Chemistry 

These are equivalent to what you would find on the shelf in a library.

• Books on a single topic by one (or two or three...) authors.
• Books which are edited volumes where each chapter is written by a different expert.
• Audio-visual material such as DVDs, videos, CDs, etc.
• Scores and librettos.

See the Articles tab for locating journals, magazines and newspapers.

1. Try a title or keyword search on your topic.
2. Look at several relevant records from the results list and note words and phrases from the "subject" area.
3. Go back to the search screen and search BY SUBJECT using the words you identified in step 2.
4. When you find something useful, either copy down the call number and location (if it is in our library) or submit an interlibrary loan

More detailed directions can be found on our Searching Databases page.

QD Chemistry

• 1 - 65 General, including alchemy
• 71 - 142 Analytical chemistry
• 146 - 197 Inorganic chemistry
• 241 - 441 Organic chemistry
• 450 - 731 Physical and theoretical chemistry. Including quantum chemistry, stereochemistry, chemical reactions, surface chemistry, thermochemistry, solution chemistry, electrochemistry, radiochemistry, radiation chemistry, photochemistry
• 901 - 999 Crystallography

TP Chemical technology

• 155 - 156 Chemical engineering
• 200 - 248 Manufacture and use of chemicals
• 315 - 360 Fuel
• 368 - 456 Food processing and manufacture
• 480 - 498 Low temperature engineering. Refrigeration
• 500 - 660 Fermentation industries. Beverages. Alcohol
• 690 - 692.4 Petroleum refining and products
• 751 - 762 Gas industry
• 785 - 888 Clay industries. Ceramics. Glass. Cement industries E
• 890 - 933 Textile dyeing and printing
• 934 - 944 Paints, pigments, varnishes, etc.
• 1080 - 1185 Polymers, plastics and their manufacture