Environmental & Occupational Health Toolkit
Data Resources
Ecology's online databases and GIS data.
Washington State Dept of Health
UW HSL guide to sources for local, state, national and international statistics and data in the field of health sciences.
Bibliographic Databases
Food, nutrition, agricultural economics, veterinary medicine and parasitology.
Comprehensive coverage (1969-present) of international life science journal and meeting literature.
Abstracts of international agricultural literature, including animal and plant breeding, genetics, and nutrition.
Studies about animals as sentinels of human environmental health hazards.
(Elsevier) Biomedical and pharmacological database indexing 7500 journals from over 70 countries, and over 260,000 conference abstracts.
Covers articles, books, technical reports, and proceedings about toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical, and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
Searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions.
Access to Chemical Abstracts databases.
Access available through 12/31/12. Database covering journals, conference proceedings, and other literature in the sciences & social sciences. Includes citation linking and tracking.
Multidisciplinary database covering journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with searchable cited references.
Textbooks & Reports
ebooks in subject areas including environmental, food, and pharmaceutical sciences, and industrial safety & hygiene.
A comprehensive index to dissertations from all fields of study, 1861-present. Fulltext available 1997 forward.
New York Academy of Medicine Library report of new publications in health services and selected public health topics. Searchable catalog.
(formerly National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides)
NIOSH program to stimulate innovative research and improved workplace practices
Search for U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical and engineering business-related information.
Independent, nonprofit environmental research and communications center.
Portal to government agencies, NGOs, universities, professional societies, and other groups addressing issues related to toxicology, public health, and environmental health.
News
Washington Toxics Coalition
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis newsletter
Journals
Chemical Resources & Tools
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
Occupational health and toxicology database designed to link jobs and hazardous job-related tasks to exposure to chemicals and occupational diseases and their symptoms.
(Thomson Healthcare) Clinical information on toxicology, drugs, drug interactions, and reproductive risks.
Pesticide reregistration status (EPA)
e-maps to explore on-site toxic chemical releases and hazardous waste sites from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL).
Hazardous substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.
Tutorial on campus environmental management regulations and practices.
NLM project using model town to provide information to a general audience on common environmental hazards.
Additional Library Resources
HSL Librarians: Sarah Safranek and Lisa Oberg
