27 Jan 2012
*NLM Technical Bulletin, Jan-Feb 2012, The National Library of Medicine TOXMAP and TOXNET Now Include 2010 EPA Toxics Release
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf12/brief/jf12_sis_toxmap.html
From: NLM New files for the week of Jan 23, 2012
More information is here at Toxmap News: http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/news/2012/01/toxmap-now-includes-tri-2010-data.html
*NLM Technical Bulletin, Nov-Dec 2011, TOXMAP: Learn About Toxic Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd11/nd11_sis_reprint_toxmap.html
Source: NLM New files for the week of Dec 12, 2011
New Toxicology Tutorial Available
Source: Special Libraries Association, ERMD Newsletter, Winter 2010.
“ToxLearn, a new NLM resource, is now available. http://toxlearn.nlm.nih.gov
ToxLearn is a multi-module online learning tool that provides an introduction to toxicology. It can be used as an ancillary curriculum to a first-level undergraduate toxicology course, and can provide users of NLM’s toxicology databases with a working knowledge of basic toxicology principles. ToxLearn modules will be made available as they are completed. Module 1 covers “Toxicology and Dose Response.”
NLM® Resource — Haz-Map® Update from NLM-ANNOUNCES@LIST.NIH.GOV
[Editor’s Note: This is a reprint of an announcement published on NLM-Tox-Enviro-Health-L, an e-mail announcement list available from the NLM Division of Specialized Information Services. To subscribe to this list, please see the NLM-TOX-ENVIRO-HEALTH-L Join, Leave, or Change Options page.]
Haz-Map, a database from the National Library of Medicine® on the effects of occupational exposure to potentially toxic agents, has added 265 agents.
These agents include 60 assorted metal compounds, 100 rare earth metals, 10 uranium compounds, and 16 metallic perchlorate compounds. Also added are 9 thiols, 4 sulfites, 20 nitriles, 6 glycol ethers, 4 fluorides, 7 aldehydes, and 5 acid anhydrides.
Haz-Map is an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biologicals at work. Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms. It covers 3218 agents and 225 occupational diseases.
More information about Haz-Map can be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/hazmap.html
September 9, 2009: Toxipedia.org, in partnership with the USA National Library of Medicine (NLM), the International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX), and the Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders (INND), announces the launch of the World Library of Toxicology, Chemical Safety, and Environmental Health, briefly referred to as the World Library of Toxicology (WLT) (http://www.wltox.org).
This free global Web portal provides the scientific community and public with links to major government agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, professional societies, and other groups addressing issues related to toxicology, public health, and environmental health.
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment is the source of the above text.
More details are reported here, in the NLM Technical Bulletin, No. 360, dated January/February 2008. This information was also disseminated via NLM-Tox-Enviro-Health-L…with an invitation to subscribe.
Among the entries under Articles and Databases from the Library’s homepage you will find TOXLINE which is specific, bibliographic database in the TOXNET group of databases.
ToxSeek is also listed which is a “meta” & clustering search engine for many governmental resources on environmental health and toxicology .