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Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010
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Locating Books
To locate books on your topic, use the UCSLibrary Search (https://https://search.library.ucsb.edu/discovery/search?vid=01UCSB_INST%3AUCSB&lang=en/). As a starting point, use a keyword search on the likely terms. You are unlikely to find references to a specific plastics and polymersl, but may be able to find useful books on classes of materials. If the more specific subject fails, use the Browse Search option, select browse by Subject, and browse the subject headings "Plastics" or "Polymers" themselves. Note that browsing by call number on the shelves will miss our extensive collection of electronic books; however, you can browse by Library of Congress (LC) call numbers and see both e-book and print book listings.
- QC 173.4 - Solid state physics including Polymer physics
- QC 173.4 .L55 - Physics of liquid crystals
- QC 173.4 .P65 - Physical properties of polymers
- QD 196 - Inorganic polymers
- QD 281 .P6 - Chemistry of polymerization
- QD 380-388 - Polymer chemistry
- RS 201 - Drug delivery systems (including polymeric materials)
- TA 455 .P5-P55 - "Polymeric materials
- TP 156 .P6 - Industrial polymerization
- TP 1080-1185 Plastics and polymers technology
- TP 1180 .A-Z - Specific polymers (alphabetically by name)
Collections of Reference Works
- Knovel.com This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of handbooks and other reference works in engineering (chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, materials and biotechnology), chemistry and biochemistry, earth and environmental sciences among other areas. You may search within a particular work, or across the entire Knovel collection. Searching may be done by keyword, or by numeric data ranges.
- CRCnetBASE This link opens in a new window
Includes handbooks from a wide range of areas. Handbooks are browsable by table of contents, or keyword searchable, either individually or combined. Note that UCSB does not subscribe to the entire CRCnetBASE collection.
Reference Works
- Comprehensive Polymer Science (Ref QD 381 .C66 1989)
- Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
- Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (Ref Area TA 418.9 .S62 2002)
- A Handbook of Applied Biopolymer Technology: Synthesis, Degradation and Applications
- Handbook of Polymers
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
- Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference
- Polymeric Materials Encyclopedia (Ref TP 1110 .P65 1996)
- Ullman's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Finding Articles, Patents and Other Documents
- Materials Science and Engineering Database This link opens in a new windowMaterials Science and Engineering Database is a combination of a group of engineering databases from ProQuest. These include: Corrosion Abstracts, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Materials Business File, ProQuest Materials Science Journals, and others relevant to plastics and polymers research.
- Compendex (via Engineering Village) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. Includes citations and abstracts from engineering journals and conference proceedings.
- Derwent Innovations Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes patents of chemical, electrical and mechanical inventions from 40 patent-issuing authorities worldwide. Searchable by topic, inventor, patent assignee, patent number, classification codes, as well as searching by cited patents, and by chemical compounds.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Covers thousands of research journals, and extensive collections of conference proceedings and books across hundreds of disciplines.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Complete indexes both scholarly journals and trade publications, providing full text for most artilcles. It is a good source for industry and market data, and materials price information.
- MRS Proceedings Library Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains peer-reviewed conference papers presented at Materials Research Society meetings. Topics include electronic materials, plastics and polymers, composite materials, ceramics and metals. For current MRS proceedings (2016-present) see the journal "MRS Advances".
- SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Indexes papers on optics, photonics, optoelectronics, and imaging. Subject coverage is broad across optical technology, including astronomy, aerospace, remote sensing, biomedical optics, communications & fiber optics, electronic & medical imaging, lasers, microelectronics & micromachining, nanotechnology, optical physics, chemistry & biology, and signal & image processing.