Environmental Health
This is a general research guide for the undergraduate and graduate courses in OSU's Health program. You'll find suggestions for locating books, articles, topical overviews, research tools, and factual information. If further assistance is needed, please contact the subject librarian for Environmental Health: Alison Bobal, ph# 737-7274, alison.bobal@oregonstate.edu
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Finding Books
OSU Libraries Online Catalog: OSU Libraries Online Catalog is the primary finding tool for locating books, journals, conference proceedings, government documents and reports in the library. You can search by author, title, and subject. Keyword searching is also available, as are other searches, such as call number, government document number (SuDoc and OrDoc), and ISSN/ISBN.
Summit (Orbis): OSU is part of Summit, a combined online catalog for many academic libraries in Washington and Oregon. Links from the OSU Libraries Online Catalog allow you to duplicate a search in Summit, and if the item is available at another library, you can request it and it will be delivered within three days to The Valley Library Circulation desk.
WorldCat: Index to over 30 million records cataloged by most North American and European libraries. Materials indexed include books, journals, conferences, films, videos, recordings, musical scores, computer software, maps and manuscripts. Materials date back to the 11th century.
Finding Journal Articles
Basic searching
- Academic Search Premier - Includes basic, popular coverage of all areas, including science. The Valley Library subscribes to most of the journals covered, some of which are also included full-text in the database. Primarily useful for getting background information. Coverage is from 1975-present.
- Health Source - Available as an academic or a consumer edition. Provides full text for nearly 550 health periodicals, including almost 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also includes over 1,000 health pamphlets and over 130 health reference books. Coverage is from 1975-present.
Comprehensive searching
- AGRICOLA - A comprehensive index covering all areas of agriculture including biological, economic, environmental and sociological issues related to agriculture. Coverage is from 1970- present.
- Biological Abstracts/BIOSIS - Contains information on all aspects of biology, including biochemistry, endocrinology, genetics, microbiology, molecular and cellular biology, and physiology. This databases indexes over 6,000 serials published in over 90 countries, as well as monographs, published theses, literature reviews, symposia, conference proceedings, bibliographies, institutional or governmental reports and scientific book reviews. Coverage is from 1990-present.
- CAB Abstracts - Covers journal articles, conference proceedings and other materials in agriculture, forestry, nutrition and veterinary medicine. International scope. Coverage is from 1973-present.
- Environmental Science & Pollution Management (ESPM) - Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary index to research articles from all fields in the environmental sciences. Indexes U.S. government environmental impact statements. Coverage is from 1967-present.
- MEDLINE - NLM's biomedical bibliographic database of over 15 million citations. Contains information related to clinical and experimental medicine; health care administration; microbiology; nursing; pathology; pharmacology; physiology; reproductive biology; psychology; toxicology; and veterinary medicine. Coverage is from 1950-present.
- Poisondex - Part of the Micromedex database series. Use to identify and provide ingredient information on commercial, industrial, pharmaceutical and botanical substances.
- Science Citation Index - A comprehensive index of citation from science and engineering journals. Subject searching is limited to keywords from article titles. Citations from over 3000 major journals covering about 100 scientific disciplines. (1996-present) online / (1985-1995) - only on Valley CD network / (1955-1991) - print, Ref Z7402.S35.
- SciFinder Scholar - SciFinder Scholar provides electronic searching of Chemical Abstracts (CA) and the CAS Registry file. CA is the world's largest and most up-to-date collection of chemical information, with nearly 16 million abstracts of journal articles, patents, and more. CAS Registry contains more than 24,000,000 substance records, including more than 16,000,000 organic and inorganic substances and 4,000,000 biosequences. The Registry is the world's largest collection of organic substance records.
1907-present - Toxline - An extensive collection of bibliographic information covering the pharmacological, biochemical, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
Reference Sources
Handbooks & directories // Statistics
Handbooks & directories
- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR): Current regulations. Environment is CFR-40.
- Congressional Bills & Records
- GPO Access
- - Federal Register
- - Government Accounting Office (GAO) Reports
- - History of Bills
- - U.S. Code
- - U.S. Budget
- OSHA - Includes full-text of the following: OSHA Act of 1970 with revisions; OSHA regulations and standards; federal register index to OSHA regulations.
- Supreme Court Reporter
Statistics
In addition to statistics that appear in articles, reports, and congressional hearings.
- American Statistics Index - This reference source is published by the Congressional Information Service. It is a bibliography of statistics produced by the U.S. This index is located in the Government Documents area of The Valley Library. Doc/HA154 .A431
- Morbidity & Mortality weekly report - Indexed in MEDLINE and on MMWR website.
- Statistical Abstracts of the United States - A compilation of statistics from U.S. governmental agencies. Contains a keyword index. Most statistical tables indicate the source that the statistics were derived from. Located in the Reference area of The Valley Library. HA202. This resource is also available via the web at Statistical Abstracts of the United States.
Other Useful Internet Sites
- Agency for Toxic Substance & Disease Register (ATSDR)
Web site: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov - Environmental Data Needed for Public Health Assessments at: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ednpha.html
- EPA IRIS at: http://www.epa.gov/iris
- EPA Region IX PRG at: http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/sfund/prg/index.htm
- Science Center at: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/science/
- Superfund sites: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hazdat.html
- ToxFAQs: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html
Also includes public health statements, reports to Congress and more. - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Web Site: www.cdc.gov - DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research
Web site: www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/ober_top.html - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Web site: www.epa.gov
Rules, regulations, etc.: www.epa.gov/epahome/rules.html - Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
Web site: www.fda.gov - National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
Web site: http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/default.htm - National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Web site: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Web site: ehis.niehs.nih.gov - National Technical Information Service (NTIS) (Web)
Website: http://www.ntis.gov/
EPA, DOE and other agency technical reports not printed by GPO, which is most.
Privately contracted research and international reports too. - Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
Web site: www.osha.gov
Directives, settlements, standards, etc.
Statistics: www.osha.gov/oshstats/index.html - Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Web site: www.deq.state.or.us
News, regulations, etc. - TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)
Web site: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/ - United Nations Environmental Programme
Web site: www.unep.ch/
International environmental issues, programs and groups. - U.S. Public Health Service
Web site: www.hhs.gov/pharmacy/pp/DHHSpresent/index.htm - World Health Organization
Web site: www.who.int - Envirolink: Non-profit organization with links to environmental groups and information on all topics from all over the world.
Web site: envirolink.org - Environmental Health Sciences Center - Oregon State University
Web site: http://www.ehsc.orst.edu/outreach/community.htm
Other Useful Subject Research Guides
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