Chemistry Subject Guide - Environmental Chemistry

Selected Web Sites

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  Envirofacts Data Warehouse
  Environmental Data and Tools for Scientific Inquiry

Includes test methods, emissions/releases data, environmental fate models, risk assessments, and more.

• Environmental Fate Data Base

Provides environmental fate data as well as physical or chemical properties of commercially important chemical compounds.

• Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia


• National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI)

A clearinghouse of methods and procedures for regulatory and non-regulatory analyses.

• National Library of Medicine

An excellent resource for toxicological and environmental health information. TOXNET is a cluster of databases that provides a wealth of information on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.

• Scorecard

Provides authoritative information about pollution problems and toxic chemicals by company and geographic area.

• Chemical Profiles

Provides information on over 11,200 regulated chemicals.

Selected Databases

• Biological Abstracts, 1969-

Covers over 9,000 journals in all areas of life science.

• PubMed, 1966-

Covers more than 4,800 biomedical journals. It is possible to limit to the Toxicology Subset.

• SciFinder Scholar, 1907-

The most comprehensive bibliographic database for the chemical literature. Requires downloading client software to search. Off-campus access is available only through ERA accounts.

• Web of Science, 1900-

Indexes articles and cited references from over 8,000 journals primarily in the sciences.