Patricia A. Piermatti and Jackie Mardikian Pharmaceutical Sciences Librarian mardikia@rci.rutgers.edu December 19, 2007

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Pharmaceutical Sciences:
Toxicology and Occupational Medicine

• Databases
• Bibliographic Guide to Rutgers Resources (sub-page)
• Other Internet Resources
• Related Rutgers Resources

Databases

The following databases although not all primarily about toxicology and occupational medicine, may still provide broad international coverage of the topic within each subject area. These networked databases are available for remote use by Rutgers University students, faculty and staff. For descriptions and search connections to these and all other networked databases go to the Rutgers University Libraries Indexes and Databases page.

Rutgers users of RefWorks, the Web-based bibliography and database manager, can review the Rutgers University Libraries RefWorks FAQ. Additional guides and online tutorials are listed below.

• RefWorks: Importing Records from PubMed (UC-Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library)
• EndNote: Importing Records from PubMed (UC-Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library)
• Working with EndNote Version X (University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library)
• EndNote Basics (NIH Library)
• EndNote Import Filters (can sort by database name)
• EndNote Output Styles
• EndNote Technical Support & Services (includes Mac compatibility)
• BibMe - bibme.org

Additionally, the EndNote import filter file for International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (OVID) is available here

BIOSIS Previews (Coverage: 1990 - present) database is a comprehensive index to life science and biomedical research. Each year BIOSIS adds more than 560,000 references from more than 5,500 sources including more than 5,000 international journals, published meetings, symposia and workshops, patents, book and software reviews. It is multidisciplinary covering, among other, Applied Zoology, Behavior and Ecology, Biotechnology, Medicine, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Plant Sciences.

The BIOSIS Previews database includes the contents (from 1990 - present) of the following print titles:
Biological Abstracts, LSM/ REF/QH 301.B37/ V.1+ 1926+ ,
Biological Abstracts/RRM, LSM/ REF / QH 301.B371/ V.18+ 1980+ and
BioResearch Index LSM/ REF / QH 301.B371/ V.3-17 1967-1979.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Index (Coverage: 1984 - present). This index produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts is a good source of toxicology and environmental references, i.e. toxicology of pesticides, toxicity of heavy metals, polluted drinking water, etc.

FDC Reports (Current 120 days) The FDC Reports newsletters cover U.S. government (i.e. U.S. Food and Drug Administration) regulations, corporate news, mergers and acquisitions, product development, patent information, and statistical data (i.e. sales, market share, etc).

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) (Coverage: 1970 - present). This file provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature from 1970 to the present, and is updated monthly. Comprehensive information is included for drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.

MEDLINE (Coverage: 1966 - present) Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. More than 9.5 million records from more than 3,900 journals are indexed, plus selected monographs of congresses and symposia (1976-1981). Abstracts are included for about 67% of the records. OVID OLDMEDLINE contains pre-1966 citations.
For pre-1966 searches, see also the following print publications:

Cumulated Index Medicus. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine, 1960-2000. LSM/ REF / R 11.I45.
Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. Washington, DC: National Library of Medicine, 1880-1961. LSM/ REF / R 11.I41.
Series I: 1-16, 1880-1895
Series II: 1-21, 1896-1916
Series III: 1-10, 1918-1932
Series IV: 1-11 (through Mh-Mn only), 1936-1955
Series V: 1-3, 1959-1961

PubMed (Coverage: 1950s - present) PubMed, available via the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Entrez life sciences retrieval system, was developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the U.S. National Institutues of Health (NIH). Entrez is the text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for services including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, OMIM, and many others. PubMed consisting of the MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE databases, contains over 17 million bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,000 biomedical journals dating back to the early 1950s. OLDMEDLINE, containing the earliest citations has a fact sheet. PubMed coverage also includes the following:

• Out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE.
• Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing.
• Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM.

ScienceDirect - (Coverage: 1995 - present), the electronic science journal package from Elsevier Science provides access to more than 1000 periodicals (over 1,100,000 articles) from 1995 to present. Included in ScienceDirect's holdings are the following fields: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Science, Economics, Business and Management Science, Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, and Clinical Medicine. The full-text/full-image articles (PDF version) are available from any Rutgers workstation as well as to remote users registered as Rutgers faculty, staff or students.

SciFinder Scholar - (Coverage: 1967 - present), is the very user friendly interface for searching Chemical Abstracts (CHEM/ PER/ V.1-133 1907-2000 (print version)). Explore the world's most comprehensive collection of published scientific research in chemistry ... by author name, research topic, substance, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Note: our contract with the publisher limits SciFinder Scholar access to Rutgers University students, faculty and staff ONLY.

Toxicology Abstracts - (Coverage: 1981 - present), covers issues from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues. Surveying the literature for toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and myriad other substances, each issue publishes information concerning the in vivo effects of toxic substances. Topics of current concern such as the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies, nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials, and much more are extensively examined. Toxicity testing methodology and analytical procedures for toxic substances are also covered.

Web of Science (Coverage: 1994 - present) is an enhanced web version of the Institute for Scientific Information's citation indexes, including Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Additional toxicology databases on the Internet

• ATSDR - Toxicological Profiles
  (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html)
  The Library of Science and Medicine (LSM) has not only a circulating print set of ATSDR Toxprofiles (DOCUS/ HE20.7918: #), but also a circulating set on CD (DOCUS/COM/HE20.7919:TP- (year)).
• CDC Wonder
  (http://wonder.cdc.gov/)
• ChemIDplus Lite
  (http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/chemidlite.jsp)
• Household Products Database
  (http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/)
• ITER Database - International Toxicity Estimates for Risk Database
  (http://www.tera.org/iter)
• RTECS Database - GOV.Research_Center
  (http://grc.ntis.gov/rtecs.htm)
  RTECS is now a fee-based database.
• Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  (http://www.epa.gov/tri/)
• TOXMAP: Environmental Health e-Maps
  (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov)
• TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network) - a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas
  (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/)
• ToxSeek: Meta-Search & Clustering Engine for Environmental Health & Toxicology
  (http://toxseek.nlm.nih.gov/toxseek/)
• WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders)
  (http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/)

Other Internet Resources

• Environmental Health Science Education (National Institute of Environmental Health Science)
  (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/science-education/)
• National Library of Medicine - SIS - Specialized Information Services
  (http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/index.html)
• New Jersey Department of Heatlh and Senior Services - Occupational Health Service
  (http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/odisweb/)
• OSHA en Espanol -U.S. Department of Labor - Occupational Safety & Health Administration
  (http://www.osha.gov/as/opa/spanish/index.html)
• Statistical Resources on the Web - Health - University of Michigan Documents Center
  (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html)
• Toxic Substances Hydrology Program (USGS) - Emerging Contaminants in the Environment
  (http://toxics.usgs.gov/regional/emc.html)
• ToxTown
  (http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/)
  An interactive guide to commonly encountered toxic substances.

Related Rutgers Resources

• Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
• CRESP III (Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation III)
• Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI)
• New Jersey Environmental Digital Library (NJEDL)
• Rutgers Environmental Health & Safety