Research Guides: Chemical Engineering: Home

How to use this guide

This guide is for engineering graduate students beginning to write their master's theses or doctoral dissertations. You will find information about searching the engineering literature for papers on your research topic, locating journals that publish work in your research area, and locating books and other technical resources.

Visit the different pages of this guide using the tabs on the left to delve into these areas in depth.

Quick Start

The most commonly used library database for chemical engineering is SciFinder Scholar. SciFinder requires you to set up an individual account before you can access it. Use the Registration link below.

SciFinder Scholar
CAS database of chemical substances, reactions, and journal literature. Registration required.
Register Here. After registering, please always access SciFinder Scholar from here and not from the confirmation email.

SciFinder Scholar allows you to explore the journal and patent literature for information about chemical substances and reactions and chemistry-related research topics. You must register and create your own account and password to use this database, which is for academic, non-commercial use only (see license agreement for details). Full text access is available for those journals to which we have electronic subscriptions.

Tip: Accessing article full-text

The library does not subscribe to every journal published. When looking at a results list within a database, look for a Get it! button with Rowan University branding to find sources of full text.

Other Article Databases for Chemical Engineering

Use these subscription e-resources to locate published research in chemical engineering.

ACS Publications
Full text collection of journals published by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Rowan account required.

Most current ACS journals are available in full text. The Legacy Archive includes access to journals formerly published by the ACS. For coverage dates of specific journals use the website E-Journals search.
Web of Science
Full text database of scientific journal articles with data on who has cited them.

Web of Science® provides immediate data on who has cited research papers, covering over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900.
Compendex (Engineering Index)
Search tool for peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in engineering.

Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world. It provides a truly holistic and global view of peer reviewed and indexed publications with over 17 million records from 73 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. Every record is carefully selected and indexed using the Engineering Index Thesaurus to ensure discovery and retrieval of engineering-specific literature that engineering students and professionals can rely on. By using Compendex, engineers can be confident information is relevant, complete, accurate and of high quality.
Science Direct
Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the sciences.

ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books. The database covers the Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities.
Scopus
SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

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Tip: Accessing article full-text

Other Article Databases for Chemical Engineering