The Polymer Library (formerly Rapra Abstracts) contains scientific, technical and company publications on rubber, plastics, adhesives and polymer composites published worldwide.

The bibliographic database contains over 1 million references since 1972, covering mainly commercial, marketing and academic aspects of the rubber and plastics industry. Sources include journals, books, conference papers, reports, standards, company publications and other non-conventional literature.
The bibliographic data, classification and descriptors as well as the abstracts are searchable.

Access is via the homepage of the University Library → Electronic Media → Testing → Polymer Library.

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Contact:

Ralf Schwarzbach
Head Librarian

Center for Communication and Information
- University Library -

E-mail: ralf.schwarzbach(at)hszg.de