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Recommended Reference Sources

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Call Number: TP9 .K54 2004 (EBOOK)
Written by prominent scholars from industry and academia, the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology presents a wide scope of articles on chemical substances, including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field.
Environmental Engineering Dictionary by Frank R. Spellman
Call Number: TD9 .S64 2018
This 5th edition provides a comprehensive reference for hundreds of environmental engineering terms used in the field. It includes terms relating to pollution control technologies, monitoring, risk assessment, sampling and analysis, quality control, and permitting.
Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology by Bharat Bhushan (Editor)
Call Number: T174.7 .S67 2017
"The strong point is its focus on many of the practical aspects of nanotechnology... Anyone working in or learning about the field of nanotechnology would find this and excellent working handbook."
Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards by Peter Urben (Editor)
Call Number: T55.3.H3 B73 2017
This 8th edition presents the latest updates on the unexpected, but predictable, loss of containment and explosion hazards from chemicals and their admixtures and actual accidents.

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U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for Department of Energy (DOE) science, technology, and engineering research and development information.
From the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), OSTI.GOV makes discoverable decades of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia.

Subjects covered include biology and medicine, fission and nuclear technologies, national defense, chemistry, fossil fuels, physics, energy storage, geosciences, power generation and distribution, engineering, renewable energy sources, mathematics and computing, and environmental sciences.

IQS Directory
This free site provides a comprehensive listing of manufacturers and suppliers serving major segments of the OEM industrial manufacturing marketplace across the United States and Canada. Industrial engineers and buyers rely on IQS Directory to specify products within a series of categories and buy products directly from manufacturers.
Engineering Commons
An open access repository of 150K+ resources created by scholars and made available through various universities.

United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) gives access to full-text copies of US patents since 1976.
USPTO consists of information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant pattents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Patents from 1976 to the present offer full seachable text.

Also use Patent Lens for patents created in Europe and Australia as well as the US. The PDF format of patents cannot easily be printed or downloaded from the USPTO database. We recommend you do most of your searching in Patent Lens.