SciFinder
SciFinder Scholar represents the combined databases Chemical Abstracts and MEDLINE (aka PubMed), providing access to journal articles, conference papers, patents, dissertations, and books in all areas of chemistry and chemical engineering, including biomedical engineering, biotechnology, and biomaterials, as well as reactions, properties data, and spectra. Years of coverage are 1907-present. You must register for an individual user ID before using this product.

• Registering for Access to SciFinder  (PDF)
• Finding a Review Article in SciFinder  (PDF)
• Finding Substances and Reactions in SciFinder  (PDF)
• Importing SciFinder Search Results into EndNote (PDF)

Compendex*Plus (Engineering Index)
Compendex is the premier databases in engineering and applied science.  It provides references plus abstracts and selected full text to journal articles and conference papers in all areas of engineering for the years 1969-present.  Once connected, you have the choice to search not only Compendex, but several other engineering databases. You can search all of the databases at once or in combination.

• Refining Your Search Results in Compendex (PDF)
• Downloading Compendex Search Results to EndNote (PDF)

Web of Science
Provides citations plus abstracts and selected full text to journal articles on a wide range of scientific and technical topics. Coverage is for the years 1965-present. Includes the option of searching by cited author or cited reference.

• Finding a Review Article in Web of Science (PDF)
• Cited Reference Searching in Web of Science (PDF)

PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s open access version of the biomedical database, MEDLINE.  You can search MEDLINE on SciFinder Web above or you can search it via PubMed. Coverage on PubMed is for the years 1953-present. When searching PubMed from off-campus, use the following URL: http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/pdp/index.asp?ID=328. If asked, enter your UBIT name and password. This will enable access to full-text to articles in journals UB has a current subscription to.

Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook
Online access to this classic chemical engineering reference book.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Handbook containing hundreds of tables with data and properties of elements, chemical and biochemical compounds, metals, alloys, ceramics, and other materials.

Knovel E-Books: Science and Engineering
Full-text access to over 1,000 major engineering textbooks and handbooks, many of which include interactive tables, equation plotters, and graphs. Once connected, click on My Subscription at the top, then type in your keywords in the search box. Books (and chapters within them) will display in ranked order. Simply click on Text to begin reading.

Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Online version of the 26-volume encyclopedia containing over 1,000 articles describing physical and chemical properties, production, applications, economics, etc., for a wide range of chemical substances.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Provides citations plus abstracts for doctoral and selected master’s theses in all disciplines for the years 1861-present. You can download the full text of UB dissertations published after January 1997 as well as the full-text of many non-UB digital dissertations published since 1997.

Electronic Journals @ UB
Use this database to quickly find out if UB has a subscription to the e-version of a journal as well as the dates it is available.  Simply type in the name of the journal and then follow the link(s) to it.

ACS Journals
Full-text of the full run of all of the scientific journals published by the American Chemical Society from the first volume on.

AIChE Journal via ScienceDirect
Full-text access for the years 1998-2003.

AIChE Journal via Wiley Online Library
Full-text access for the years 2004 to the present.

RSC Journals
Full-text access to 23 of the 27 journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry for the years 1997-present.

ScienceDirect – (Elsevier)
Online access to many of Elsevier Science’s journals for the years 1997-present.

Wiley Online Library
Full-text of the 400+ journals published by Wiley, including many in the sciences, for the years 1997-present.

BISON
If we don’t have access to the journal you need online or our online coverage does not include the article you need, search BISON to check for its availability at UB in print.  When searching BISON for a journal, click on the Journals button above the search box, then type in the name of the journal. If we have the journal, you will get a title listing for it.  Click on the journal title to get location and call number information.  Note:  Some of the older runs of our print journals are now stored at the Annex.  See the guide below for information on how to get copies of articles from those.

• Quick Guide to Finding Journals at UB (PDF)

ILLiad
If UB doesn’t have access to the journal you need in print or online, we will try to get a copy of the article you need from another library using the InterLibrary Loan option in ILLiad. Once connected, click on Log-on, then click on New User to register and begin making your journal article requests.

BISON
To search for both print and electronic books, use BISON.  Click on the title of a book; then click where it says CHECK AVAILABILITY to find out whether the book is checked out or not. If it is an electronic book, click on the INTERNET LINK to connect to it online. To limit your search in BISON to just electronic books, click on the e-books button above the search box before doing your search.

Knovel E-Books: Science and Engineering
Online collection of over 1,000 science and engineering handbooks and textbooks.  Many of the books have interactive tables and graphs. Once connected, click on My Subscription at the top, then type in your keywords in the search box. Books (and chapters within them) will display in ranked order. Simply click on Text to begin reading.

ENGnetBASE via CRCnetBASE
Online access to over 800 engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. You can browse an alphabetical listing of titles or search by keywords and phrases.

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
Online collection of several hundred “born-digital” books in engineering and computer science, usually 50 to 100 pages long, that synthesize important research and development topics.  Books can be printed out or downloaded in their entirety.

Ebook Library
Ebook Library (EBL) provides access to several thousand books in all subject areas including engineering, physics, chemistry, computer science, geology, and more.  Books in EBL can be read online or downloaded to a computer or certain hand-held devices. Printing is allowed up to 20% of a title and copy-and-paste is allowed up to 5% of a title.

WorldCat
To expand your search for books beyond what UB owns in print or electronically, use WorldCat, a mega-catalog with 40+ million records for books and other materials owned by over 20,000 libraries. We can borrow any book you find in WorldCat that we don’t own for you.  See ILLiad, below.

ILLiad
If UB doesn’t own the book you need, we will try to borrow it for you from one of the many libraries with which we have reciprocal borrowing arrangements. To request a book (there is no fee), use the InterLibrary Loan option in ILLiad.  Once connected, click on Log-on, then click on New User to register and begin making your book requests.

Knovel E-Books: Science and Engineering
We recommend you start your search for properties data in Knovel, an online collection of over 1,000 engineering handbooks and textbook.  Knovel includes all kinds of properties data – physical, chemical, electrical, mechanical, magnetic, thermal, environmental, biological, etc.  Much of it is contained in interactive tables that function like spreadsheets.  Search by keywords or click on the menu option labeled Data Search to do sophisticated data searching, even setting ranges for temperature and pressure, etc.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Another good place to start your search for properties data, particularly if looking for basic physical data such as boiling and melting points, densities, refractive indexes, and solubilities. Also includes data on thermodynamics, fluid properties, biochemistry, spectroscopy, atomic and nuclear physics, and polymers.

SciFinder Web
SciFinder provides detailed access to the properties of chemicals and many other types of substances via the largest substance database in the world and a very large database of references to journal and patent literature. Search the substance records in SciFinder for direct access to a long list of calculated and experimental properties.

NIST Data Gateway: Property Search
Provides links to NIST databases that contain name, synonyms, structures, atomic/nuclear data, spectra, phase diagrams, plus thermodynamic, kinetic, solubility, polymer and biochemistry data.

Other Sources: Properties Data for Chemicals & Materials
Use this very comprehensive web guide to locate other specialized databases and tools for accessing properties data of all kinds.

• Chemistry: Internet Resources
• Polymer Science & Technology
• Properties Data for Chemicals and Materials
• Spectra & Spectral Data

• American Ceramic Society
• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
• American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
• Electrochemical Society
• Electrochemical Society
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Society for Biomaterials