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Databases - bibliographic information
[UW] requires UW NetID
& password for off-campus access
- Biosis Previews [UW] - citations to articles, book chapters &
conference proceedings on the biological & life sciences, including
toxicology, pharmacology, public health, radiation biology &
ecology.
- Chemical Abstracts [UW] - client/server interface via
SciFinder Scholar.
- CINAHL
[UW] - coverage of literature in the nursing & allied
health disciplines.
- EMBASE – a biomedical and
pharmacological database indexing several thousand international
journals.
- PubMed [Medline] – peer-reviewed journal
information on
human health & the environment, covering aspects of biomedicine,
occupational health & safety topics. Includes the TOXLINE Core
subset of toxicology literature. PubMed search
tips
- TOXLINE
– the
National Library of Medicine’s toxicology database, which includes
journal literature, technical reports & research projects.
- Additional UW databases for useful
information [UW]:
- PAIS
International - social & public policy issues, economics, government,
human rights & politics.
- PsycINFO
- psychology
& psychological aspects of
medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, pharmacology, physiology,
business & law.
- Sociological
Abstracts - sociology,
anthropology, communications, economics, medicine, demography,
political science & social psychology.
Databases
- news sources [UW]
- Lexis-Nexis
- an extensive
array of full-text, international news coverage from newspapers, wire
services, media transcripts & newsletters.
- ProQuest - indexing and full-text
coverage in a wide range of databases including National Newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal); Washington
State Newsstand (Seattle Times
& P-I, Tacoma News Tribune,
Spokane Spokesman Review);
journals & magazines covering the sciences, medicine, social
sciences, business and other subjects.
Databases – factual & chemical information
- TOXNET – a
collection of data & specialty sources from the NLM covering
toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health & toxic
releases, including:
- ChemID Plus - a locator database of
chemical records & structures (graphical); it’s a good place
to determine what information exists about a chemical, including the
CAS #, & where more can be found.
- Haz-Map
– an
informational database on hazardous chemicals & occupational diseases
which is also searchable by job type.
- HSDB
(Hazardous Substances Data Bank) -
a large
collection of peer-reviewed records focusing on the toxicology of
hazardous chemicals for humans and animals, including exposure, safety,
environmental fate & regulation. Search by chemical name or
CAS #.
- IRIS
(Integrated Risk Information System) – a small number of records
weighted toward cancer risk from the EPA in support of human health
risk assessment, focusing on hazard identification & dose-response
assessment.
- TOXMAP
– a
GIS-based interactive website that maps the environmental release of
toxic chemicals in the United
States, based on the EPA’s TRI
(Toxics Release Inventory) database which now has only limited updates.
- ToxSeek
– a
meta-search and clustering engine that enables simultaneous searching of
multiple web resources from TOXNET,
the NLM, NIH, and other federal government & international
agencies & societies.
- Where to
find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet – MSDS include chemical and
physical properties, health hazards, personal protection, first aid,
handling, storage, cleanup and disposal.
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Sites - factual data sources
National agencies
Washington State
Other Web
Sites - subject directories
Online
reference books [UW]
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