Library: Chemical Engineering: Search the literature

Library databases

These library databases act as indexes to many thousands of journals. Some include other types of information such as books, patents and conference papers.

Compendex via Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive engineering literature database - over 21 million records from 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. Coverage from 1884 onwards including journal, conference papers, and book series.

Video: Compendex - Numerical Search/Refine by Physical Property (6:05)

Web of Science: all databases This link opens in a new window
Search across all databases on the Web of Science platform.
The University of Bath Library gives you access to these databases on the Web of Science platform:
- Web of Science Core Collection
- Biosis Citation Index
- Current Contents Index
- Data Citation Index
- Derwent Innovations Index
- Grants Index
- Inspec
- KCI - Korean Journal Database
- Medline
- Preprint Citation Index
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Citation Index
- SciELO Citation Index
- Zoological Record

Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index (PCI)
Plant Cost Index (PCI) database. Download data by month (1970-) or year (1947-). The website provides many additional resources including Chemical Engineering magazine online.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text articles for thousands of scholarly business journals, practitioner journals and trade magazines. Includes access to Harvard Business Review from 1922.
On EBSCO's platform it is possible to search a number of education indexes in combination with Business Source Complete, for example, British Education Index, ERIC and Education Source.
BIOSIS Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Index to biology, biochemistry and other life science literature.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Index to journals and conference papers across all subject areas.
INSPEC This link opens in a new window
Extensive index for physics, engineering and computing literature covering journals, conference proceedings, reports and dissertations from 1898 onwards.

JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments

JoVE (Journal of Visualised Experiments) This link opens in a new window
JoVE provides 12,000+ science and engineering videos. These cover core concepts and experimental techniques, divided between its Science Education platform and peer-reviewed, video research Journal.

JoVE Science Education
Videos designed to teach scientific fundamentals about learning and teaching the theory and practice of scientific experiments.
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Includes collections in the life sciences, psychology, environmental sciences and physics and engineering.
JoVE Science Education: Chemical Engineering
JoVE Science Education: Physics
JoVE Journal
A peer-reviewed scientific video journal of advanced experimental techniques aimed at researchers
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Collections in the life sciences, chemistry, engineering, and behaviour,

Databases for Structures, Reactions and Properties

Reaxys This link opens in a new window
Index to chemistry literature from over 16,000 periodicals covering chemical information and related areas. It also covers patents. Search for substances or documents, by topic, author, compound name, molecular formula, structure or reaction.
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
SciFinder-n is the largest index to chemistry and related literature, including patents. Search by topic, author, compound name, molecular formula or structure.

What if the Library does not have the materials you need?

Inter-library loans service
If you find references to books, journals, articles or other materials we either do not stock in print or subscribe to online, you can request these via our Inter-library loans service. If you haven't used the service before you will need to register.

The Library catalogue

Library catalogue
Search the library catalogue to find and access many print and online books, journal articles and other publications.

Help with literature searching

Library guide to how to do a literature search
Web search guide
A guide to using internet search engines, Google databases and alternative tools.

Finding and submitting dissertations and theses

Information about dissertations and theses

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
PQDT Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses.
It includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with more than a million full-text dissertations. The database offers full-text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK and Ireland content.

Web tools

Connected Papers
Online tool to assist literature searching by visually mapping similar research papers to a chosen paper that you input (by title or DOI). The free version allows you to run 5 searches per month. It can find similar papers based on co-citations, even if they have not referenced each other directly.
Elicit
Elicit is powered by AI to help you find research papers and provides abstracts and DOIs - which you can search for in the Library catalogue.
TechXtra
TechXtra is a search interface providing access to freely available full-text content from articles, websites, theses and dissertations, books, industry news, new job announcements, technical reports, e-prints, learning and teaching resources and the latest research, in engineering, mathematics and computing.
Google Scholar
Search for scholarly papers indexed by Google.
Web search guide
A guide to using internet search engines, Google databases and alternative tools.