Fogler Guide to Pulp and Paper Industry & Engineering

The following are selected resources that are available at Fogler Library or on the Internet. If you have questions about finding information related to the Pulp & Paper Industry, please contact the Science and Engineering Center: 581-1691 or email Martin Wallace. Or use our Ask a Librarian service.

INDEXES & DATABASES

• Chemical Abstracts. (Sci Index QD7.C44) Online access now available through SciFinder Scholar,1907 to present. Software needs to be loaded on your computer to utilize SciFinder Scholar. We have a contract for just one user at a time but the service is available almost 24/7. This is the major indexing source for the worldwide chemical literature. Published by the American Chemical Society. Approximately 14,000 journals are monitored, plus patents, conference proceedings, and other types of literature.
• Compendex (Engineering Index). Coverage is 1970 - Present. The best multidisciplinary engineering database that indexes over 5000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Use their subject headings to obtain more precise results. Access is provided by the following indexes: author, author's affiliation (university or company), keywords from the abstract and title, subject terms and source title (journal or conference title). Compendex is part of the Engineering Village. This service also provides specialized indexing of the Internet, a technical standards database, and a link to the U.S. Patent Database. Print copy in Sci Index TA1.E6, 1884 - 1995.
• Web of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Citation searching provides one method for bringing your list of references more up-to-date. Take your most important known papers and use this index to determine if they have been cited by more recent journal articles. They index over 8,500 journals but do not include technical reports, conference papers or theses.
• Academic Search Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Good resource for a few basic articles on a topic. This database is designed for undergraduate research. For a more comprehensive search, search Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Master File Premier at the same time. Select the Choose Databases link in the EBSCO interface to select multiple databases.
• ACS Journal Archives. Full Text of all ACS journals from volume 1 up until 5 years ago. Includes important titles: Biotechnology Progress, Environmental Science and Technology, and Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Provides for locating a known citation or searching by author, keywords or the full text of the articles.
• Business Source Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 3200 business and industry journals. Coverage is back to the 1950's for some important publications and contains detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies.
• Digital Dissertations. Indexes dissertations and theses written by graduates of North American and European universities. The complete text of dissertations written at the University of Maine after 1996 is included.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Provides access to the full text of over 1100 free scholarly journals. Some journals are searchable at the article level. Also provides access by broad subject areas.
• Forest Products Abstracts. Coverage from 1978 to present.. Index to all aspects of the forest products literature including wood properties, timber extraction and damage, composites and laminates, pulp industry, and business issues. This databases is updated bi-monthly and indexes over 450 journals (see Serials cited in Forest Products Abstracts). Print index located at: Sci Index SD 430 F66.
• Google Scholar. Beta version, under construction. Indexes scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Google Scholar includes articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results based on their relevance criteria.
• Health and Safety Science Abstracts. Coverage is 1981 - present. Provides citations and abstracts to the literature on public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Draws on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications. Major areas of subject coverage include occupational safety and health, transportation, environmental and ecology, food and drugs, pesticides, natural disasters, toxicology, etc.
• MasterFILE Premier. PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE. Provides full text for over 1,830 general reference, business, consumer health, general science. Full text extends back to January, 1990. Indexing and abstracts is available for an additional 1,000 journals.
• MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
• MSDS Search - National Repository. FULL TEXT DATABASE. This site pulls together in one place a great many sites containing material safety data sheets. Large list of manufacturers is included.
• Pollution Abstracts. 1981 - present. Presented by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts this resources covers air, water, land and noise pollution. Industry pollution problems and solutions are covered. Updated monthly.
• Science Accelerator, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Search collections of DOE research results, project descriptions, and accomplishments. These collections enable you to find out about ongoing research projects, explore significant DOE discoveries, learn about DOE Nobel Prize Winners, access and search scientific e-prints, locate science conference papers and proceedings, patents, and more.
• Science.gov. Newimproved gateway to U.S. government publications and web sites. 12 major science agencies are collaborating on this project. They have recently added relevancy-ranked order to the results of a search. It includes 30 databases and over 1700 web sites.
• Science Citation Index. Paper copy at Sci Index Q1.A1S36. Holdings are 1965 to present. An excellent multidisciplinary science information source which leads you to papers that cite a paper of interest, thus resulting in records for articles that you may not find using traditional subject or keyword searching. To learn how to use it, ask a Science and Engineering Center librarian. Online access is available through Web of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present.
• ScienceDirect. FULL TEXT FOR UMAINE SUBSCRIBED JOURNAL TITLES ONLY (1800+). Online access to full text from 1995 for most titles. Sign up for automatic notification when new issues are published.
• Scirus. produced by Elsevier. Use for searching instead of ScienceDirect interface. Use this Advanced search which provides many options for full text searching and across a variety of databases.
• Virtual Technical Reports Center. Maintained by the University of Maryland Libraries. Links to institutions worldwide that provide full text and indexing to their reports, dissertations, reprints and preprints.
• Water Resources Abstracts. Index to international scientific literature on all aspects of water resource issues. Includes abstracts of journal articles, monographs, technical reports, books, and conference proceedings. Updated quarterly. Coverage is 1967 to the present.

NEWSPAPER INDEXES & ENGINEERING NEWS

• PaperAge: Industry News.
• Chemistry Headlines. From the ACS.
• EurekAlert. Service of the AAAS.
• LexisNexis Academic. Worldwide coverage of newspapers, newsletters, and trade journals with good coverage of environmental and water resources issues.
• Maine Newsstand. Indexes four Maine newspapers.
• MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.
• New York Times Article Archive. 1851− present. Full text of articles can be purchased online or use the microfilm collection in Fogler Library.
• News on the Web - Archive. Provides links to U.S. and international newspaper archives that are searchable. Also has links to TV and radio broadcast archives.
• ProQuest Newspapers. Full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002) and Central Maine Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).
• SciCentral. Gateway to the best scientific and engineering research news sources

LIBRARY CATALOGS

• URSUS. University of Maine System catalog. Use the Request function to request items from other campuses. Items are sent to Orono and loaned for 4 weeks.
• MaineCat. College and university libraries in Maine. Use the Request function to request items from other libraries. Items are sent to Orono and loaned for 4 weeks.
• WorldCat. International catalog containing the holdings of over 8,000 libraries.
• British Library. Catalogue.
• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) Catalog.

GRANT & FUNDING RESOURCES

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.
• Federal Commons. Internet grants management portal
• Federal R&D Project Summaries. Includes research summaries from DOE, NIH and NSF.
• Foundation Center. Directory of private, charitable, community, and corporate foundations. Find foundations by state, subject of support, etc.
• Grants.gov. Locate and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies.
• NSF Grant Proposal Guide. Includes proposal preparation instructions, review process, and grant administration.
• NSF Overview Funding.
• SRA International. Grants Web. Comprehensive resource from the Society of Research Administrators.

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

• Online Magazine Links from Geocities - Paperwalls.
• PaperAge.
• Paper Industry.
• PaperOnWeb - Magazines and Journals.
• Publications in Forest Products and Wood Science.

HANDBOOKS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, etc. WITH A TECHNOLOGY FOCUS

• Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
• Dictionary of Weights and Measures. Oxford Reference Online, 2002.
• Dictionary of Paper. (SciRef TS1085.A6) Non-technical definitions of terms commonly used in the U.S. paper and allied industries. Important uses, summaries of significant manufacturing history, and brief discussions of important properties are given whenever possible. Many different types of mill products are described.
• Engineering Fundamentals - EFUNDA. Materials, Formulas, Mathematics, Processes and Design, Etc.
• Handbook for Pulp & Paper Technologists. (SciRef TS1105.S674) Detailed overview of the technology of pulp and paper manufacture. Extensively illustrated.
• Handbook of Physical Testing of Paper. 2nd rev. ed. Ed. by R. E. Mark. Dekker, 2002. (SciRef TS1109.H325 2002 2 vols.).
• Handbook of Pulp and Paper Terminology. (SciRef TS1085.S66) A comprehensive collection of technical and operational terms for pulping, papermaking and related operations. Commonly used abbreviations and acronyms are included.
• IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology.
• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 4th ed. John Wiley, 1991. (SciRef TP9.E685 1991) Starting to receive the 5th ed. John Wiley, 2004. (SciRef TP0/K54 2004) Excellent resource for students and researchers of all levels. Covers all areas of chemical technology and articles are written by experts in the field. General scientific and technical articles are included. Extensive bibliographies. May need to consult the 2nd and 3rd editions for some topics in the ORO stacks.
• MatWeb. Your Source for Materials Information. Materials property data. See also the MatWeb for Composites.
• NCASI Methods Manual. Useful to companies involved in environmental monitoring, mill research programs, and analysis of environmental samples.
• NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards. Contains physical and chemical properties and exposure hazard information for several hundred chemicals that are common in the work environment.
• NIST Chemistry WebBook. Contains spectral, thermochemical, thermophysical and energetics data.
• NIST Data Gateway. Covers a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• Paper Glossary and Forest Glossary.
• Pulp and Paper Dictionary.
• Pulping and Paper Production. Technical Information Papers (SciRef Standards Collection TS1175.P8)
  Corrugated Containers& Packaging: Technical Information Papers. (SciRef Standards Collection TS1138.C6778)
  These two information sources include engineering data and "best practices" prepared by technical committees of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Updated annually.
• Riegel's Handbook of Industrial Chemistry. 10th ed. Kluwer Academic, 2003. (SciRef TP145.R54 2003)
• TAPPI Test Methods. (SciRef Standards Collection TS1109.T44) Collection of testing procedures containing all the Official Test Methods, Provisional Test Methods and Classical Methods that have been published by the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Published annually.

HANDBOOKS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, etc. WITH AN INDUSTRY FOCUS

• Directory of the Wood Products Industry. (Buyers and Sellers Directory of the Forest Products Industry). Random Lengths, 2001. . (SciRef HD9753.D57 2001) Directory of sawmills, board manufacturers, exporters, etc.
• Forest Products = Produits forestiers = Productos forestales. FAO Yearbook, 2000. (SciRef HD9750.4.Y4 2000) Compilation of statistical data on basic forest products in all countries including roundwood, wood chips, lumber, wood-based panels, pulp and paper.
• International Fact and Price Book. (SciRef HD9820.1.I58) An excellent resource for economic analysis of the pulp and paper industry. Overviews production and prices in each country. Profiles the top 150 companies.
• Lockwood-Post's Directory of the Pulp, Paper and Allied Trades. (SciRef TS1088.L822 2003) Similar to Phillips International Paper Directory, but with a North American focus and more descriptive information at the mill level.
• Lumber & panel company profiles: performance and strategy analysis of the largest North American companies. Miller Freeman, 1998. (SciRef HD9754.L8 1998)
• RISI. Contains a wide variety of information on companies, mills, news, technology, careers, etc. Also contains dictionary, encyclopedia and online trade magazine index. You may register for Gold Member status free for 60 days which provides additional resources. Fogler does not have a subscription.
• Phillips International Paper Directory. (SciRef TS 1088. P52) Lists worldwide mills, paper and paper products, merchants, distributors, trade associations, and sources of equipment and supplies.
• Piranet.com. PIRA International is an international consulting organization for the packaging and paper industry.
• Pulp and Paper Canada Annual and Directory. 2003 ed. Information on companies and plants. Contains schematics for the production process at each plant. (SciRef TK1088.P85 2003)
• Pulp and Paper Company Profiles. (SciRef TS1088.P75) Overviews the financial and business structure of the top North American companies in pulp, paper, and paperboard.
• Pulp and Paper North American Factbook. (SciRef TS1088.P86) A yearbook which provides an overview of the state of the industry in North America and Mexico. Provides detailed statistical analysis of prices, capacities, production, and consumption of various pulp, paper, and paperboard grades.

ENGINEERING STANDARDS & SPECIFICATIONS

Standards are located in the last row of reference shelving toward the center of the room. See the Engineering Standards and Specifications Guide for more information.

• NSSN. National Standards Systems Network. Searchable bibliographic database of thousands of industrial standards and specifications and links to many standards-issuing organizations.
• TechStreet Standards Index. Indexes over 500,000 standards from 10,000 organizations.

• American Society of Testing and Materials. Annual Book of ASTM Standards. (SciRef TA401.A653 Standards shelves) Have 2000 edition complete. 2002 edition has started to arrive. Older editions in ORO Stacks.
• NCASI Methods Manual. Useful to companies involved in environmental monitoring, mill research programs, and analysis of environmental samples.
• American Forest & Paper Association. International Standards Links.
• Pulping and Paper Production. Technical Information Papers (SciRef Standards Collection TS1175.P8)
  Corrugated Containers& Packaging: Technical Information Papers. (SciRef Standards Collection TS1138.C6778) These two information sources include engineering data and "best practices" prepared by technical committees of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Updated annually.
• TAPPI Test Methods. (SciRef Standards Collection TS1109.T44) Collection of testing procedures containing all the Official Test Methods, Provisional Test Methods and Classical Methods that have been published by the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Published annually.

U.S. & INTERNATIONAL PATENTS

Patents are a valuable source of information on processes and products in the chemical industry. Fogler Library is the home of the only Patent and Trademark Depository Library in Maine. Services offered include the full-text of United States patents, 1974-present, and free instruction on how to do a patent search on a topic of interest. If you need to locate a copy of a specific patent, refer to the Fogler Library Guide, "Locating Copies of Patents. "

• European Patent Office. esp@cenet. Search EP, PCT, Japanese, and other worldwide patents.
• SurfIP - The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. Provides access to world-wide patent databases.
• U.S. Patent Database.
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). PCT Full Text Database. Coverage is 1997 to present.

SELECTED INTERNET SITES

• ChemAlliance. Regulatory information for the chemical industries.
• Chemfinder.
• Chemical Engineers' Resource Page. Physical Properties on the Internet.
• Chemical Hazards Response Information System. hazardous chemical data manual. U.S. Dept. of Transportation.
• Engineers Edge. contains design and technical data, equations, current news, job announcements, links to free trade journals.
• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) on the Internet.
• MentorNet. The E-Mentoring Network for Diversity in Engineering and Science. Members get one-on-one encouragement and advice, online topic-based discussion groups, and a resume database for job seekers.
• National Science Digital Library. A digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels.
• NCASI Methods Manual. Useful to companies involved in environmental monitoring, mill research programs, and analysis of environmental samples.
• NIST Chemistry WebBook. Contains spectral, thermochemical, thermophysical and energetics data.
• NIST Data Gateway. Covers a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• PaperAge. Industry links to manufacturers, converters, associations and university programs.
• Paper Industry International Hall of Fame.
• Paperonline. Contains paper and pulp grades. Production processes see the Paper Cycle.
• Pulp and Paper.net. Prices for North American and Europe. Industry publications.

CODES OF ETHICS

• AIChE Code of Ethics.
• Codes of Ethics for Engineering.
• National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE).

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND RESEARCH GROUPS

• Alliance for Environmental Technology (AET). Dedicated to improving the environmental performance of the pulp and paper industry.
• American Chemical Society (ACS).
• American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA).
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Forest Products Division (AIChE).
• Appita. Technical association serving the Australian and New Zealand pulp and paper industry.
• ASTM International (American Society for Testing and Materials).
• Canadian Institute of Forestry.
• Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies.
• Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPA). They issue statisitcal reports for European industry.
• Forest Products Association of Canada.
• Forest Products Society.
• Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST).
• International Association of Paper Historians.
• International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA).
• Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NESC).
• National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI).
• National Paper Trade Association (NPTA).
• Paper Industry Management Association (PIMA).
• Paper Industry Technical Association. UK (PITA).
• PaperCom Alliance.
• Pulp and Paper Products Council.
• Pulp and Paper Safety Association (PPSA).
• Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada (PAPTAC).
• Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI).

MAINE ORGANIZATIONS

• Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
• Maine Economic Growth Council.
• Maine Economic Research Institute.
• Maine Engineering Promotion Council.
• Maine Forest Service. Full text publications are available at this site.
• Maine Forest Products Council.
• Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
• Maine Pulp and Paper Association.
• Maine's Sustainable Forestry Initiative. Site includes legislative updates.
• Maine Technology Institute.
• Pulp and Paper Foundation. The University of Maine.
• State Economic Brochures. Pulp and Paper Industry.
• State of Maine. Agriculture and Industry.
• University of Maine. Dept. of Chemical Engineering.
• University of Maine. Pulp and Paper Process Development Center.
• University of Maine. Paper Surface Science Program.

PAPER INDUSTRY STATISTICS

• Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies.
• Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPA). They issue statisitcal reports for European industry.
• Global Pulp & Paper Fact & Price Book 2006. RISI. (SciRef HD9824.1.P85 2006). Provides market data, key statistics and grade overviews for all major grades of pulp and paper.
• RISI. Contains a wide variety of information on companies, mills, news, technology, careers, etc. Also contains dictionary, encyclopedia and online trade magazine index. You may register for Gold Member status free for 60 days which provides additional resources. Fogler does not have a subscription.
• Pulp and Paper.net.
• Statistical Universe.

CONSIDER ENGINEERING - UNDERGRADS

• Departments of Physics, Engineering and Mathematics.
• Discover engineering.
• Engineer Girl. For everyone with lot’s of links and information
• Engineering Education Service Center. Brings together a directory of engineering schools, competitions, scholarships, events, etc.
• Engineering your Future.
• Frank Potter's Science Gems. Great links to great resources for students, parents, teachers, etc. Sorted by categories and grade levels.
• FSEA Future Scientists & Engineers of America.
• JETS – Junior Engineering Technical Society.
• Maine Engineering Promotion Council.
• National Engineers Week.
• 21 Definitions of Engineering.

GRADUATE SCHOOL & POSTDOCTORAL EXPERIENCES

• Engineering Education Service Center. Brings together a directory of engineering schools, competitions, scholarships, events, etc.
• Financial Aid. Portal to resources for scholarships, loans, savings programs, military aid, etc.
• Graduate Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans. Grants for Individuals.
• National Academy of Sciences. Careers in Science and Engineering: A Student Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond.1996.
• National Academy of Sciences. Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers. 2000.
• Nationally Coveted Scholarships, Fellowships and Postdoctoral Awards. Searchable database.
• Peterson's Guide to Graduate Programs. Also print copy at Fogler Reserve Desk. ORO Reference L901.A549. Volume 5: engineering and applied sciences.

CITATION GUIDES, WRITING MANUALS & EVALUATION CRITERIA

• Citation Styles - online. Includes MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE and other style guides.
• Citation Styles, Style Guides and Avoiding Plagarism. Univ. of California, Berkeley.
• Critically analyzing information sources and Checklist of criteria of a scholarly article and Evaluating web sites.
• IEEE Standards Style Manual. The accepted format for bibliography citations.
• Turabian Samples for a bibliography.
• Duke University. Citing sources and avoiding plagiarism. Assembling a list of cited works in your paper.
• Technical Writing: Online textbook.
• Writing Center. University of Maine.
• Writing Laboratory. Purdue University.

COMPANY & PRODUCT DIRECTORIES

• Forest Industry Network.
• Hoover's Online. The business information authority.
• Lockwood-Posts's Directory of the Pulp, Paper and Allied Trades. 2003. (SciRef TS1088.L822 2003)
• Maine Pulp and Paper Industry Directory, 2000. Maine Pulp & Paper Association. (SciRef HD9820.3.M34)
• Pulp and Paper Canada. Annual Directory. 2004. (SciRef TS1080.P85 2004)
• Pulp and Paper Directory. From PulpandPaper.net
• Pulp and Paper Technology. Extensive directory of companies and products. Also has a conference calendar.
• Thomas Register. Lists over 173,000 U.S. and Canadian manufacturers.
• Thomas Register of European Manufacturers.

INTERNET DIRECTORIES

• Canada's Forest Network.
• CHEMINFO. chemical information sources. Produced by Indiana University.
• Forest Directory.com.
• ForestWeb.com. Industry news, market analysis and prices, company and product directores.
• RISI. Contains a wide variety of information on companies, mills, news, technology, careers, etc. Also contains dictionary, encyclopedia and online trade magazine index. You may register for Gold Member status free for 60 days which provides additional resources. Fogler does not have a subscription.
• Paperonline. European portal to the paper industry and education resource.
• PaperOnWeb.com. Lists manufacturers, service providers, universities, industry and research organizations.
• Pulp and Paper.net.
• SciTechResources.gov. U.S. Government web sites
• Woodweb.

RELATED FOGLER SUBJECT GUIDES

• Fogler Guide to Chemical Engineering.
• Fogler Guide to Engineering Standards and Specifications.
• Fogler Guide to Patents and Trademarks.

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