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Environmental Organization Web Directory - Health
Part of a more comprehensive directory, Health, leads you to environmental websites and publications from Air Purification to Viruses. The more comprehensive directory of the Environment can be accessed from this page as well, and offers a selection of varied links dealing with such subjects as Environmental Businesses and Endangered Species.Glossary of Environmental Health Terms
This glossary is intended to help people become familiar with the terms they are likely to see in government reports, engineering studies, and health literature. It is divided into four sections: Terms, Agencies, Units of Measure, and Conversion Tables.Health, Environment, and Work
This site provides many academically based educational resources (also available as FAQs), a search facility, as well as vetted and updated 'links' relating to Occupational and Environmental Health and Medicine.Occupational and Environmental Health Website
This website leads you to academically based World Wide Web sources in Occupational and Environmental Health and Medicine.
Associations / Government Agencies
American Board of Industrial Hygiene
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
The mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by understanding each of these elements and how they interrelate. Check out this comprehensive website of environmental health information.Occupational Safety and Health Administration
TOXNET
Specialized Information Service's Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP, http://tox.nlm.nih.gov) produces TOXNET, a collection of toxicology and environmental health databases that includes the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), a database of potentially hazardous chemicals, TOXLINE (containing references to the world's toxicology literature), and ChemIDplus (a chemical dictionary and structure database). Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
This link provides a search engine of chemicals that are monitored by EPA's Major Program Systems: Air (AFS), Water (PCS), Hazardous Waste (RCRIS), Superfund (CERCLIS), and Toxics Release Inventory (TRIS).
The following annotations describe the art-related databases to which FLITE subscribes. The use of these databases is restricted to Ferris-affiliated faculty, students, and staff. Those affiliated with Ferris, please click here for directions for off-campus use.
Agricola
This database provides over 3 million citations covering every major agricultural subject including forestry, ecology, natural resources, water resources and soils.Applied Science and Technology Abstracts (ASTA)
ASTA contains abstracts for articles published in more than 600 English-language scientific and technical periodicals. Subjects covered include chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer technology, geology, and engineering.BasicBiosis
BasisBiosis includes citations from over 350 core journals in the life sciences. Subjects include biology, biotechnology, botany, ecology, environment, genetics, medicine, and physiology.Biological and Agricultural Index
This database contains about 750,000 citations to journal articles, conference proceedings and technical reports relating to the fields of agriculture, botany, ecology, forestry, genetics, microbiology, and zoology.General Science Abstracts
General Science Abstracts is a general index to over 100 English-language science journals. Full-text is available for selected records.Medline
Updated daily, Medline is a source for clinical medical information covering all aspects of biomedicine, including allied health fields; biological and physical sciences; and humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. It contains over 12 million records, many with substantial abstracts and some full-text articles. Coverage is from 1965-present.
Hazardous and Toxic Substances
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
MSDS Search
This site offers free searching for over one million MSDS.
Back | Library Home | Reference HomeResearch Guide: Environmental Health and Safety (PDF)
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Last update: July 27, 2004