There are lots of databases that contain journal articles about chemical engineering, and they are all available via Library Search – just click on the “Find databases” link in the left-hand menu and you will see an alphabetical list. Browse the list until you find the one you want. Remember to sign in to Library Search to get full access to the journal articles.

The most useful databases for your subject include:

American Chemical Society Legacy Archives contains all titles, volumes, issues, and articles published by the American Chemical Society from 1879 to 1995. There are 22 journals, 11,117 issues, and 464,233 articles in the fields of chemistry and related sciences such as biological and medicinal chemistry, polymer science and materials science. Titles include some of the most highly cited journals in the field, such as Chemical Reviews, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and the Journal of Organic Chemistry.

British Standards Online: British Standards Online (BSOL) contains British standards and international and European standards that have been adopted as British standards.

Business Source Premier a major business research database, providing access to over 2,100 full text journals covering various subject areas, including Engineering. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. (Guide to Business Source Premier)

Engineering Case Studies Online: Engineering Case Studies Online contains a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes. At completion, the collection will contain 250 hours and 50,000 pages of quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.

Engineering Village: Search several engineering databases with multiple search options, with journals, standards, property search and materials, equations, conference proceedings, and more. (Guide to Engineering Village)

Espacenet – European Patent Office: Index to more than 120 million patent documents worldwide from 1836 onwards. Full-text access to British patents from 1859. Full-text access to patents from other countries includes US from 1836 and various starting dates for EPO, WIPO, France, Germany and Switzerland.

Europe PMC: a repository, providing access to worldwide life sciences articles, books, patents and clinical guidelines. Europe PMC provides links to relevant records in databases such as Uniprot, European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), Protein Data Bank Europe (PDBE) and BioStudies.

GreenFILE: offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

IEL Online (IEEE Xplore): Full-text access to the entire IEEE and IET collection of journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, plus all active and historical IEEE standards.

Knovel:Chemistry and Chemical Engineering package includes books, technical information, analytical tools and interactive equations. (Guide to Knovel)

Lens Patent Search: Discovery and analytics tools on a comprehensive collection of patent literature with citation indexing.

New Scientist provides access to the articles from this weekly international science magazine. Articles are grouped by broad field or topic, and you can browse by date or search for a specific subject. It also includes lists of jobs and careers advice information. [Access via LibrarySearch and then choose OpenAthens link on the New Scientist page].

ScienceDirect searches across 2,500 peer-reviewed titles – or over 9.5 million articles. This is a good source for journal articles in engineering, covering chemical engineering, chemistry, energy, and materials science.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support research, including in the fields of engineering, science and technology.

SpringerProtocols 1980-2012 a large database of reproducible laboratory protocols (over 40,000) in biomedicine and life sciences, enabling users to find the right protocol for a lab set-up.

Web of Science (WoS) A multi-disciplinary service, where you can search for articles from over 18,000 journals in a wide range of science fields. You can access full-text journal articles, if the Library has an active subscription. (Guide to Web of Science)

Wiley Online Library searches across a multi-disciplinary collection of journals covering industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, mathematics and materials science.

Library Guide - Chemical Engineering