Toxicology and Health Information for Graduate Students
Toxicology and Health Information 
There are a number of sources available on the Library Web page which can be searched for Toxicology topics.
All University databases are accessible from home for current students but you must Login remotely to access them. Your login is your UML email address and password. For sites marked Free on this page, no remote login is necessary.
The University has a site-wide subscription to RefWorks, a web-based bibliographic management tool. Sign up for your own account at Refworks This service is available both on and off campus. If off-campus, use the code RWUMASSL, and you will be able to log in to your account. Refworks stores all your citations and can create a bibliography for you in just a few minutes. This essential tool will save you a tremendous amount of time and effort.
Your most important resources will be:
Biological Sciences from Cambridge Scientific. Search the entire database or select any subfile. All areas covered, including environmental information and toxicology. This database offers citations and abstracts only. Use the LinkSource link to connect to a journal article.
Toxnet: Free and comprehensive site from the federal government, offering many citations.
Knovel Provides access and searching for over 800 handbooks in all engineering and science fields. Has great section on toxicology.
You may link right to important titles:
Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials,
Basic Science of Poisons. (Casarett and Doull)
Other databases of interest:
- Compendex: Engineering database with much good material on related topics, especially practical applications.
- ScienceDirect This service offers FULL CONTENT of 1200 Elsevier Press journals, from 1995-
- American Chemical Society Journals FULL CONTENT for all titles from the ACS, with a complete backfile to volume 1, number 1 of each title.
- Academic Search Premier This service has a large number of journals and many links to full text. A large Table of Contents database, EJS Journals provides access to many scientific journals hosted by EJS.
- Annual Reviews FULL CONTENT to all of these titles, 1996- which contain excellent review articles.
- Ingenta.com Offers free alerts service, both subject and table of contents, covering 25,000 titles.
- Wiley-Interscience journals Provides access to 380 Wiley journals from 1997-
- IRIS Integrated Risk Information System from the EPA. Search for the chemical of interest. Free.
E-books:
- Merck Index: Databases of chemicals and drugs, with excellent basic information.
- Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Venerable resource for all chemists, now in electronic format.
- Condensed Chemical Dictionary: One electronic site to search a number of important chemical dictionaries.
- NCBI Bookshelf Full text free biomedical books, fully searchable.
- Gray's Anatomy a classic edition from Bartleby. Free.
- Human Anatomy and Physiology A Schaum's outline book from NetLibrary.
Additional database of interest:
SciFinder Scholar: Access to the complete Chemical Abstracts database from 1907-, covering over 12,000 chemical journals, plus patents, dissertations and books. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for early Sunday morning. SciFinder Scholar is already set up on any Library PC via installed software. It is also available from your home PC via a PPP account. Download instructions for the necessary software here. Be sure and download SciFinder Scholar2006. For a tutorial, click here You may search for a specific chemical and then narrow for "Adverse effects" which includes toxicity..
The computer catalog should be checked for books on your subject. UML's Dissertations Database will give you a list of all UML theses and dissertations in chemistry up to 1985. ProQuest's Dissertations Abstracts will allow you to search all dissertations since 1870. For recent dissertations, you may access the first 24 pages of any dissertation. Copies of all UML theses 1998- are free on ProQuest's site.
Some good reference books on Toxicology and Analytical methods iinclude:
Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry: Applications, Theory and Instrumentation. 16v. Wiley, 2000. REF QD 71.5 .E52 2000
Encyclopedia of Analytical Science. 10v. Elsevier, 2005. REF QD 71.5 .E539 2005.
Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety. 4v. 4th ed. International Labour Office, 1998. REF RC 963.3.E53 1998.
Handbook of Environmental Fate and Exposure Data for Organic Chemicals. 5v. Lewis, 1989. REF TD 176.4 .H69 1989
Pohanish, Richard, Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities. Wiley, 2003. REF T 55.3.H3 P647 2003.
For additional good sites on health and toxicology, both UML databases and WEB sites, use guides at: Health, Chemistry or Environmental Sciences
For general information on library services for all graduate students, check here.
Page created and maintained by Marion Muskiewicz, Science Librarian, UMASS Lowell
Last updated 2/12/07