Search tools

Chemical Engineering search tools

General scientific/engineering search tools

Compendex - see also Engineering Village
All engineering disciplines. Includes links to cited documents.

Engineering Village
Database platform for Compendex and Inspec databases (see separate entries). Search databases separately or together. Includes links to cited documents.

Inspec (see also Engineering Village)
Physics, electrical engineering, electronics and computing. Includes links to cited documents.

Knovel
Engineering Data and Technical References to Solve Engineering Problems.

Reaxys
You can search for substances either by name or structure to retrieve literature, patents and a list of commercial suppliers for pricing.

Scopus
All subjects. Includes links to cited documents.

Web of Science Core Collection
All subjects. Includes links to cited documents.

Knovel
Engineering Data and Technical References to Solve Engineering Problems

Specialist search tools for chemical price data

Factiva
Indexes a number of sources for chemical price data including ICIS Chemical Business. Library subscription does not include access to the Factiva app.

Chemical Pricing Database
A chemical pricing database from the University of Texas which includes citations from Chemical Week and ICIS Chemical Business. Try searching for a chemical in the Chemical Pricing Database to get source information which can be helpful for searching Factiva.

Reaxys
You can search for substances either by name or structure to retrieve literature, patents and a list of commercial suppliers for pricing.

Scifinder (ONLY for lab quantities)
Scifinder has pricing for a range of chemicals, but only for lab quantities.

The Plastics Exchange
Contains contract and contract pricing on PP, HDPE, and LDPE.

USGS
Contains production and some pricing information for minerals (e.g., elements, fertilizers, metals, oxides, salts, etc.)

Specialist search tools/collections

Detherm Database
Provides thermophysical property data for about 25,000 pure compounds and 115,000 mixtures. DETHERM contains Literature values, together with bibliographical information, descriptors and abstracts. 5.6 million data sets are currently stored. The following properties are stored: Phase equilibrium data, Vapor pressures, critical data, Thermodynamic properties, Transport properties, Surface tension, Electrolyte data.

OnePetro
This is a full text database produced by SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) that provides access to technical papers in the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry

OSTI.gov
Technical reports, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, and data information from the US Department of Energy from the 1940s onwards.

Reaxys
You can search for substances either by name or structure to retrieve literature, patents and a list of commercial suppliers for pricing.