ATSDR's Hazardous Substance Release and Health Effects Database (Free)
HazDat, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database, is the scientific and administrative database developed to provide access to information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites or from emergency events and on the effects of hazardous substances on the health of human populations.

CHEMINFO
Detailed profiles of more than 1,300 important workplace chemicals, including health, fire and reactivity hazards and safe work practices.

ChemIDplus (Free)
ChemIDplus is the National Library of Medicine's dictionary of more than 360,000 chemicals that can be used to investigate chemicals that affect biological functions in humans and animals. Many records now provide boiling point, melting point, solubility, molecular weight, and other data. Chemicals can be searched by their ranges of effects, by toxicity, and by the organs/body systems they may act on (such as nervous system, skin, heart, kidneys and liver).

Code of Federal Regulations (Free)
(1996 - present, varies by title)
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (Free)
Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (CICADs) are similar to Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) documents in providing internationally accepted reviews on the effects on human health and the environment of chemicals or combinations of chemicals. They aim to characterize the hazard and dose-response of exposure to chemicals and to provide examples of exposure estimation and risk characterisations for application at the national or local level.

CRCnetBASE
(1986 - present)
CRCnetBASE provides full text access to over 1,000 engineering, science, medical, and information technology reference books from CRC press. New books are added monthly. Below are just some of the collections included. Entire list.

ATSDR'S Toxicological Profiles
(Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - U.S. Public Health Service) provides the toxicological effects of hazardous substances, chemicals, and compounds. Each profile includes an examination, summary, and interpretation it of available toxicological and epidemiological data evaluations on the hazardous substance.

CHEMnetBASE includes major chemical reference works.

ENVIROnetBASE provides more than 140 Lewis Publications in a variety of environmental topics.

STATSnetBASE presents methods in all areas, including Bayes, environmental, and medical statistics.

Envirofacts (Free)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Envirofacts Warehouse to provide the public with direct access to the wealth of information contained in its databases.

Environment Complete
Environment Complete covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains citations for articles from 1,200 domestic and international journals, as well as 100 monographs. The database provides full text for many of the most used journals in the discipline, and for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.

Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) Monographs (Free)
EHC publications are monographs designed for scientists and administrators responsible for the establishment of safety standards and regulations.

Environmental Issues and Policies
Provides researchers with abstract/index information to over 1000 titles covering Environmental policy and studies. There is ongoing coverage for over 500 of those titles.

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM)
Provides access to information covering all areas of air, land, water, and noise pollution as well as bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management and water resources. Includes access to Ecology Abstracts, EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements, and Environmental Engineering Abstracts.

EPA National Catalog
Contains the holdings (lists of books, documents and magazine titles) for most of the 28 EPA regional libraries and laboratories. There are also holdings for the EPA documents in NTIS, the National Technical Information Service (whether or not they are held by any libraries).

Ergonomics Abstracts - To begin searching, click on the word "SEARCH" in the pink box on the left side of the screen. Ergonomic Abstracts includes information for not only mainstream ergonomics, but also related material from psychology, physiology, biomechanics, job design, human-computer interaction, safety science, human engineering, medicine, occupational health, sport and transport.

Federal Register (Free)
(1995 - present)
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.

GreenFILE (Free)
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

HSELINE
More than 175,000 citations on safety and industrial hazards from diverse subject areas such as: Engineering, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Mining, Hazardous Substances, Occupational Hygiene, Railway, Offshore Safety, Nuclear Technology, Industrial Air Pollution, Welding, Construction and Robotics.

INCHEM
Thousands of searchable full-text documents on chemical risks and sound management of chemicals from international bodies, helping countries fulfil their commitments under the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Agenda 21, Chapter 19.

Knovel
Provides leading science and engineering books, conferences, and databases embedded with productivity tools in one online service. The Knovel product provides deep searchability, valuable subject collections through aggregation, and continuing expanding content.
Entire list of subjects. Subject collections include:

Environment & Environmental Engineering
Safety, Health & Hygiene

Industrial Safety
Toxic Substances

Titles under Toxic Substances
Patty's Toxicology
Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
CCOHS MSDSs give information on chemical products and companies, first aid, toxicity, chemical properties, exposures and protection, as well as instructions on handling and storage, and additional information such as regulations and transportation. More than 160,000 current Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) available directly from suppliers and manufacturers.

National Toxicology Program (Free)
The NTP is an interagency program whose mission is to evaluate agents of public health concern by developing and applying tools of modern toxicology and molecular biology. The program maintains an objective, science-based approach in dealing with critical issues in toxicology and is committed to using the best science available to prioritize, design, conduct, and interpret its studies. To that end, the NTP is continually evolving to remain at the cutting edge of scientific research and to develop and apply new technologies.

NIOSH (Free)
Provides access to NIOSH publications, services, news and research.

NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods (Free)
A collection of methods for sampling and analysis of contaminants in workplace air, and in the blood and urine of workers who are occupationally exposed.

NIOSHTIC-2 (Free)
NIOSHTIC-2 contains more than 16,000 citations identifying occupational safety and health documents/publications that were published between the years of 1971 and 1998.  Weekly updates, beginning in the year 2000, will reflect new NIOSH publications, as well as back-fill the coverage gap from 1998 to 2000.

OSHA (Free)
The OSHA Search Page provides access to over 30 databases including the OSH Act of 1970, Ergonomics, Fatal Facts, OSHA Regulations, and many more.

OSHLINE(TM) with NIOSHTIC®
This authoritative, up-to-date CCOHS bibliographic database, packaged together with NIOSHTIC®, covers more than 100 years of international OSH-related literature.

Oxford Reference Online: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences provides current coverage of topics including climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology, and volcanology.There are entries on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy, wind strength scales, material, temporal, and chronostratigraphic units, geologic, lunar, and Martian time scales.

Oxford Reference Online: A Dictionary of Ecology contains over 6,250 entries on all aspects of ecology and related environmental scientific disciplines such as biogeography, genetics, soil science, geomorphology, atmospheric science, and oceanography. Coverage is wide-ranging and includes plant and animal physiology, animal behaviour, pollution, conservation, habitat management, evolution, environmental pollution, climatology and meteorology.

Oxford Reference Online: Encyclopedia of Global Change Encompassing tsunamis, elephant conservation, ocean pollution, mining regulation, and permafrost melt, the 300 authoritative articles in this unique and wide-ranging encyclopedia investigate all types of phenomena that change life on Earth. The entries cover a range of general research categories: altered ecosystems, climate change, food and water supply, population, politics and global change, institutions and policies, biographies, and case studies.

Oxford Reference Online: The Oxford Companion to the Earth offering 1,000 entries of unrivalled coverage of the Earth Sciences, from volcanoes to flood plains, diamonds to meteors, deserts to deep seas. All aspects of geology, including climatology, mineralogy, and oceanography, are covered. In addition, there are many eclectic entries, for example on dinosaur hunters, and fossils and folklore, as well as biographies of the key figures involved.

RTECS®
Providing students with critical toxicological information with citations from more than 2,500 international journals, textbooks, technical reports, scientific proceedings and compendia.

Socrates
A social research database containing detailed profiles on social and environmental records on 3,000 US corporations.

Toxicological Profiles
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) produces "toxicological profiles" for hazardous substances found at National Priorities List (NPL) sites. These hazardous substances are ranked based on frequency of occurrence at NPL sites, toxicity, and potential for human exposure. Toxicological profiles are developed from a priority list of 275 substances. ATSDR also prepares toxicological profiles for the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) on substances related to federal sites.

Toxline
(1992 - present)
Provides toxicology data and references to published material and research in the field of toxicology.

TOXNET (Free)
This National Library of Medicine resource is a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.  Databases include HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank), IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System), ITER (International Toxicity Estimates for Risk), GENE-TOX (Genetic Toxicology/Mutagenicity Data Bank), CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System), TOXLINE (Toxicology Bibliographic Information), DART/ETIC (Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology), TRI (Toxics Release Inventory), and ChemIDplus.  Search as a group or individually.