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Petroleum Engineering Handbook online

PetroWiki was created from the seven volume Petroleum Engineering Handbook (PEH) published by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). PetroWiki preserves the PEH content in unaltered form while allowing SPE's membership to update and expand content from the published version

Find data for your projects and papers

Knovel
Find data whether buried in a table, graph, or chart inside hundreds of ebooks. Data can be sorted, filtered, and extracted to other formats, such as Excel, ASCII, and HTML.

You can also search across the ebooks for any topic. Especially good for lab reports.

DIPPR801
Process design data of physical, thermodynamic, and transport properties for industrially important chemicals used in chemical process and equipment design

Find journal articles

Petroleum Abstracts TULSA Database
Premier resource for petroleum exploration and production journal literature
OnePetro
Full text of SPE papers, Offshore Technology Conference papers and others

AAPG Datapages
Full text of AAPG Bulletin and other AAPG publications
GeoRef
Premier geology database from American Geological Institute
ScienceDirect
Full text of Elsevier journals, the largest publisher of science and technology journals
Web of Science
Highly cited journals in the sciences and engineering. Find who cited who from 1955-present
Scopus
Similar to Web of Science for citation searching. Find who cited who from 1996-present. Covers more publications than Web of Science.
Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary database that includes peer reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers
ABI/INFORM Collection
Find business related articles from Oil and Gas Journal and other sources.

Find theses and dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database indexes over 2.4 million dissertations and theses from around the world. Nearly one million are available in full text.

Find patents

There are many sources for searching patents. While they include similar content, the search options,features, and sometimes search results often differ.

(To decipher the parts of a patent, refer to How to Read a US Patent from Queens University.)

US Patent and Trademark Office
Usually updated through most recent business day. (Clunky search interface.)
Google Patents (advanced search)
After getting a list of results, use the drop down "Tools" for more options.
The "Find Prior Art" button, available when displaying a specific patent, does a keyword search of the tools displayed (Google Scholar, Google Books etc) and may provide some leads.
FreePatentsOnline search page
More search options than google patents search page.
European Patent Office (Espacenet)
Includes patents from more than 80 countries

Organize and cite your sources

RefWorks
Web based. Free to UH faculty and students

RefWorks Guide
A useful guide to become familiar with the interface and use of RefWorks.
Endnote
Requires software purchase from Cougar Byte or use in the Learning Commons
EndNote Web Guide
Useful guide to get familiar with the interface and use of EndNote Web.

EndNote Web
Web based. Not as many features as Endnote

Mendeley
Web based but has desktop plugin too. Free. Unlike others, it has collaboration and networking features.

Schaum's Study Guides

Work through solved problems using Schaum's Study Guides.

Find high impact journals

InCites Journal Citation Reports
Critically evaluate and compare journals in the sciences and social sciences using citation data from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. Use JCR to find the most frequently cited journals, and measure research influence through impact factor, aggregate impact factor, the aggregate immediacy index, aggregated cited half-life, and the number of articles in each category. Full name of the database is Incites Journal Citation Reports.

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