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The US EPA's Online Library
System on the web!

EPA's Online Library System (OLS) is your
web-accessible gateway to the collections of the
28 libraries of the EPA Library Network. Use
OLS to search for EPA publications, books,
serials, NTIS reports and special collections.
OLS contains over 360,000 records.

  *3<   Locate EPA publications and other
      environmental works

  <3<   Search by title, keyword, subject,
      EPA report number, author, publi-
      cation date, and more

  3(   Do a basic or advanced search

  ^   Produce customized bibliographies
http://www.epa.gov/natlibra/ols.htm

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EPA ONLIJ’IE LIBRARY SYSTEPII (OLS)
FINDTHE ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATIONYOU NEED.
OLS Databases
National Catalog:
Citations and summaries on environmentally
related topics encompassing biology, chemistry,
ecology, and other basic sciences; and EPA
reports distributed through the National Techni-
cal Information Service.
National Service Center for
Environmental Publications (NSCEP):
EPA reports, brochures, posters and other publica-
tions that are available for free from EPA ’s
document distribution center in Cincinnati, OH.
Air Pollution Technical Information
Center (APTIC)
Abstracts of air pollution documents.
Environmental Financing Information
Network (EFIN):
Abstracts of case studies and
contacts on environmental finance
topics. Includes grant and loan
information.
National Enforcement
Training Institute
(NETI):
Records for materials used in
training personnel in the
enforcement of environmen-
tal regulations.
Subsurface Remediation Information:
Citations tbr documents on the topic of
subsurface remediation.
Regional Collections:
Selected items owned by the
regional libraries.
SearchingTips & Tricks
Use the wildcard character “*“ to
truncate words or report numbers.
Example: epa3lOr95*
Search for EPA report numbers with or
without punctuation, and with either upper or
lowercase letters.
Example: epa310R95002; epa/310-r-95-002
Use the advanced search screen to
Liriiit your search to a particular publica-
tion date. Search a range of publication
dates by using a colon.
Example: 1995:1999
Choose a specific library collection to
narrow your search to the holdings of one
EPA library.
Generate bibliographies by choosing
the “display records as bibliography” link
at the top of the results screen.

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