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Last revised: October 2007

Chemical Engineering

Scope: This guide was created to help students and faculty find information in the field of Chemical Engineering. No attempt has been made to present an exhaustive list of reference materials on the subject. For further assistance, please access Chemical Engineering subject specialist Nedelina Tchangalova's professional webpage or e-mail her at nedelina(@)umd.edu.

Finding Books

At UM Libraries

To locate books at the library you'll need to use the UM Catalog. Choosing the best search method depends on how much you know about the books you're searching for.

When looking for a known book search by:

  • author or
  • title
When looking for books on a particular topic search by:
  • keyword or
  • subject

This search box will open the UM Catalog and launch your search in a new window.

To narrow your results, use the catalog's advanced search and limit your search by:

  • publication year
  • location
  • adding additional keywords

A word/s anywhere search will locate terms and phrases that appear in the title, subject headings, or notes of a catalog record. Examples of some common terms and phrases used to locate books on chemical engineering include:

industrial     chemical plants     molding     heat exchangers
chemistry     chemical processes     molecular sieves     packed towers
metallurgy     gas     protective atmospheres     plate towers
acids     geothermal     recycle operations     separators
biochemical     leaching     zone melting     fuel
biotechnology     mixing     extraction apparatus     industrial electrochemistry

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Books dealing with similar subjects are likely to be grouped together on the shelves. Thus, another way to locate books on a particular topic is to browse by call number. You can browse:

  • physically -- by going to the stacks and shelf-reading
  • virtually -- by doing a call number search in the online catalog using the first few digits of a call number

Most books on chemical engineering will be found in the TP 155-156 range. Books within the topic of chemical technology are shelved in TP 1-1185.

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At Other Libraries

If you cannot find what you're looking for in the UM Catalog, you can search for resources beyond those held in our libraries. The best tool for locating books and journals beyond holdings of the University of Maryland and its consortium libraries is WorldCat. WorldCat contains records for materials found in research libraries worldwide. You can use a link when you find the material outside of the UM catalog.

You may use the Interlibrary Loan page to place requests for items not owned by UM. Materials requested through interlibrary loan are delivered approximately two weeks depending on the format, electronic or print.

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Reference Works

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

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Handbooks & Manuals

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Databases

Research Port is an electronic resource that allows you to:
  • Search for journal articles and books
  • Access databases and e-journals from on and off campus
  • Search an individual database OR search several simultaneously
  • Search databases and the UM Libraries’ catalog simultaneously
  • Find full-text articles
  • E-mail or save article citations

    Note: Off-campus access to databases is restricted to current UM students, faculty and staff. When seeking off-campus access through Research Port you will need the barcode from your new ID card and your last name. You can also establish a VPN (Virtual Private Network) on your home computer for complete access to Research Port and other UM library resources.

Core Databases

Biotechnology Abstracts
This database provides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.

Compendex
Compendex offers a wide range of information resources in the applied science and engineering fields.

Conference Papers
Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author.

General Science Abstracts
General Science Abstracts contains bibliographic coverage of over 265 leading journals and magazines in the sciences from the United States and Great Britain.

Discovery Gate
Discovery Gate allows access to CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin, MDL® Available Chemicals Directory, MDL® Drug Data Report, and MDL® Toxicity, authoritative reference works, and links to over 20,000 journal titles.

INSPEC
INSPEC covers the subjects computing, electronics, and physics, with related coverage of materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, and biomedical engineering.

INSPEC Archive
INSPEC Archive covers the subjects computing, electronics, and physics, with related coverage of materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, and biomedical engineering from 1868-1968.

NTIS
NTIS covers U.S. government-sponsored research and reports from federal agencies. Indexes and abstracts technical research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio-visual products.

Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. Virtually the only index for finding what papers have cited other papers.

SciFinder Scholar
(Available on workstations in the Chemistry and Engineering and Physical Sciences Library to UM users only)
Comprehensively indexes the literature in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences. It is the online version of Chemical Abstracts.

Scitation
Scitation searches more than 100 journals from AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME, SPIE, and a host of other prestigious science and engineering journals.

US Patent Database
The U.S. Patent Database provides full-text patents, images of patents, and published patent applications from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web database.

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Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides abstracts and indexing for over 7,000 journals. Full text of articles for over 4,000 scholarly publications, including more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications.

Ingenta
Ingenta gives access to more than 20,000 publications from the ingenta database. Some full text is available; faculty may be able to purchase some articles for fax or online delivery.

JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It includes complete runs of journals with full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years.

LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic is a full-text database that offers a wide range of news, political, legal, business, and reference information in full-text format. Primary source of newspaper articles, including those from the Washington Post and the New York Times. Federal code, regulations, and case law, plus state codes and case law are also included.

MasterFILE Premier
MasterFILE Premier provides abstracts and indexing for 2,650 general periodicals. Full text of articles for nearly 2,000 periodicals, and 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews.

netLibrary
netLibrary is a collection of E-texts covering topics specifically chosen by Maryland Academic Libraries. It includes computer science, business, international relations, education, environmental science, psychology, and civil rights law and history collections.

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides abstracts and indexing for more than 1800 science journals. Full text of more than 800 journals is available. Some articles are in languages other than English.

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Periodicals

The level of scholarship is different in various publications. Information on how to distinguish scholarly journals from trade publications and popular magazines can be found at http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/journals.html. To locate journals in your field of interest conduct a Journal Search in the UM catalog or browse the E-Journal collections in Research Port. The following is a select list of journals in chemical engineering.

Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering
Catalysis Letters
Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering Communication
Computers and Chemical Engineering
Environmental Progress
Fuel
Hydrocarbon Processing
Journal of Catalysis
Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan
Journal of non-crystalline solids
Particle and particle systems characterization
Polymer Bulletin
Polymer Degredation and Stability
Polymer Engineering and Science
Powder Technology
Process Engineering
Process Safety Progress: A Publication of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science
Revue Internationale du Froid (International Journal of Refrigeration)
Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering

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Internet Resources

General

Cache: A Learning Community for Chemical Engineering
http://www.che.utexas.edu/cache/

Chemical Engineers' Resource Page
http://www.cheresources.com

ChemSpy
http://www.chemspy.com/
The Internet navigator for the chemical industry

InfoMine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Chemical Engineering Resources on the Internet via InfoMine

History of Chemical Engineering & Chemical Technology
http://www.pafko.com/history/

OPD Search: Chemical Buyers Directory
http://www.opdsearch.com/

WebElements: The Periodic Table on the World Wide Web
http://www.webelements.com/

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Professional and Scholarly Organizations

American Chemical Society (ACS)
http://www.acs.org/

American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE)
http://www.aiche.org/

Institute of Chemical Engineers
http://www.icheme.org/

Royal Society of Chemistry
http://www.rsc.org/

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