Databases

Contaminant Exposure and Effects - Terrestrial Vertebrates Summaries of ecotoxicological exposure and effects information on terrestrial vertebrates residing in or near coastal estuarine ecosystems around the U.S. It is supported by Patuxent Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey.

International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER) is a database of human health risk values and supporting information. This is a test version of a new ITER database expanded to over 500 chemical files, with information from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and Health Canada.

University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database contains information on microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways for primarily xenobiotic, chemical compounds. The stated goal is "to provide information on microbial enzyme-catalyzed reactions that are important for biotechnology."

Environmental Health & Safety freeware developed by Donley Technology provides an extensive list of free online databases organized by topic.

ChemFinder Database and Internet searching provided by Camsoft.com.

ECOTOX EPA's ECOTOXicology database is a source for locating single chemical toxicity data for aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife.

IRIS EPA's Integrated Risk Information System database.

IARC Monographs, Epidemiology and P53 Databases.

MedChem Chemical names database.

NLM: SIS Toxicology and Environmental Health Information provided by Specialized Information Services of National Library of Medicine.

EXTOXNET PIP's Extension Toxicology Network Pesticide Information Profiles, a cooperative effort of University of California-Davis, Oregon State University, Michigan State University, Cornell University, and the University of Idaho.

KEGG Pathway Database Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes developed by Kanehisa Laboratory of Kyoto University Bioinformatics Center.

Virtual Libraries

Virtual Library: Science: Chemistry: Chemical Databases, Links for Chemists section of the WWW Virtual Library. The University of Liverpool, Department of Chemistry in the United Kingdom is the home for Links for Chemists. SRC's databases are listed under Chemical Information, Databases.

Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), the World Wide Web Virtual Library for Engineering is a free, non-profit making service and is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) on behalf of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils.

Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory Sources of environmental topics on the web, under various headings including Pollution and Pollution databases.

Technical Reports

National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, a new publication prepared by the CDC that will provide an ongoing assessment of the U.S. population’s exposure to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring.

National Center for Food & Agriculture Policy, a non-profit organization which provides on its web site a number of reports on pesticide usage.

Wania Group of the University of Toronto at Scarborough has a number of technical reports regarding environmental fate and transport models available for downloading.

Other Useful Links

ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Environmental Health Information Service Service of the NIH-National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the DHHS-National Toxicology Program.

EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment

Food and Drug Administration

QSAR International society for scientists who investigate quantitative structure-activity relationships.

Risk Assessment Information System Risk-Based Preliminary Remediation Goal (PRG) calculations, a Toxicity data base, Risk Calculations, and Ecological Benchmarks.

SETAC Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Sparc On-Line pKa Calculator

The Chemical Information Network A list of selected chemical resources on the web developed by Laboratory of Computer Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.