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
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
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
Data Citation Index
Derwent Innovations Index
KCI - Korean Journal Database
Medline
Russian Science 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
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
Index to biology, biochemistry and other life science literature.
Scopus
Index to journals and conference papers across all subject areas.
INSPEC
Extensive index for physics, engineering and computing literature covering journals, conference proceedings, reports and dissertations from 1898 onwards.

Databases for Structures, Reactions and Properties

Reaxys
Index to chemistry literature. Search by topic, author, compound name, molecular formula or structure. * Now includes Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry*.
SciFinder
The largest index to chemistry and related literature. 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. Each request costs the Library about £10 so please only order essential items. 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.

How to do a literature search

Library Guide to 'How to do a Literature Search'