Chemical Engineering Research Guide

Background Info

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia.gif focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Additionally, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed.

CHEMLIBnetBASE.gif contains over 500 books published by CRC on all aspects of chemistry.

Access Science.jpg contains articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms and research updates from McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology. Also contains biographies of over 2,000 scientists, the lastest scientifc news, image galleries, flash animations, videos, and podcasts.

Encyclopedia of Energy


Best Databases for Journal Articles

SciFinder Scholar is the most comprehensive index of chemical literature.  After you connect to the CITRIX web interface, open the Academic Applications folder and then the Library folder.  Then double-click on SciFinder Scholar.

Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with over 9 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1969.

Science Citation Index allows you to identify the most cited articles from a large number of journals in all areas of science.  You can look up articles that you have to find the articles that cite the ones you have.

ScienceDirect contains Chemical Engineering: Research and Design and many other journals.


Specialized Databases

Pollution Abstracts

Reaxys

IEEE

Agricola

 

 


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