Chemical Engineering
Resources for chemical engineering information.
Finding Articles and Patents
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SciFinderThe most comprehensive database for the chemical literature, searchable by topic, author, substances by name or CAS Registry Number, OR use the editor to draw chemical structures, substructures, or reactions. It is a core research tool for chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology, physics, environmental science and other science and engineering disciplines.
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Compendex (on Engineering Village)Provides international coverage of engineering and applied science literature in journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
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Inspec (on Engineering Village)Covers international literature in astronomy, physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers, and industrial technology.
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ScopusInternational multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
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Reaxys (Web Access to Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Database)Combined web access to Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Database. Search by chemical structures or reactions to retrieve physical/chemical properties, spectra, related reactions, description of reactions as well as references to the literature in which the data appear. It also includes the synthesis planner tool.
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InnovationQ PlusAn intellectual property analytics tool used for researching patents, patent applications, and prior art.
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PubMed with MGet ItThe National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database to journal citations in the biomedical sciences.
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Web of ScienceCombines three citation indexes--Arts & Humanities, Science Expanded, and Social Sciences--which permit searching for articles that cite a known author or work, as well as searching by subject, author, journal, and author address. Covers 8,400+ journals.
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OnePetroThis database provides technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry from 18 publishing partners, like the Society of Petroleum Engineers, International Society for Rock Mechanics, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, just to name a few.
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NTRL (National Technical Reports Library)Indexes reports on government sponsored R&D from selected federal agencies (e.g. Department of Energy, EPA), their contractors, and their grantees (e.g. U of M)
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Google Scholar @ U-M (with U-M Ann Arbor MGet It Links)Searches for scholarly documents on the web, with the added feature of "Availability at U-Michigan" links.
Search for journal articles, conference papers, patents and research reports in these databases. For a complete list of databases for Chemical Engineering, please see Library Databases Search.
Last Updated: Sep 24, 2025 9:59 AM
Subjects: Engineering, Science