Environmental Databases

Staples CA, Wemer AF, Hoogheem TJ. 1985. Assessment of priority pollutant concentrations in the United States using STORET database. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 4 131-142. 

Rapant, S. and KrCmova, K. (2007) Health risk assessment maps for arsenic groundwater content application of national geochemical databases. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 29(2), 131-41. 

Source HSDB. 1998. Hazardous Substances Database. Environmental Protection Agency, available through National Library of Medicine, MEDLARS, Washington, DC. 

NATICH. 1995. National Air Toxics Information Clearinghouse Database. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. 

Database, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, indexes the literature on technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy prodnetion. 

Chemical Safety Information Databases Environmental Information Databases Infrared Data Correlations with Chemical Structure NMR Data Correlation with Chemical Structure NMR Refinement Online Databases in Chemistry Reaction Databases. 

This database provides scientific and technical information on the environment. The information is compiled from a set of Royal Society of Chemistry databases. Environmental Chemistry, Health Safety contains information on chemicals deemed to cause actual or potential problems to humans or the environment. The subject coverage is broad and includes such varied topics as animal and microbiological hazards, biological effects of chemicals and radiation, corporate environmental issues, legislation and standards, transportation and storage of chemicals, waste management. Environmental Chemistry, Health Safety can be used to document risk assessment, to assess potential environmental, health, and safety problems, and to study a company s environmental and safety experiences. 

Chemical Abstracts Service Information System Chemical Engineering Databases Environmental Information Databases Factual Information Databases Online Databases in Chemistry. 

Environmental information is available extensively on the free Internet. Two main reasons aeeount for this. First, the freedom of environmental information law and, secondly, the fact that many environmental databases which used to be available only commercially are now accessible on the free Internet. This section focuses on environmental information which is available free of charge on the Internet. Three main paths are distinguished for searching environmental information effectively. In general, all three routes should be taken into consideration for achieving a sound search result for environmental information on chemical stibstances... 

Metadatabases are databases which describe other databases in a comprehensive and stnretured way [51], A prominent example is the DAIN Metadatabase of Internet Resources for Environmental Chemicals kctp //wwMmz.uni-ka el.de/dain) which in 2002 comprised more than 700 entries. This metadatabase is documented in Chapter V, Section 10 of the Handbook, on Databa.scs on Enviromnental Information", It supports the user in finding the right database(s) for their purposes. 

The search results from Google also give links to environmental databases. 

Environmental databases focusing on chemical substances arc introduced and discussed in this section. 

K. Voigt, Databases on environmental information, in Handbook of Chemoin-formatics, J. Gasteiger (Ed.), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2003, Chapter V, Section 10. 

A comprehensive search (295) of the STORET water quaUty database, maintained by the U.S. EPA Office of Water, is used to evaluate the potential water quaUty implications of various herbicides. This database contains information on contamination of surface water (SW) and groundwater (GW) suppUes. The data are provided to give a general impression of the occurrence of a given herbicide in SW and GW (269). The U.S. EPA scheme for categorizing a chemical s carcinogenic potential is used for herbicides for which healthy advisory information (HA) is available. The U.S. EPA is continually issuing HAs for various environmental contaminants HAs available in Reference 269 were used in preparation of this article. 

TDS UMERICA. This is another source for numeric databases (58). This company provides different on-line databases and software for chemistry, engineering, and environmental data. A summary of its databases is contained ia Table 7. 

Environmental Resources Technology Environmental Teratology Information Center Database Eacihties Index System... 

Environmental Chemicals Data and Information Network (ECDIN) Environmental Fate (ENVIROFATE) Environmental Eate Databases... 

BNA California Environment Daily BNA Chemical Regulation Daily BNA Chemical Regulation Reporter BNA Daily Environment Report BNA Environmental Law Database BNA Environmental Law Update BNA International Environment Daily CELDS Environmental Regulations... 

Daily Report for Executives Environment Reporter Environmental Compliance Update Environmental Health News (EHN) Environmental Law Reporter Guide to Eederal Environmental Laws Statens Naturvardsverk Toxic Law Reporter WESTI AW Environmental Administrative Law Database WESTI AW Environmental Law Library WESTLAW Topical Hivblivhts ... 

ISI is available in hard copy and electronically at EPA s headquarters and regional Hbraries, and through the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). The electronic form may be installed on IBM PC-compatible computers or placed on local area networks, and mn under Microsoft WINDOWS or WordPerfect s Library program. The Macintosh version is no longer available. The 1993 update will include the ISI hardcopy, PC disks, and the PC system user manual. EPA also pubHshes ACCESS EPA, which provides sources of information, databases, and pubHcations within the EPA. Chapter 5 of that pubhcation includes important environmental databases in air and soHd waste, pesticides and toxic substances, water, and cross-program (110). EPA also provides databases accessible through EPA Hbraries, which describe the private EPA and commercial databases available to Hbrary users (111). 

EPA, Databases Accessible Through EPA Eibraries, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. (iu press) (1994). 

There is also a growing number of specialized databases available on specific topics such as CEC Replacement, effluents and pesticides, environmental chemical data, etc. These are usually on CD-ROM or floppy disk (3). 

G. M. Shaul, U.S. EPH Risk Reduction Engineering Eaboratoy (RRELJ Treatability Database, rev. 5.0, REEL, Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 3, 1994. 

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