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To request a book or an article we don't have in our collection please fill this request form:
Interlibrary Loan Request Form
If you have any questions regarding your request, send an email to ill@ku.ac.ae.
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You will find books and other material of interest and relevance to General Chemistry in different areas throughout the Library. Listed below are popular terms that are used in the study of Chemistry. Note that some words are related and are found near each other on the shelves.
Chemistry -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Theses, dissertations and student projects can be found from ProQuest Database
Search under University name you will get the results HERE
Theses and dissertations from other institutions:
EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts
1861 to date, with abstracts from July 1980. Covers over 2,700,000 titles.
This database has a US-bias and is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research in the US.
Australasian Digital Theses Program
A distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. Full text of some theses is available.
The access point for Canadian theses and information about the Theses Canada program. Full text electronic versions of numerous Canadian theses and dissertations are available.
Access to over 100,000 full-text research theses from various European countries
Books and other material of interest and relevance to Physical Chemistry can be found in different areas throughout the Library. Listed below are important Library of Congress Call Number (LCCN) areas that are used in the study of Chemistry.
| HD9560-9663 | Chemical Industries |
| QC319.8 | Heat Transfer (Physics) |
| QD281 | Catalysis – Organic Chemistry |
| QD505 | Catalysis – Inorganic Chemistry |
| QD565 | Electrochemistry |
| QD503 | Chemical Equilibrium, Phase Rule |
| QD901 | Fluid Mechanics – Crystallography |
| TA357 | Applied Fluid Mechanics (General Engineering) |
| TD500-780 | Sewage Collection and Disposal Systems |
| TD881-TD883 | Air Pollution |
| TN879.56 | Petroleum Pipelines – Fluid Mechanics |
| TP155-TP156 | Chemical Engineering – Mass Transfer |
| TP200-TP248 | Chemicals |
| TP690-TP692.5 | Mineral Oils and Waxes |
| TP751-TP762 | Oil & Gas Processing/Gas Industry |