovation problem are the incentives, social norms, and competitive environment prevailing in the health sector. We can point innovation in a better direction by improving incentives, mobilizing professional norms and narratives, and altering the regulatory and competitive environment.
Biomedical Device Technology: Principles and Design by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This book focuses on the applications, functions and principles of medical devices. It is written for engineers and technologists who are interested in understanding the principles, design, and use of medical device technology.
Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Capitalizing a Cure takes readers into the struggle over a medical breakthrough to investigate the power of finance over business, biomedicine, and public health. Provocative and sobering, this book illuminates the harmful impact of allowing financial markets to determine who heals and who suffers and points to the necessary work of building more equitable futures.
Conceptual Development of Industrial Biotechnology for Commercial Production of Vaccines and Biopharmaceuticals by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This book provides insights on how to bring sustainability into biologic drug production.
BU Libraries Search
BU Libraries Search
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Finding Articles
- BU Libraries Search (BULS)To find articles in the BU Libraries Search, type keywords in search box. Then modify results by using limiters in left column under "refine my results". The BULS searches materials in different formats across many subjects.
- ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new windowContent in this database also covers over 2,400 journals and magazines, several hundred news sources, thousands of ebooks, videos and company, industry and country reports.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowThe database full text content includes investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
- Factiva This link opens in a new window
Provides worldwide full text access to local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect is a general science database that searches journal articles and book chapters in all areas of science, technology, and health. ScienceDirect also provides full text access to a number of major reference works, allows the user to create email alerts for specific journal titles, book series, or research topics, and provides access to a limited number of "pre-pub" articles (articles accepted for publication but not yet officially released).
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This database is a core general science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
- Fitch Solutions Country Industry ReportsGlobal coverage of more than 20 industries, incorporating the impact of geopolitical risks, industry trends, and new technologies. Select "search within publication" to see reports on biotechnology.
- STAT+ This link opens in a new windowSTAT+ offers original reporting and analysis of breaking news in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industry. Create an account by clicking on Subscribe and using your @bu.edu email address and a different, non-BU password.
