To access the electronic databases, go to the UCT Libraries web site (http://www.lib.uct.ac.za) and hover your mouse over Search & Find in the top menu bar. In the dropdown menu, click on Databases to open the alphabetical list of databases, where you can navigate to the database you need.
Databases are vast searchable collections of records describing journal articles and other documents such as conference papers, reports, and book chapters. They are produced commercially or by learned societies, and most of them are international in scope, thus enabling you to explore the world's literature in a particular field. When you search a large international database, the articles you discover may, or may not, be available in UCT Libraries. Most databases provide abstracts (or summaries) of the articles' content, and some provide the full text of the articles themselves. When full text is not part of the database, our link resolver software, SFX, will help you track down the full article if it is available in any of our e-journal packages.
Two of the most important databases for chemical engineers are SciFinder and Ei Compendex. For more information about these resources, click on the SciFinder and Ei Compendex tabs of this guide.
The following databases are recommended for chemical engineering searches:
The ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library is a vast collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. The Library covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.
Web of Science provides multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide. It includes current and retrospective coverage in science and engineering, as well as the social sciences, arts, and humanities. UCT Libraries has access to this database from 1962 to the present.
Scopus is a vast abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources, covering all major science, technology, and medicine publications (over 19,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 5,000 publishers) as well as 500 million quality web pages.
This e-journal package covers physical science and engineering as well as life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.
A good place to start a literature search for technical or engineering information, CASC covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and the applied sciences, including chemical engineering. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,900 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 840 periodicals.
This useful resource indexes and abstracts original research carried out at Mintek and recorded in the form of journal articles, reports, patents, conference papers, and special publications.
Subjects covered include: economic geology, mineralogy, minerals engineering, extraction technology, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, biotechnology, process chemistry, environmental management, and physical metallurgy.
From the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, this database covers technical research, development, and operating practices for metalliferous and industrial minerals in the fields of economic geology, mining technology, mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, and non-metals extraction from 1979 to the present.
This database covers technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.
This database provides articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. Subjects covered include: symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals.
All volumes and editions are available at DOI:10.1107/97809553602060000001
Provides extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.