Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Resources The Role of the National Library of Medicine (1997) / Chapter Skim
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covering the scientific literature on AIDS and re lated topics AIDSTRIALS a factual online database (available on MEDLARS) con taining information on the clinical trials of substances being evaluated for use against AIDS, HIV infection, and AIDS-related opportunistic diseases AOEC Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry CANCERLIT Cancer Literature, a bibliographic online database (available on MEDLARS)
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sponsored by NCI containing scien tifically evaluated data derived from carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition tests CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CD-ROM compact disk read-only memory # CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensa tion, and Liability Act of 1980, also known as the Super fund Act ChemID Chemical Identification, a nonroyalty chemical nomen clature and dictionary online database (available on MEDLARS) containing information on more than 294,000 chemical substances CHEMLEARN a computer-based tutorial, developed by SIS, to teach librarians, information specialists, and scientists how to effectively search ChemID and CHEMLINE CHEMLINE Chemical Dictionary Online, a royalty chemical no menclature and dictionary online database (available on MEDLARS)
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Department of Transportation Environmental Health Policy Committee, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances MEDLARS software designed for bibliographic retrieval; a gateway links ELHILL to TOXNET allowing users to search all NLM databases.
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created by EPA containing peer-reviewed genetic toxicology data on approximately 3,000 chemicals Grateful Med an NLM-developed software package that facilitates searching of MEDL1NE and other NLM online files HBCUs Historically Black Colleges and Universities HIC Health Information Center of the Wheaton Regional Library, Montgomery County, MD; NLM sponsors a project in conjunction with HIC to provide environ mental health and HIV/AIDS information resources to the general public. lIIV human immunodeficiency virus
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International Agency for Research on Cancer Institute of Medicine Integrated Risk Information System, a factual online database produced by EPA (available on MEDLARS through TOXNET) containing information on the carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic health risk assessment of more than 660 chemical substances Information Systems Grants, grants available through NLM that provide funds for improving or expanding access to information technologies; larger hospitals and academic health centers are the primary recipients of these grants.
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13 6 TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INFORMA TION MEDLARS Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, NLM's network of more than 40 online bibliographic and factual databases MEDLINE Medical Literature Online, NLM's major bibliographic database covering the biomedical literature MED75, 80, 85, back files of MEDLINE 90 MeSH Medical Subject Headings, NLM's controlled vocabu lary thesaurus consisting of terms arranged in both an alphabetical and a hierarchical structure Metathesaurus a knowledge source component of UMLS that estab lishes conceptual links between biomedical terms from diverse source vocabularies and classifications MTD maximum threshold dosage NAS National Academy of Sciences NCEH National Center for Environmental Health NCI National Cancer Institute NCTR National Center for Toxicological Research NEDI National Environmental Data Index NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences NIH National Institutes of Health NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NLM National Library of Medicine NN/LM National Network of Libraries of Medicine, a network of more than 4,500 health science libraries NTIS National Technical Information Service
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POISINDEX a commercial database produced by Micromedex, Inc., that provides toxicity and treatment information for ex posures to household products and other chemical sub stances R&D research and development RML Regional Medical Library, major health science libraries that administer and coordinate services in the eight geo graphical regions of the NN/LM RN Chemical Abstracts Registry Number RTECS Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, a factual online database produced by NIOSH (available on MEDLARS through TOXNET) that provides chemi cal toxicity data on more than 133,000 substances SARA Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (1986)
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TIPCOM Toxicology Information Program Committee, a National Academy of Sciences advisory committee that provided policy and technical advice to SIS from 1969 to 1994 TOMES Toxicology, Occupational Medicine, and Environmental Series, a commercial database produced by Micro medex, Inc., that provides medical and hazard manage ment information for exposures to chemical substances TOXLINE Toxicology Information Online, a multicomponent, non royalty bibliographic online database (available on MEDLARS) providing citations to the worldwide litera ture on toxicology and related fields TOXLINE65 TOXLINE backfire that primarily covers citations from 1965 to 1980 TOXLIT Toxicology Literature, a royalty-based bibliographic online database (available on MEDLARS)
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containing summarized information on the health, ecological effects, safety, and handling of chemicals listed in TRI Toxic Substance Control Act (1976) Toxic Substances Control Act Inventory Unified Medical Language System, a multicomponent NLM research and development initiative working on the retrieval and integration of biomedical information from a variety of sources World Wide Web
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