Yale Science Libraries -- Summary list of resources for
Environmental Chemistry of Pollution (FES 545A) Fall 1996

Databases, indexes, and bibliographies for identifying article citations:

1. - Biosis
   
2. - Pollution & Toxicology Database (PolTox)
   
3. - Aquatic Biology
   
4. - Science Citation Index
   
5. - Current Contents (the latest 6 months of science literature)
   
6. - Environment Abstracts
   
7. - Environmental Bibliography
   
8. - Water Resources Abstracts
   
9. - TreeCD
   
10. - GeoRef
    
11. - Chemical Abstracts
    
12. - Global Marine Pollution Bibliography
    
13. - Ozone Chemistry and Technology: a review of the literature 1961-1974
    

Sample searches and results:

1. - Biosis - k=(NITROGEN AND FOREST?) and PRODUCTIVITY
   
2. - Biosis - k=(WATER POLLUTION) and NONPOINT
   
3. - PolTox - Find: (TRACE ELEMENTS) and NUTRIENT
   
4. - Aquatic Biology - HEAVY METAL and CORAL REEF
   
5. - Chemical Abstracts - its General Subjects Index
   
6. - Science Citation Index - identify citings to a known author or publication using a CITATION search
   These sources provide data or facts in addition to related citations:
   
7. - Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds -
   "use" or "importance" limiting search words include: biological, conductor, jewellery, photography, coolant, construction
   
8. - Beilstein Crossfire (organic compounds - properties and reactions information)
   

Selected Internet sites:

1 - Science Libraries Navigator -- connections to databases and HELP

http://www.library.yale.edu/scilib/library.html

2 - Indexes to search organization names on the Internet:

http://www.library.yale.edu/scilib/biol/biol.html#comp

3 - National Pollutant Release Inventory - Canada

http://ellesmere.ccm.emr.ca/npri/clone/npri.html

4 - Chemical Health & Safety Data -- searchable

http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov

5 - Material Safety Data Sheets

- 100,000 sheets searchable by chemical name or producer - via Univ. of Vermont

- Fisher Chemical Co. - see their Acros Chemical Catalog or their Chemicals Catalog

- 77,000 sheets for Sigma, Aldrich, and Fluka chemicals - cd-rom at Kline Library

6 - Chemicals in the Environment

http://www.epa.gov/docs/cie/

7 - Toxic Releases Inventory - by state -- cd-rom also at Government Documents Center

http://www.epa.gov/docs/TRI_Cover93/

8 - EPA Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances

http://www.epa.gov/PestToxics.html

9 - Eco-Net Toxics, Hazards, and Wastes

http://www.igc.org/igc/issues/tw/

10 - EcoNet's other environmental sites

http://www.econet.apc.org/econet/en.other.html

Selected reference works:

1. - Dictionary of Ecology and Environmental Science - Kline Reference GE 10 D53X 1993
   
2. - Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology - Kline Reference QH 540.4 +E52X 1995
   
3. - Great Events from History II - Ecology and the Environment Series
   Kline Reference GE 150 672X 1995
   
4. - Environment and the Law: a Dictionary - Kline Reference KF 3775 A68 P38X 1995
   
5. - Merck Index - (encyclopedia of chemicals with name, registry no. indices) Kline Reference RS 356 M4
   

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