10.28: Chemical-Biological Engineering Lab  

Information Navigator (Get started? Search databases? Get the full text? Know if information is reliable?)

RefWorks (for organizing your citations and citing properly)

Protocols and Methods (collection of detailed experimental procedures)

Chemical Engineering Research Guide

Need to draw chemical structures? Or biological pathways?

Install ChemBioDraw!

Web Of Knowledge/Web of Science (1973-present)

Index to high-impact science and engineering research journals. Includes cited reference searching.  Watch these videos to learn more:

• Web of Science (video, 2:23min)
• Tracking a citation using Web of Science (video, 4:01min)

 Scopus

A direct competitor to Web of Science. Index to science, social science, engineering, arts and humanities research journals. Includes cited reference searching.

Medline/PubMed (1966-present)

Definitive NCBI database for research in medicine and biosciences. Includes MEDLINE, other full-text resources, links to NCBI sequencing databases.

SciFinder (1907-present, must register before using the first time)

Comprehensive chemical information database. Covers scientific journals, patents, conference proceedings, and technical papers. You can also search Medline using the SciFinder interface, combining detailed chemical information with medical literature.

• Register first http://libraries.mit.edu/cas-reg
• Access http://libraries.mit.edu/get/scifinder

 Compendex (1884-present)

Find articles, conference papers, and reports in all fields of engineering. 

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