United States April
Environmental Protection 1991
Agency
Toxic Substances Public Data
&ER\ Library
and
Information
Services
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EPA
"Nothing could Be
mare important or
rewarding than
protecting this earth
and the magnificent
life upon it."
William K. Reilly
Administrator
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YOU
Are Invited to Visit
Office of Toxic Substances
Chemical Library
(TS-793)
Northeast Mail, B002
401 M Street, SW
Washington, DC 20460
Monday-Friday
8:00-4:30
202-382-3944
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OTS (Office of Toxic
Substances) Chemical Library
provides technical support for OTS
programs under TSCA (Toxic
Substances Control Act).
The library staff gives priority to
meeting the needs of OTS staff.
However, all EPA employees have
access to library collections to locate
specific chemical information.
The Library also serves the
public by providing access to TSCA
Rulemaking Records, and Emergency
Planning and Community Right-to-
Know Act/Toxic Release Inventory
data.
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LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* EPCRA (Emergency
Planning and Community
Right-to-Know Act)
* Risk Assessment,
Management, and
Communication
* Toxic Substances
Regulations and Legislation
(U.S. and International)
* Toxicology
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LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
General and Reference Collections
The Library maintains a
collection of 5,000 books, 77 current
journals, 5,000 technical reports,
including those supported by the
Office of Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, a microfiche collection of
140,000 scientific and technical journal
articles, 15,000 technical reports on
microfiche, three national newspapers,
and library newsletters.
Special Collections
Industry submissions, as
required by TSCA, and indexed in
TSCATS (Toxic Substances Control
Act Test Submissions), include health
and environmental effect data, toxicity
studies, and other information.
Other special collections are
available in areas of:
Biotechnology
Environmental Issues
Risk Assessment
Title IH/EPCRA
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SPECIAL SERVICES
CD-ROM Databases
CHEM-BANK includes RTECS
(Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical
Substances), OHMTADS (Oil and
Hazardous Materials Technical
Assistance Data System), and CHRIS
(Chemical Hazard Response
Information System).
MEDJJNE features references to
articles from more than 3,200 journals,
selected for their importance to health
professionals. 1966-present, updated
monthly.
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SPECIAL SERVICES
CD-ROM Databases
TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY
SYSTEMS contains information about
the release of over 300 toxic chemicals.
TOXLINE covers the
pharmacological, biochemical,
physiological, environmental, and
lexicological effects of chemicals and
drugs, and consists of 16 subfiles,
including TSCATS (Toxic Substances
Control Act Test Submissions). 1981-
present.
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SPECIAL SERVICES
PC-Based Databases
CORR (Chemicals On Reporting
Rules) contains a list of chemical
substances, categories, and mixtures that
are, or have been, the subject of
proposed or final OTS regulations. 1990.
EXICHEM (Existing CHEMicals),
provides information about planned and
ongoing activities on existing chemicals
among countries belonging to the
Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development.
IRPTC (International Register of
Potentially Toxic Chemicals) contains
toxic chemical data profiles and a
Register Index that offers a "profile of
the profiles"-a display of the substances
covered, their current status, and the
areas where information exists or is
absent. Pharmaceutical and radioactive
substances are excluded.
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SPECIAL SERVICES
PC-Based Databases
REG-A-DEX indicates
governmental regulations affecting
5,000 common chemicals, including, for
example, SARA 313, RCRA (Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act), and
the Department of Transportation's
Hazardous Materials Regulations.
ROADMAPS contains a number
of reference sources, federal regulatory
standards or recommendations, and
federal regulatory levels for SARA 313
chemicals.
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SPECIAL SERVICES
Current Awareness Programs
The Library offers a number of
newsletters with a view to giving an
update on the latest development in
specific disciplines. Tox Talk,
Biotechnology News, and
Biotechnology Pathfinder are three
regularly issued newsletters listing
selected current bibliographic citations of
interest.
TACOS (TAble of COntents
Service) provides OTS staff with
customized photocopying of the contents
pages of journals.
In addition, a current awareness
packet on EPCRA is distributed on an
irregular basis.
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SPECIAL SERVICES
Intel-library Loan
The Library provides an
mterlibrary loan service, participating
in a cooperative lending and borrowing
arrangement among government,
academic, special, and public libraries.
Online Databases
The Library has access to
hundreds of databases from systems
such as NLM (National Library of
Medicine), CAS (Chemical Abstracts
Service), DIALOG Information
Retrieval Service, Lexis/Nexis, CIS
(Chemical Information System), as
well as EPA-developed databases such
as IRIS (Integrated Risk Information
System), OLS (Online Library
System), TSCA Inventory Online,
TSCATS, and Toxic Release Inventory
(TRI) database.
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REFERENCE SERVICE
At the center of the Library is the
reference service.
By tapping into the vast
information resources accessible to the
Library—from all the existing collections
to the special services and products-the
library staff implements a wide variety
of reference activities such as responding
to specific information inquiries and
communicating current awareness.
Library staff also provide
assistance for the Toxic Release
Inventory User Support (TRI-US),
responding to inquiries for information
from the TRI database.
In addition, the staff performs
other duties such as conducting library
tours and demonstrating equipment
usage.
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YOUR VALUABLE INPUT
Comments and suggestions
concerning library products and
services as well as any possible new
areas for information needs or support
are always welcomed.
you for visiting
the CHS Chemical Library!
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1970-1990
MAKINGADIFFERENCE
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