An introduction to important primary, secondary, and tertiary resources in Chemical Engineering.

1. A brief intro
to Chemical Engineering resources
for ENCH200, 2012

2. Liaison librarian
Deborah Fitchett
• Chemical and Process
• Civil and Natural Resources

3. Subject guide
http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/ench

4. Learn

5. We’ve used…
 Internet
 Wikipedia
 Books
 Journal articles
 Newspapers
 Pamphlets
 Library
 Other people – friends, parents, lecturers
 Phone up organisations to get information

6. We’ve also heard of…
 DVDs
 Library
 Help desk
 Archives
 Databases
 Textbook hire
 TV news

7. Types of resources
• Dictionaries
Tertiary • Encyclopaedias (inc. Wikipedia)
• Handbooks
• Books
Secondary • Literature reviews / review articles
• Technical reports
• Theses
Primary • Journal articles
• Conference papers
• Lab books

8. Compare
Trade magazines Journals
Eg Chemical Engineering, TCE Eg Journal of Chromatographic Science,
 Smaller Reviews in Chemical Engineering
 General topics, in more general terms  More detail on more specific topics –
talking to a knowledgeable audience
 Short, summary-style articles
 Describes experiments in depth
 More colour, photos, looks nice
 Black and white, looks more official
 More opinionated, casual
 More formal, factual, technical
 Lots of ads, has a directory
 Written like a report – introduction,
 Gives background of authors – more conclusion, references
personal details
 Presence of references
 Figures are more general
 Figures/graphs have more numbers
 Gets attention
 Gives information
 Secondary source
 Primary source

9. Reading a citation
[1] Colak, A. T.; Colak, F.; Yesilel, O. Z.;
Buyukgungor, O. Synthesis, spectroscopic,
thermal, voltammetric studies and biological
activity of crystalline complexes of pyridine-
2,6-dicarboxylic acid and 8-hydroxyquinoline.
J. Mol. Struct. 2009, 936 (1-3), 67-74.
[1] Colak, A. T.; Colak, F.; Yesilel, O. Z.;
Buyukgungor, O. J. Mol. Struct. 2009, 936
(1-3), 67-74.

10. The parts of a book
 Title/author/publisher/date, cover blurb
 Same authors throughout (or at least same editors)
 Publishing/copyright details
 Contents page – for finding general topics
 Acknowledgements, foreword, preface, introduction
 Chapters – not always structured but may have
subheadings/subtitles
 Index – keywords for finding specific subtopics
 Glossary to define key terms
 Reference list – at end of book or end of chapter (or
sometimes beginning of book)
(Cf textbook which usually has examples, exercises, is
more general and may be bigger)

11. Standards
Online Print
 AS/NZS  AS
 ASTM  BS
 IEEE  ISO
 NFPA fire  Eurocodes
codes

12. Key reference material

13. ChemWatch

14. ChemSpider.com

15. We’ve learned....
General:
 Where to find chemical engineering information for assignments etc
 Difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary resources
 Asklive service to get help from library staff
Journals and magazines:
 How to tell the difference between a journal and a magazine
 The library has interesting chemical engineering magazines
 How to search journals through Learn and Canterbury website
 How to read a citation – had no idea!
Books and standards:
 Quick review of book as a whole – textbooks vs other books
 How to access online standards via the UC website

16. We’ve learned....
Reference material:
 You can use encyclopedias to get background/general understanding
 Online chemical engineering encyclopedias which will be very helpful
 Useful reference sources such as Perry’s handbook
 Wikipedia has references that could be books and websites
 Prominent chemical engineering texts can be viewed online
Databases:
 How to access all the databases linked with the uni – very useful
 Awesome Chemspider.com – draw to search/identify molecules
 Chemwatch - hazards associated with chemicals and consequences

17. We still want to know...
Library opening hours
 EPS: 8am-9pm Mon-Thurs; 8am-6pm Fri; 10am-5pm Sat-Sun
 More: http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/hours
What you can and can’t borrow
 You can borrow almost everything. Exceptions are books in the small
reference collection, and some theses and other special items – their
catalogue record will say “Reference” or “Library use only”.
What are the printing facilities?
 EPS has photocopier/scanners, and printers (including A3 and colour).
Charges come from your Canterbury Card. (Scanning is free.)

18. We still want to know...
Some of the specific Chem.Eng. journals
 There’s a couple of lists at
http://canterbury.libguides.com/content.php?pid=23298&sid=227007
Are there free engineering magazines?
 You can borrow TCE and Chemical Engineering for free from the library,
or various websites have similar articles – contact me and I’ll help you
find something appropriate to your interests.
Magazines: primary, secondary, tertiary?
 Mostly secondary – reporting on research that someone else has done –
but usually less in-depth than other secondary resources.

19. We still want to know...
Where to find Chemical Engineering books
 Search in the catalogue or MultiSearch to get the call number, then look
on the shelves upstairs (or by the entrance for 3-hour/3-day books)
 Or browse:
http://canterbury.libguides.com/content.php?pid=23298&sid=167505
What are the most useful/used Chemical Engineering books?
Tricky! The textbooks currently on high demand are at
http://ipac.canterbury.ac.nz/ipac20/ipac.jsp?index=.CC&term=ench For
more info on the most used I’d have to delve deep into our software...
Where to find recent up-to-date theses?
 http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/

20. We still want to know...
How to learn Excel
 Try the new book “Foundations of Excel”
http://ipac.canterbury.ac.nz/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=a&index=BIB&term
=1726686
Information on how reports are structured
 Some useful books are listed at
http://canterbury.libguides.com/content.php?pid=23298&sid=262747
Accessing other library systems
 You can join Christchurch City Libraries
 Some access to many other NZ academic libraries:
http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/services/borrow_otherlibs.shtml

21. We still want to know...
More helpful sites
 Chemical society websites at
http://canterbury.libguides.com/content.php?pid=23298&sid=285449
Searching for sources online
 http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/detective/ has good advice
What criteria do I use in choosing keywords to search for?
 The general principle is to use words that will be in the results you
want, but won’t be in the results you don’t want. 
How to filter out the search results?
 If you use MultiSearch, use the “Refine” options on the left of the results
screen to narrow down which results you want/don’t want.
This all takes practice – visit me and I’ll help with your search.

22. Contact me
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 Meet
 Email