CHEMISTRY: Chemistry-Engineering Course Guide

REFERENCE SOURCES

These are books and websites that will help you gain some background information on your topic, and they can be vital to your understanding of the subject and for topic development.

Kirk-Othmer concise encyclopedia of chemical technology

TP9 .K54 1999 (Science Reference)

Macmillan encyclopedia of chemistry

QD4 .M33 1997 (Science Reference)

Dictionary of organic compounds

QD246 .D5 1996 (Science Reference)

Dictionary of inorganic compounds

FOLIO QD148 .D53 1992 (Science Library)

Rules of thumb for chemical engineers : a manual of quick, accurate solutions to everyday process engineering problems

TP151 .R85 1998 (Science Library)

Chemical engineering for chemists

TP145 .G78 1997 (Science Library)

A dictionary of chemistry

EPA/OPPT Chemical Fact Sheets

Periodic Table

Documentation Styles for the Sciences

Journal Abbreviations in the Sciences

ONLINE DATABASES

Use online databases as you would a print periodical index.  Items retrieved from these databases have been evaluated for content and indexed by subject librarians, unlike items retrieved from a search engine.

ACS Publications

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

ChemWeb

IngentaConnect

ScienceDirect

SciFinder Scholar

Scitation

Scopus

OTHER USEFUL WEBSITES

These websites have been evaluated by the librarians at W&L for relevancy, content, and objectivity.  They include tools to help with your research as well as useful supplemental materials.

Chemistry Resources at W&L (W&L University Libraries)

Physics & Engineering Resources at W&L (W&L University Libraries)

Public Library of Science

ChemFinder.com

Chemistry.org

Department of Energy Information Bridge

Nature Magazine

Science Magazine

Scirus

Searching Patents (W&L University Libraries)

RefWorks

Chemistry Department Homepage (W&L University)

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