Chemical and Biological Engineering

Welcome to the Drexel Libraries! These are some resources that will help you with your information and research needs.

We have broken the resources into collections of related material.  They are:

• Background Information: Books and encyclopedias to give you a good idea of the general landscape of research in your area
• Journal Articles, Patents, and Standards: Tools for locating primary source materials, which report experimental procedures, results, and specifications
• Chemicals, Properties, and Reactions: Use these sources to search for all things chemical
• Hazards, Safety, and Regulatory Information: A selection of materials to help you find supporting information for your proposed design
• Industry and Supplier Information: Important resources that didn't fit into the other categories
• Managing and Formatting Your References: Tools that will make it easy for you to create and format bibliographies

Got a reference and need to get to the full text?  Here is a set of suggestions for getting to the text of journal articles and books.  The options are ordered from the one that will get the information in your hands the fastest to the one that will take the most time.

Find and Access Journal Articles

Use DragonSearch to find peer reviewed research articles from scholarly journals. 

• Use relevant research keywords related to your topic. 
• For example, type ‘Ethylene Oxide Production' and click on Search.
• Refine your search results by selecting options such as  'peer review' and 'Articles and more'.
• Explore your results, find and access papers.
• If we do not have access, perform an Interlibrary Loan journal article request for the article needed. 

Search for Books