Environmental Chemistry Internet Resources

Deborah Carter Peoples, Science Librarain, is the librarian liaison to the Chemistry department.

• ECDIN - Environmental Chemicals Data and Information Network: ECDIN was created by the Joint Research Centre of the Commission of European Communities. It is designed as an instrument to enable people engaged in environmental management and research to obtain reliable information on chemical products. Its aim is to bring together a wide variety of data on chemicals which are being produced by human activity in such amounts as to be actually or potentially of environmental significance.
• EnviroLink - Community - Ecology - Connection: a holistic site dealing with issues of the environment. It has a very good search engine and also covers current EnviroNews. This site may prove very useful for some environmental topics.
• Environment - The Argus Clearinghouse: identifies, describes, evaluates and provides access to internet-based subject guides. The guides are organized by subject. The Environment guide is fairly broad and may prove useful for student of Environmental Chemistry.
• Enviro-Net - Digital Resources for the Environment Professionals: links to environmental industry news stories, federal, state, local/regional, and international regulatory resources as well as technical information and an archive of MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets)
• EPA Toxic Substances List: compiled by the US Environmental Protection Agency which gives a hazards summary and workplace exposure limits for toxic substances.
• EXTOXNET - The EXtension TOXicology NETwork: a source of objective, science-based information about pesticides. The information has been compiled by toxicologists and chemists from the Extension Services of University of California at Davis, Oregon State University, Michigan State University, and Cornell University.
• US Environmental Protection Agency: an incredibly rich source of information. All of the public information put out by the EPA may be searched for on this server. In addition to the main server, the EPA maintains 11 other databases, each of which can be searched from this site. Of these eleven, two deserve note: the Envirofacts Database and the Emviro$en$e Web Server. Federal Register notices pertaining to the environment may also be searched from this site.
• Yahoo! - Science: Chemistry
  Yahoo! - Science: Ecology: The Yahoo Search Engine gives good coverage to chemistry and ecology sites that may be of use to students of Environmental Chemistry.

This resource guide prepared by Deborah Carter Peoples, Science Branch Manager.