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Great Internet Resources

• Chemical Engineering
• Materials & Properties & Data Sheets
• Fluid Mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• Periodic Tables
• Chemical Suppliers, Equipment & Industry

Great Library Resources

• Find Journal Articles, more (databases)
• Guides to Chemical Engineering Research
• Handbooks, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and More
• Frequently Cited Journals & Trade Journals
• Societies & Organizations
• Print Indexes
• Need Help?

Great Internet Resources

Chemical Engineering
ChemFinder
ChemFinder provides free searching including Chemical Structures (2D structures, 3D models), physical properties (MP, BP, CAS RN, etc.), and links to other web sites will information about your compound.

Cheresources.com: Online Chemical Engineering Information
Find articles, newsletters, message boards, free software, and links about chemical Engineering.  Some content may not be available.

Chemistry Index: FU Berlin
The web site from a University in Germany links to both English and German web sites about many aspects of Chemistry including general chemistry, safety, magnetic resonance, and more.

How to Find out: Chemical and Process Engineering
This guide to researching the chemical literature is from Heriot Watt University in Scotland.

International Directory of Chemical Engineering URLs
Use this web guide to find links to chemical information from across the globe.  Including newsgroups, companies, software products and suppliers, books and journals and more.

Chemistry Links for Chemists
This site is part of the WWW Virtual Library and was created by the University of Liverpool, Department of Chemistry.  Find an extensive list of links to companies, chemical literature, specific chemistry topics, and more. Many of the links are from the UK.

Fundamental Physical Constants
This site lists over 30 constants is from the Institute of Chemistry at FU Berlin.

History of Chemical Engineering
Interested in the story of Chemical Engineering?  Find out about the origins of the discipline, the scientists and engineers who made it all possible. Use the Table of Contents to navigate.  Be sure to check out the Timeline and Bibliography.

Materials & Properties & Data Sheets (see CSULB Library Chemistry Research Guide)

10 Easy Tips for Finding Property Data
This web site from Arizona State University gives easy to follow and concise tips to find property data.  The CSULB library has access to most of the resources suggested.
Also see Index to Physical, Chemical and Other Property Data (Look up any books in COAST to check the location in our library)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Data Gateway
This government agency, part of the Department of Commerce, has many excellent free web resources:
Chemistry WebBook, Property Search, Substance Name Search

MatWeb: Material Property Data
MatWeb has a free searchable database of 40,000 metals, plastics, composites and ceramics data sheets.  Registration is required (either free or fee) to use advanced features.

IRIS: Integrated Risk Information Systems
"IRIS is a database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment." IRIS is produced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
"The Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database the contains information on toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities reported annually by certain covered industry groups as well as federal facilities."

ToxNet and ChemIDPlus from the National Library of Medicine
Search a "cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas."

PGM Database
This resource "is a collection of published and unpublished data defining the physical properties and characteristics of platinum groups metal and their alloys."

PAN Pesticides Database                                                                                                                                                                                                        Find current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides

SOLV-DB
This website from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences will "help you find a wide variety of solvents quickly and easily."

Hazardous Chemical Database
"This database will allow the user to retrieve information for any of 23,495 hazardous chemicals or 'generic' entries based on a keyword search.  Potential keywords include names, formula and registry numbers (CAS, DOT, RTECS, EINECS, Beilstein, Merck, and EPA)." This site if from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Akron.

Material Safety Data Sheets                                                                                                          top

Where to find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet
Use this site to find material safety data sheets with "melting point, boiling point, flash point, toxicity, health effects, first aid, reactivity, storage, disposal, protective equipment, and spill/leak procedures."
Also try CCOHS MSDS Database,  MSDS Search, MSDS Provider (if you know manufacturer), MSDS Xchange (if you know manufacturer)

Household Products Database
"This database links of 4,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by manufacturers and allows scientists...to research products based on chemical ingredients."

IRIS: Integrated Risk Information System
This database from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) "is a database of human health effects that many result from exposure to various substances found in the environment."

Scorecard

Scorecard is a resource for information about pollution problems and toxic chemicals.

Fluid Mechanics

Computational Fluid Dynamics
Find web sites, books, jobs and discussion forums about CFD.

Fluid Flow Calculations created by Ken Edwards of LMNO Engineering.
Find calculations for pressurized conduits, open channels, hydrology and groundwater and more.

Fluid Mechanics and Dynamics
Web site with links to sites about companies, computational, conferences, galleries, people, research groups, software and more.

eFluids
"eFluids is a specialty web portal designed to serve as a one-stop web information resources for anyone working in the areas of flow engineering, fluid mechanics research, education and directly related topics."

Fluid Mechanics.net
Explore this site by Professor M.S. Cramer at Virginia Tech including tutorials and more.

Thermodynamics

Expert System for Thermodynamics
"A Visual Environment to solve thermo problems, pursue what-if scenarios, perform numerical experiments, and engage in life-long learning."

ThermoDex: An Index of Selected Thermodynamic Data Handbooks
"You can enter both a type of compound and a property, and ThermoDex will return a list of and books that might contain this data.  Note: Large data compilations (such as Beilstein, Landolt-Bornstein), online datafiles, and the standard one-volume handbooks (such as the CRC) are not indexed in ThermoDex, and should be checked separately."

Heat and Thermodynamics from HyperPhysics Concepts
Search through different subjects and connect to textbook chapters and information.

Periodic Tables

WebElements Periodic Table

Periodic Table of the Elements from Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division

Chemicool Periodic Table

Chemical Suppliers & Equipment & Industry

Chemical Buyers Directory
Search this database "of purchasing information for chemicals and chemical services."

Chemical Equipment
Search databases of thousands suppliers or products

Chemical Suppliers Directory
Provides its visitors with comprehensive information about suppliers of products and services for drug discovery industry over the internet

LabGuide Online by American Chemical Society
"The most comprehensive online source for analytical instruments, laboratory products, chemicals, equipment, services and supplies."

ChemIndustry
"Approximately 70,000 links to chemical manufacturers, equipment, software, industry services, resources, organizations, academic institutes and events."

ChemSources
"Find rare or hard-to-find chemicals, thousands of chemical manufacturer and distributor catalogs worldwide" and much more

Grainger
Explore their web sites and search a huge industrial catalog                                              top

Great Library Resources

Find Journal articles with databases (How do I search for journal articles?)
Science Direct (instructions)
  --Search full text database
  --latest 5 years to present
Compendex (instructions)
    --Search over 7 million citations
    --1969 to present
Environmental Science and Pollution Management (instructions)
  --Search 4,000 multidisciplinary journals
  --1981 to present
Academic Search Elite (instructions)
 --Search 3,000 multidisciplinary journals, popular magazines, and newspapers
 --1985 to present
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts (instructions)
  --Search over 1 million citations about applied technologies
  --1983 to present
American Chemical Society Web Editions (instructions)
 --Search the full text of 30 ACS journals
 --1987 to present
Web of Science (instructions)
  --Use Cited Reference search to see who is citing a specific author or paper
  --1996 to present
Proceedings First
  --Search for conference proceedings
  --1993 to present
Thomas Register of American Manufactures (instructions)
  --Search for products, companies, and brands manufactured in the United States and Canada
  --Current information

Guides to Chemical Engineering Research

• How to Find Chemical Information: A Guide for Practicing Chemists, Educators, and Students by Robert Maizell (4th floor QD 8.5.M34 1998)
• Chemical Information Sources by Gary Wiggins (4th floor QD 8.5W54 1991)
• Guide to Information Sources in Engineering by Charles Lord (1st Floor Ref T10.7.L67 2000)
• Information Sources in Engineering edited by L. Anthony (4th floor T 10.7.I54 1985)
• Information Sources in Chemistry edited by R.T Bottle and J. Rowland (4th floor QD 8.5.I47 1993)
• Chemical Industries: Information Sources (4th floor TP 155.P37)
• Chemical Information: a Practical Guide to Utilization by Y. Wolman (4th floor QD 8.5. W64 1988)

Handbooks, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc. (How can I find more books?)

CHEMnetBASE
Search through major chemical reference works.  We do not have electronic access to the full text. 
Check COAST to see if we have the books from your search.

Frequently Cited Journals                                                                        top

This is a brief list of journals in Chemical Engineering.
Tip: Use a database to search for specific articles on your topic.

Note: Current year located on lower level and older holdings may be in storage or microfilm.  Check COAST, Journals for exact location of the year you are interested in.

Trade Journals

Use databases to search for full text trade publications such as:
Chemical Engineering in Factiva
Chemical Week in ABI/INFORM Global
Chemical Engineering Progress in Factiva
Chemical Market Reporter in ABI/INFORM Global
Chemical and Engineering News in ACS Web Editions

Societies & Organizations

Find information about fellow researchers and professionals.  Many sites have Internet links and news.
American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) & Cal State Long Beach Student Chapter AIChE
Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
Institution of Chemical Engineers
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
American Chemical Council
The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)
International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE)
American Physical Society (APS)
Materials Research Society (MRS)

Print Indexes                                                                                          top

Use to find older citations or historic information.
Chemical Abstracts (3rd floor, room 322, QD 1A 51)
Beilstein's Handbuch der Organischen Chemie (4th floor, room 407, QD 251 B4 1918) (instructions)
Gmelin's Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie (4th floor, room 407, QD 151 G52)
Landolt-Bornstein (4rd floor QC. L33 New Ser.)

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