Research Guides: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Websites

Selected sites

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Involved with environmental regulation at the federal level, the EPA is charged with protecting human health and the environment through the enforcement of federal environmental legislation and regulations.
Office of Scientific and Technical Information | U.S. Dept. of Energy DOE data, software, research documents, and science education resources
Occupational Safety and Health Administration | U.S. Dept. of Labor With the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance.
OurEnergyPolicy.org - Resource Library The Energy resource library aggregates and indexes more than 4,000 publicly available reports, white papers, studies, journal articles, and other materials. Topics include: Biofuels, Climate Change, Coal, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, Hydropower, Legislation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Oil, Regulation, Solar, Technology, Wind and more.
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OurEnergyPolicy is a non-partisan platform that does not have nor endorse any specific political, programmatic, policy, or technological agenda, but rather seeks to encourage a broad discussion of all points of view.

AIChE (based in USA) American Institute of Chemical Engineers - World's leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with a breadth of resources and expertise for those in core process industries or emerging areas, such as translational medicine.
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) AIMBE’s mission is to provide leadership and advocacy in medical and biological engineering for the benefit of society.
Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) The Society for Biological Engineering (an AIChE technological community) produces content across the spectrum of the field of bio-engineering. Explore the following topics.
Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE) The Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE) is a professional organization which encourages inquiry and interest in biological engineering. IBE supports: **Scholarship in education, research and service; **Professional standards for engineering practices **Professional and technical development of biological engineering; **Interactions among academia, industry and government; **Public understanding and responsible uses of biological engineering products.
American Chemical Society (ACS) ACS serves a large international membership, providing educational and career development programs, products, and services.
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) ASEE provides numerous resources to help people across the engineering education community.
Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) A nonprofit, international association dedicated to the advancement of microbiological sciences, especially as they apply to industrial products, biotechnology, materials, and processes.
Society of Women Engineers
National-Academies.org National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Engineering Institute of Medicine National Research Council

A Guide to the NIST Chemistry WebBook The NIST Chemistry WebBook provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.
Safety Links: Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) Material Data Safety Sheets (MSDS) have valuable information concerning substances used in the workplace. This is a collection of useful MSDS-related links. (Compiled by James R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University)
WebElements - Periodic Table of the Elements Essential data and description of the elements from Prof. Mark Winter of the University of Sheffield.
NIST Standard Reference Data | free databases A catalog of NIST’s free, web interface SRD databases
ThermoDex (University of Texas Libraries) Contains annotated bibliographic records that describe compilations of thermodynamic and physical property data for chemical compounds and other substances. Most are printed books; a few are freely available Web-based databases.
TRAIL - Technical Report Archive & Image Library Search U.S. government technical reports digitized or harvested by TRAIL.

Chegg Textbook Destination Company that specializes in online textbook rentals, homework help, online tutoring, scholarships and internship matching.
Cheresources.com - ChE links ChE links for chemical and process engineering resources. Cheresources.com is an organization started in 1998 to promote collaboration among chemical engineers around the globe.
ScienceOpen ScienceOpen serves as a professional networking platform and offers a freely accessible search and discovery platform with smart filters, topical collections and input from the academic community (post-publication peer review, recommendation, social sharing).
ThomasNet.com Check the product catalogs to locate specific and often hard-to-find industrial products.
Wolfram | Alpha A computational knowledge search engine that finds answers by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms and methods rather than 'searching the web'
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Patent Information

The Patent tab at left will take you to an excellent guide for finding and working with patents.

ACS Joint Board-Council Committee on Patents and Related Matters
"What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents" (4th edition) - Primer on patent law basics
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Google Patents