Chemical and Process Engineering: guide to finding useful

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Chemical and Process Engineering: guide to finding useful resources in the library

Books

You can search for books in the library by looking on the library catalogue. http://catalogue.brad.ac.uk

. See the link to reading lists on the library home page for books recommended on individual modules.

eBooks

To access the eBook databases go to: http://catalogue.brad.ac.uk/search/m?web_chemeng_ebooks

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 ebrary Academic Complete ® : ebrary Academic Complete offers 70,000+ eBooks in many different academic subject areas.

 Knovel: This engineering eBook database gives you access to hundreds of engineering textbooks. We subscribe to the Chemistry & Chemical Engineering package.

Summon

This is a search you can do from the library home page of ALL the resources available

(both electronic and paper). The service is called ‘Summon’.

Journals

To search for a specific title go to the Journals link on the library home page and type in the journal title to see if we have access to the content.

Databases

Use the following databases to find journal articles, technical papers and conference proceedings to complete your literature review and support your research. You can find links to them all from the subject support pages on the library home page: http://catalogue.brad.ac.uk/search/m?web_chemeng_databases .

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 AMED: Allied and Complementary Medicine Database AMED is a bibliographic database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library.

1985 to date. (This Resource is limited to 4 Users at a time).

 Acland’s Video Atlas of Anatomy: Acland's offers over 300 video clips of human anatomic structures – muscles, tendons and joints, making the same movements that they make in life. Great for understanding anatomical structure and function.

 ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database: The ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database allows you to explore, search and view more than 36,500 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 6,200 systems.

 ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library: A vast collection of industryleading standards and technical engineering information .

 Business Source Complete: This database contains access to scholarly business journals dating back to 1886. Subject areas it covers include marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Over 300 different titles are related to Engineering.

 Engineering Village: Engineering Village is the most comprehensive database for engineering. You can search for journal articles, technical papers and it also includes conference proceedings. The material dates back to 1884.

 Lexis®Library: This database includes company information. It also has full text access to newspapers such as The Guardian, Independent and Observer.

 Proquest®: ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry/Global. In-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends and other topics: study and compare specific trades and industries. Business and financial information.

 ScienceDirect: Full text access to over 2,000 journal titles. Many of the important journals for chemical engineers with the highest impact factor are available in full text via this database.

 Scopus: Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of scientific journals, books and conference proceedings with nearly 22,000 titles.

 Web of Science sm : Web of Science indexes peer reviewed journals. A good multidisciplinary database.

 Wiley Online Library: Access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Health and Safety Information

 Barbour : Full text of a wide range of up to date health and safety documentation, including legislation, regulations, standards and guidance .

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Standards

 ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library: A vast collection of industryleading standards and technical engineering information.

 British Standards Online®: The library has access to all current British Standards in full text via BSOnline. Eurocodes also included.

Patents

 Espacenet Patent Search, Esp@cenet: Worldwide coverage from 63 different countries.

Theses and Research

 EthOS (Electronic Theses Online Service): Look here to find UK PhD theses that have been digitalised. If full text is not available, try using our Interlibrary Loan service.

 Bradford Scholars : An online service designed to host the full text of research materials produced by staff and MPhil/PhD students at the University of Bradford.

Search the library catalogue for MSc dissertations.

Past Exam Papers

Past exam papers are available via Blackboard. Click on Past Exam Papers under Student

Organisations.

Email Alerts

 Zetoc : This provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 28,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis. It includes an email alerting service, to enable you to keep up-to-date with relevant new articles and papers.

Professional Organisations

Institution of Chemical Engineers IchemE: http://www.icheme.org.uk/

Library Language: words and definitions

A glossary of frequently used words in the library. Find the link from the Library home page and the subject support pages. http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/help/librarylanguage/.

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Inter-library loans

The Interlibrary Loans (ILL) service aims to obtain items which are not held in the

University of Bradford libraries and are required to support your studies or research. See: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/library/services/interlibrary-loans/

Help?

Contact Subject Librarian for Engineering.

Kirsty Carver email: k.carver@bradford.ac.uk ,

Room 1.5 in Library.

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