The following is a summary of University of Waterloo (UW) Library resources in support of the graduate program in Chemical Engineering, prepared by Anne Fullerton, Liaison Librarian for Chemical Engineering.
Material is collected to support teaching and research to the PhD level in Chemical Engineering with emphasis on these areas:
Biochemical engineering & industrial biotechnology
Chemical kinetics, catalysis and reactor design, energy conversion
Electrochemical and interfacial engineering
Environmental engineering & pollution control
Flow in porous media & enhanced oil recovery
Mathematical analysis, statistics and control
Polymer science and engineering
Transport phenomena
The decision to purchase Library materials for Chemical Engineering is the responsibility of the Liaison Librarian in consultation with the Faculty Library Representative. Selection is guided by the Collection Development Policy, and the Approval Plan Subject Profile for the department.
The Library provides access to 5,330 full-text journals in electronic format of which 1,547 are in subject areas relevant to Chemical Engineering. The Library collection also includes some 22,090 monographs relevant to Chemical Engineering. More detailed information including lists of serials purchased directly for Chemical Engineering, and serial titles of interest to Chemical Engineering (print and electronic) are available in the Library.
The University of Waterloo Library ’s collections in Chemical Engineering are housed in the Davis Centre Library. Access to the entire Library collection is through the web-based catalogue TRELLIS. The catalogue is available at computers in the Library and remotely. Access to the catalogue is also available through telnet access (to an ASCII client).
The Library’s self-charge circulation system allows users to sign out materials during the hours that the Library is open and to renew items from a web-based patron record. With the exception of the most current issue of a journal and reference materials, most materials circulate. Graduate students and faculty may borrow most monographs for the academic term.
The Library subscribes to a number of computer databases, most of which are Internet-accessible and others which are available within the Library on a CD-ROM network. The following are some of the databases relevant to Chemical Engineering:
Biological Sciences
Chemical Abstracts (via SciFinder Scholar)
CISTI Source
Compendex Plus (all areas of engineering)
Corrosion Abstracts
Engineered Materials Abstracts (polymers, ceramics, and composites)
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
INSPEC (computer control)
MEDLINE (medicine)
METADEX
Web of Science (Science Citation Index)
Books and journal articles from the University of Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier University may be identified and requested through TRELLIS, the unified catalogue which indexes all library materials in the Tri University Group (TUG). Items are delivered to UW from any TUG library in 1-2 working days.
Faculty and graduate students can order non-TUG journal articles directly under the Library's contract with Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. As well, UW's Interlibrary Loan/ Document Delivery Service obtains books, journal articles, patents, theses, standards etc. from institutions in Canada and abroad on behalf of UW faculty and students. Journal articles from Ontario libraries are delivered quickly through the Internet using Ariel software. Currently the Library absorbs all costs except for the purchase of non-UW theses, reports, patents, and standards.
Faculty and graduate students may borrow directly from university libraries in Ontario , Quebec and the Western Provinces ( Manitoba , Saskatchewan , Alberta and British Columbia ) under direct borrowing agreements.
The Library organizes and provides access to Internet resources such as ejournals, databases, reference sources such as the Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and Perry's handbook, through a gateway or portal. The URL is http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/ . It also includes a web page for Chemical Engineering researchers developed by the Liaison Librarian: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/chemeng/index.html
Reference assistance is available from professional librarians and specially trained library assistants in person or by telephone at the Library’s Information Desks. The Library also offers an electronic reference service, ASK US/TELL US ( http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/comments/ ) which is accessible by UW students and faculty through the Internet.
The Liaison Librarian for Chemical Engineering offers a workshop, Using the UW Library for Research, twice a year to all new graduate students in Chemical Engineering. She is also available to students for individual consultation by phone, email or in person. Course-specific instruction about library research strategies and tools is provided in conjunction with faculty. The Library also offers more general orientation programs including Davis Library tours, general seminars for graduate students, and workshops on topics such as Keeping Up with Your Research Literature - Electronically or Using Reference Manager or EndNote to Manage Your Research Literature.
During the past seven years, the Library has spent approximately $ 1,284,403.00 directly on materials for Chemical Engineering (for details, see Table 1 below). Electronic databases and full-text journals are acquired from a general fund. Materials acquired for other departments such as Biology, Physics and Chemistry and the other Engineering disciplines also support graduate study in Chemical Engineering.
We believe that our Library holdings and services provide a high level of support for the graduate program in Chemical Engineering. We would be pleased to discuss these in more detail with an appraiser during the campus visit.
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Murray Shepherd Date
University Librarian
TABLE 1: Summary of Direct UW Library Expenditures on Library Resources for Chemical Engineering from 1994 - 2001 (CDN $)
* Figures for 2000/2001 are estimates of expenditures
| Year | Serials Expenditures | Books Expenditures | Approval Plan Support | Total Expenditures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994/95 | 129,203 |
17,242 |
5,352 |
151,797 |
| 1995/96 | 144,697 |
20,882 |
4,635 |
170,214 |
| 1996/97 | 138,864 |
17,580 |
7,052 |
163,496 |
| 1997/98 | 163,973 |
11,506 |
4,684 |
180,163 |
| 1998/99 | 194,119 |
20,566 |
5,184 |
219,869 |
| 1999/00 | 187,554 |
15,851 |
4,328 |
207,733 |
| 2000/00* | 176,724 |
14,403 |
3.811 |
191,131 |
| TOTALS | 1,135,134 |
118,030 |
31,239 |
1,284,403 |
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