Databases/Article Indexes for Chemical Engineering


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Contains full text articles for the more than 30 American Chemical Society journals and magazines.
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Chemical Abstracts (Scifinder Scholar Web Version)
1967-current

4 concurrent users maximum. Password Accessible
Web Search interface for access to Chemical Abstracts online. CAS Scifinder Scholar is also available in a downloadable version here. Chemical Abstracts covers the published scientific research in chemistry, and offers searching by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Now includes the Substructure Module (SSM).
 
CRC Handbooks in chemistry.
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ChemVillage
Dates vary
Search environment for Chimica, Beilstein Abstracts, chemical news, patents, and selected CRC Press handbooks.
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Ei Compendex
1884-current
Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database with over eight million summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings, dating from 1884 forward.
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Search environment for Ei Compendex and Ei Inspec, also covering engineering websites, CRC Handbooks, patents, and industry standards.
 
Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
85th edition , 2004-2005
Online equivalent of the 84rd edition of this print classic.
 
Database of some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings.
 
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
1973-current

Open Access
A searchable database for information about chemicals and chemical toxicity.
 
An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. he Merck Index is a world renowned, authoritative handbook of chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical information that contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions and almost 1000 retired monographs. Provided by Knovel.
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CRC Encyclopedias and Handbooks covering polymer information .
 
Referex Engineering is a collection of over 300 engineering eBooks in 3 distinct collections.
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Scifinder Scholar
1967-current

4 concurrent users maximum;Users must be on campus to download and access SciFinder Scholar. If you are off campus, and would like to download this resource, you may do so through Drexel's Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Search interface for access to Chemical Abstracts online. Scifinder Scholar is now also available in a web version here. Chemical Abstracts covers the published scientific research in chemistry, and offers searching by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Now includes the Substructure Module (SSM).
Recommended resource
Scifinder Scholar Web Version (NEW!)

4 concurrent user limit. Password accessible.
SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! Includes access to current, high-quality scientific information and capabilities for exploring substructures and reactions. The web version allows for access to Scifinder without any software downloading. Also available in a downloadable version here
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Contains nearly 1000 major articles, written by some 3,000 authors who are experts in their fields and affiliated to leading chemical companies or research institutes.

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