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Chemical Engineering Subject Guide
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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
ACS Publications (American Chemical Society)
The ACS Journal Archives provides access to 120 years of chemical research published in more than 30 ACS journals.
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Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
ASTA covers the applied and practical aspects of the sciences. It provides coverage of nearly 750 journals and contains more than 1,300,000 records.
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Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Scholar)
Chemical Abstracts provides millions of journal article references from nearly 9,500 major scientific journals worldwide and patents. "SciFinder Scholar" is custom search engine software needed to access the Chemical Abstracts database and is installed on select computers in De Vries Hall.
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E-Print Network
The E-Print Network is a vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels.
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Engineering Index (Compendex)
Engineering Index, also referred to as Compendex, is the most
comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world.
Compendex contains over 8 million records and references over 5,000
international engineering sources including journal, conference, and
trade publications.
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, presented via the Access Science website, is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 science related definitions.
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National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
The United States Department of Commerce National Technical Information Service (NTIS) serves as the largest central resource for government-funded
scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information
available today. Included are citations more than 3 million publications in more than 350 subject areas.
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PubChem
PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. PubChem is organized as three linked databases within the NCBI's Entrez information retrieval system. These are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool.
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Science Direct
Science Direct is the search engine for journals published by Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of science, technical, and medical (STM) journals. It is an excellent search engine for locating the finest scholarly and peer-reviewed ATM journals.
The Hekman Library subscribes to only a small number of citations found in this database. Interlibrary loan must be used to retrieve articles. Many of the features and services offered in this database are functional only for subscribers of Science Direct. The Hekman Library does not subscribe, so Calvin users access the site as guests.
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United States Patent & Trademark Office
The United States Patent & Trademark Office website provides free access to patent documents including full text for patent grants since 1976, full page
images since 1790, and patent applications published from March 2001 to present.
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Reference Materials
Access Science
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (the web site is called Access Science) is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 definitions.
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Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - TP9 .E685 1991
A multi-volume encyclopedia with emphasis on the application of chemistry and chemical engineering to industrially important concepts, products, processes, and uses.
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Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology - TP1110 .E53 2003
Provides information about polymers, plastics, fibers, biomaterials, elastomers, and polymerization processes.
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Engineering Handbook - TA151 .E424 1996
This handbook, actually a dictionary, includes more than 1,500 definitions and 1,000 illustrations.
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Guide to Information Sources in Engineering - T10.7 . L67 2000
Essential guide for information resources related to all engineering fields.
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Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - TP9 .E685 1991
Considered the most indispensable reference tool for any project in chemistry or chemical engineering.
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Martindale's Calculators On-line Center
Calculators for all aspects of engineering.
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, presented via the Access Science website, is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 science related definitions.
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Sax's dangerous properties of industrial materials - T55.3 .H3 L494 2000
Critical information on chemical substances, including health and safety data, regulatory standards, toxicity, and physical properites.
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Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry - QD9.15 .B43 2001
Written to introduce chemistry students to the ways chemists communicate...The book covers the most important forms of communication - textbooks, lectures, lab reports, articles, literature reviews, and oral presentations.
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Web Sources
Chemistry Central
Chemistry Central provides access to peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry, from BioMed Central - the leading biomedical open access publisher. This site features chemistry-related articles published in Chemistry Central Journal and independent journals utilizing BioMed Central's open access publishing services.
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EnergyFiles
EnergyFiles searches more than five hundred databases and Web sites containing information and resources pertaining to science and technology of interest to the Department of Energy, with an emphasis on the physical sciences.
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GlobalSpec: The Engineering Search Engine
GlobalSpec was founded in 1996 for engineers by engineers and leveraged its domain expertise and deep understanding of the online behavior and complex needs of the engineering and technical community to build The Engineering Search Engine.
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INFOMINE: Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing & Math
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the college and university level.
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National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) mission is to promote the technological welfare of the nation by marshaling the knowledge and insights of eminent members of the engineering profession.
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Scirus: for scientific information only
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages
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Periodicals
ejournal locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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