Biomedical / Environmental / Food
PubMed
The Medline database is available free of charge from a number of sites
Toxnet
Contains four databanks that are provided free of charge by the US National Library of Medicine. Of particular interest is the Hazardous Substances Data Bank, which is an evaluated databank of approximately 4,500 potentially hazardous substances.
European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances (EINECS)
The EINECS database provides general information such as CAS number, EINECS number, Substance Name and Chemical Formula for 100 204 chemical substances. Where available each compound entry is linked to risk and safety phrases and IUCLID and OECD chemical data sheets.
ECOTOX Database
This free database from the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) provides toxicity information on aquatic and terrestrial life.
Chemsafe (NCEC)
Chemsafe is the industry mutual aid scheme for dealing with chemical substance emergencies. The NCEC plays a major role as the 24/7 advice line to the emergency services.
National Air Quality Information Archive
Maintained by the National Environmental Technology Centre (NETCEN) of AEA Technology, the site covers statistics on the majority of air pollutants in the UK.
Environment Agency's Pollution Inventory
To find out what's happening in your local area, go to this site.
Envirofacts Warehouse
From the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), this site includes information on the Superfund program, hazardous waste data, the US Toxic Release Inventory and also allows retrieval of information from EPA databases.
INCHEM
Internationally peer reviewed information, consolidated from intergovernmental organisations, on chemicals commonly used throughout the world which may also occur as contaminants in the environment and food. The compounds are documented in different health and safety contexts including: Environmental Health Criteria Monographs; Health and Safety Guides; Poison Information Monographs and Screening Information Data Set for High Production Volume Chemicals.
BIOME
This site is the hub for internet resources in the health and life sciences. BIOME is funded by JISC via the Resource Discovery Network. It offers gateways to other networks such as OMNI for health and medicine and BIORES for biomedical research, genetics, biochemistry and biotechnology.
Medi Lexicon
This site has the world's largest online database of pharmaceutical and medical abbreviations - over 56,000 and growing. The resource is free to use, allowing people to instantly look up meanings for acronyms and abbreviations from the fields of medicine, pharmacy, biotechnology, agrochemicals, healthcare and more. Also includes a searchable database of Pharmaceutical Companies and lists of hospitals, schools of pharmacy, journals, health ministries and more.
The Environment Agency (England & Wales)
This site is full of useful and relevant information on topics such as: air quality, conservation, flood control, waste and water quality. There are also links to specific information from the 8 regions.
Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening
This site covers, libraries, societies, database suppliers, listservs, publications, and other resources of interest in the field of combinatorial chemistry.
Hsedirect.com
Developed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in partnership with Butterworths Tolley, this is an online health and safety information resource. It allows instant access for those requiring health and safety legislation and guidance.
USDA Nutrients database
This database is provided by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and gives detailed nutritional data on over 7000 food items
