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This database has been prepared and reviewed by the UNEP Chemicals Programme (IRPTC). Due to the rapidly expanding field of chemistry on Internet, UNEP Chemicals cannot guarantee that all relevant sources are listed. The presence of a company's name in this list simply acknowledges their existence on the web and constitutes no endorsement by or relationship to UNEP Chemicals. Mention of programmes, products, services or organisations in this Guide does not necessarily imply approval or endorsement by UNEP Chemicals. We do not guarantee that the information found in this guide will be available to everyone, or that it will not have moved or been removed by its owner by the time that this guide is published. We make no claim that this guide is totally comprehensive on any of the subjects that we have included here. We found an abundance of information; due to time constraints not all of this information could be included. Additionally, there may well be resources that we were unable to find, or that were added after this guide was published. At this point in time, we intend to update the guide every semester and to this end we request of interested parties that they inform us of omissions and/or new resources. Major environmental organizations and networks1. International OrganizationsThe United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP. Nairobi) UNEP's mandate is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. UNEP Organization. An overview of the Environment Programme, including organizational chart, and directories of staff and offices UNEP Programme. The issues being addressed by UNEP and the strategies and activities undertaken UNEP Products and Services, Publications, catalogues, database systems and other offerings United Nations Environment Programme (Geneva) Geneva is a leading centre for international treaties and major programmes dealing with the environment and sustainable development. Most of these activities are sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) or by the United Nations Department for Policy Co-ordination and Sustainable Development (DPCSD). This Web site is maintained by UNEP's Information Unit for Conventions (IUC) to make information from Secretariats more widely available. Basel Convention on Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was adopted in 1989. The treaty seeks to regulate the import and export of hazardous wastes to ensure that they are managed in an environmentally sound manner Infoterra http://www.cedar.at/unep/infoterra/
One of the most comprehensive environmental information networks in the world, operates as a mechanism to facilitate the exchange of international scientific and technical environmental information. Operational since 1977, the network consists of 166 national focal points, a UNEP based programme activity centre and 10 regional service centre. The network links to approximately 6800 national and international institutions, NGO's industrial, commercial enterprises plus academia and experts from various sectors in the UN common system. Infoterra recently established an Internet subscription list with the objective of exchanging information on environmental topics, posing queries to the Infoterra network, requesting information from UNEP and promoting environmental awareness in general. The list is maintained by Infoterra's Regional Service Centre for Central and Eastern Europe -CEDAR (Central European Environmental Data Request Facility) based in Vienna. Send E-mail to: listproc@pan.cedar.univie.ac.at Leave the subject line blank. Type the following command on the first line of your mail: subscribe infoterra"type your name", e.g. subscribe infoterra "John Smith". The International Programme on Chemical Safety. IPCS http://www.who.ch/programmes/pcs/pcs_home.html The International Programme on Chemical Safety or IPCS established in 1980, is a joint programme of three cooperating organizations, ILO, UNEP and WHO, implementing activities related to chemical safety. IPCS is an intersectoral coordinated and scientifically based programme. WHO is the Executing Agency of the IPCS. The two main roles of IPCS are to establish the scientific basis for safe use of chemicals and to strengthen national capabilities and capacities for chemical safety. IPCS areas of activity include Evaluation of chemical risks to human health and the environment, methodologies for evaluation of hazards and risks, prevention and management of toxic exposures and chemical emergencies and the development of the human resources required in the above areas. Convention on Climate Change http://www.unep.ch/iucc/about.html It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1991. It is now co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The IUCC produces and disseminates a range of public information materials dealing with all aspects of the climate change issue. It also supports the media and information activities of the secretariats for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and for the IPCC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) http://www.unep.ch/ipcc/ipcc-0.html The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess the most up-to-date scientific, technical and socio-economic research in the field of climate change. The IPCC is organised into three working groups: Working Group I concentrates on science, Working Group II on impacts and response options, and Working Group III on economic and social dimensions. Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers This Web site offers information about Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers from many sources. It also provides links to other Web sites containing PRTR data. Instituted by the International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals of the United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, Switzerland. This activity is carried out as a contribution to the Inter-Organisation Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC) http://irptc.unep.ch:80/irptc/irptc/why.html The International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC) was established by the UN Environment Programme in 1976 in response to a recommendation of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972). The first institution to collect and process information on hazardous chemicals, UNEP Chemicals operates a global network for the exchange of information on chemicals (GINC). The information on these chemicals is presented in the form of data profiles which aim at providing the reader with reliable, up-to-date, comprehensive descriptors of information needed to assess the hazard presented by a given chemical. This data should enable the user world-wide to identify what is known about a particular substance in terms of its chemical, physical and toxicological characteristics relevant for hazard assessment. In addition UNEP Chemicals provides information on production and consumption, main uses, and waste management, as well as recommendations and legal mechanisms for the control of risks posed by chemicals. IRPTC also operates an information exchange procedure under the FAO Code of Conduct and the London Guidelines for the Exchange of Information on Chemicals in International Trade by the United Nations Environment Programme. Both include provisions whose aim is to make information about hazardous chemicals freely available. - The first provision is for Information Exchange, which suggests that for chemicals banned or severely restricted for health or environmental reasons in the country of export, the importing country should be notified of their shipment. - The second provision, known as Prior Informed Consent (PIC), was added in 1989 to stop imports of unwanted chemicals that have been banned or are severely restricted. A sample of information to be found there: Beginner's Guide to Toxic Chemicals, Data profiles on chemical substances, Capacity building programmes, Scientific and Technical documentation, Library bibliography, Publications, Press releases, Access to the UNEP Chemicals Database via Gopher Server, Using UNEP Chemicals database, Ordering information for the UNEP Chemicals database (PC version). Other Chemical-related gophers and links to valid databases Trade and Environment UNEP is publishing a series of monographs on specific issues in trade and environment. It is also co-operating with the World Trade Organization and with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to organise meetings and workshops attended by policy-makers and experts. This section of the UNEP web contains the monograph series followed by various reports and background papers generated by workshops, such as: 1) Trade and Sustainable Development (gopher) 2) Concepts and principles of international environmental law (gopher) 3) Reconciling trade and environment: Lessons from NAFTA (gopher) 4) Institutional mechanisms supporting trade in genetic materials (gopher) 5) Science, risk analysis and environmental policy decisions (gopher) 6) Selected Environmental Assessment Procedures and Procedural Harmonisation: 7) Trade and Environment: Perspectives of Developing Countries 8) Trade and Environment: Building the Revolutionary Framework United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch http://www.unep.ch/earthw.html The United Nations system is developing programmes to collect information on the environment and how it is changing in order to advise decision-makers on appropriate action. Earthwatch programmes are designed to anticipate environmental degradation and to alert countries to ways in which human activities may be interfering with the functioning of the biosphere and with human well-being. Global Resource Information Database (GRID) http://www.grid.unep.ch/gridhome.html/ UNEP/EAP is supported by the Global Resource Information Database (GRID), a global network of co-operating centres providing environmental information for decision- and policy-making. There are GRID centres in Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Japan, Kenya, Nepal, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Thailand and USA. GRID provides data distribution, data cataloguing, archiving and analytical services, using GIS, remote sensing, database and telecommunication technologies. GRID holds a total of more than 2000 environmental and natural resource data sets and provides its users with up-to-date and reliable geo-referenced environmental information, as well as a unique international database service. GRID-Arendal As part of the global GRID network of co-operating centres, GRID-Arendal seeks to be a centre of excellence for improving the accessibility and the application of scientific knowledge about the environment to policy formulation and decision-making processes. GRID-Arendal concentrates its efforts on the collection, integration, analysis and dissemination of environmental data from existing sources. GRID-Arendal's role within this global system focuses on the two polar areas, on the Nordic countries and their adjacent seas, and on strengthening generally the global environmental information system of UNEP. The United Nations Environment Programme Work Group on Sustainable Production Development Their home page covers UNEP-WG-SPD's Research Programme, and Network Programme The Network Programme, has developed an International Network of 350+ experts from some 600 organisations in 46 countries who are working in the area of SPD. The Research Programme "monitors the 'State of the Art of SPD' in a general way and focuses on activities and making an inventory of them. Many environmental subjects that are familiar and helping to make incremental improvements towards the goal of sustainability fit into RA1. e.g. eco labelling, LCA, standards, design for disassembly, Eco Redesign, etc." The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Working Group on Sustainable Product Development (UNEP-WG-SPD) was established in the beginning of 1994. It is a development of the UNEP-Industry and Environment Office - Programme Activity Centre's (UNEP/IEO-PAC) Cleaner Production Programme. The group was formed as a response to 'Agenda 21' of the UNCED Rio de Janeiro Conference (1992) which called for changes in production and consumption patterns towards a sustainable future. Against that background the Dutch Ministry for the Environment decided to support a new Working Group on products. The City of Amsterdam, and the University of Amsterdam, also provide core funding. The main activities of the UNEP-WG-SPD involve the Research Programme, and the Network Programme, which has developed an International Network of experts from 350+ organisations world-wide in the area of SPD. This number changes as the network matures. Food And Agricultural Organization of The United Nations - CH. (FAO) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is in the final stages of creating a computerised World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/waicent.html. The Centre will provide clients - including governments, research institutions, universities and private users - with fast economical access to FAO's vast library of information on agriculture, fisheries, forestry, nutrition and rural development. Agriculture Statistics Data Base contains time-series data (starting 1961) for over 210 countries and 1500 items on the production and trade of primary and derived crops and livestock products; agricultural machinery; fertiliser, pesticides and insecticides (trade only); land use and population. AQUASTAT - Rural Water Statistics. AQUASTAT is an information system on water in agriculture and rural development. It produces country profiles on water resources development, with emphasis on irrigation and drainage. Responsible Division AGL. Statistics on Pesticide Use and Fertilizer Statistics (Summary Table 1993-94). Responsible Division ESSA International Labour Organization - World Wide Web Server The International Labour Organization is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. It was founded in 1919 and is the only surviving major creation of the Treaty of Versailles which brought the League of Nations into being and it became the first specialized agency of the UN in 1946. The ILO formulates international labour standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labour rights: freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labour, equality of opportunity and treatment, and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work related issues. It provides technical assistance primarily in the fields of vocational training and vocational rehabilitation; employment policy; labour administration; labour law and industrial relations; working conditions; management development; co-operatives; social security; labour statistics and occupational safety and health. It promotes the development of independent employers' and workers' organizations and provides training and advisory services to those organizations. Within the UN system, the ILO has a unique tripartite structure with workers and employers participating as equal partners with governments in the work of its governing organs. International Labour Office (ILO - CIS) - http://turva.me.tut.fi/cis/home.html International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre Safety And Health At Work Legislation, regulations and directives Chemical Safety Data Sheets Training materials and methods; audio-visual aids. Research reports, scientific articles, codes of practice, technical data sheets... . Information services http://turva.me.tut.fi/~oshweb/ International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (CIS) is a Branch of the International Labour Office, Working Conditions and Environment Department. World Health Organization (WHO) The WHO was founded in 1948. It co-ordinates efforts to raise health levels world-wide. Through WHO, national medical, health-science and public-health authorities exchange experiences and co-ordinate efforts. In 1990, the WHO created the new division of Health Protection and Promotion to encompass the following areas: nutrition, including food aid and food safety, tobacco or health, oral health, occupational health, health of the elderly... The WHO has developed an International Program on Chemical Safety (IPCS), in cooperation with the ILO and UN Environment Program (UNEP), aimed at evaluating the risks to human health and the environment from exposure to chemicals. The program harmonises methodologies used for evaluating these risks, and provides guidance on safety programs, including prevention and response to chemical accidents in member-states in a form easily adaptable to the needs of each country. WHOSIS: http://www.who.ch/whosis/whosis.html (The WHO Statistical Information System) Division of Epidemiological Surveillance and Health Situation and Trend Assessment (HST)1996 The European Environment Agency The main goal of the EEA and its wider network, EIONET, is to deliver high quality environmental information to the European Union and the Member States, as well as to the general public. EIONET - the European Environmental Information and Observation NETwork was created to fulfil the task of the EEA of providing reliable environmental information. EIONET is a co-operative activity between EEA and the Member countries. EEA is in charge of the operation of the EIONET. Other Elements of EIONET are: The National Focal Points (NFP) responsible for national coordination of activities related to the EEA work programme. The European Topics Centres (ETC) organisations appointed by EEA for executing specific tasks, especially for providing thematic information. The National Reference Centres (NRC) institutions which may be nominated by Member States to cooperate with the EEA on specific themes and play a role in technical co-ordination within their countries. The Main Component Elements (MCE) institutions/organisations in the national networks which at a national level are regular collectors and suppliers of environmental data and/or possess relevant knowledge regarding environmental science, monitoring or modelling. The Global Information Network on Chemical Safety (GINC) The GINC, Global Information Network on Chemicals, is a world wide information network for safe use of chemicals. From this home page you can explore large amounts of useful information sources provided by both international organizations and institutions collaborating for safe control of chemicals. Participating organizations are UNEP/ International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC), International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (CIS/ILO), OECD's Work on Environmental Health and Safety with support from the National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) from Japan. ECDIN - Environmental Chemicals Data and Information Network ECDIN is a factual databank, created under the Environmental Research Programme of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the Commission of European Communities at the Ispra Establishment. The maintenance and further development of the databank remains a part of the CEC's research programme. The databank is designed as an instrument which will enable people engaged in environmental management and research to obtain reliable information on chemical products. Its aim is to bring together a wide variety of data on chemicals which are being produced by human activity in such amounts as to be actually or potentially of environmental significance. The main characteristics of ECDIN are: Multidisciplinary approach, in order to allow a comprehensive management of the environmental impact on each chemical. Factual information, in order to make it usable also to people without a scientific or technical background, or without easy access to scientific libraries. Selection and often evaluation of the stored data, performed by highly qualified experts in every data field. ECDIN deals with the whole spectrum of parameters and properties that might help the user to evaluate real or potential risk in the use of a chemical and its economical and ecological impact. The following major categories are covered: Identification, Physical-Chemical Properties, Production and Use, Legislation and Rules, Occupational Health and Safety, Toxicity, Concentrations and Fate in the Environment, Detection Methods, Hazards and Emergency. The data contained in ECDIN are extracted from original published literature or from existing databanks with the collaboration of international experts. Other sources are the list of names used by the European Customs Inventory of Chemicals and European Council directive on " the Approximation of the Laws, Regulations and Administrative Provisions relating to the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances (67/548/EEC)" with all subsequent amendments. OECD's Work on Environmental Health and Safety Work on Environmental Health and Safety is part of OECD's Environment Programme. It includes projects in the following areas: Chemicals Programme; Chemical Accidents Programme; BioTrack On-line (Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology); and Pesticides Programme. Such activities include harmonising chemical testing and hazard assessment procedures; harmonization of classification and labelling; developing principles for Good Laboratory Practice; co-operating in the investigation of existing chemicals (high production volume chemicals); as well as sharing and exploring possible co-operative activities on risk reduction from chemicals. While this work is focused primarily on the production, processing and use of industrial chemicals, these activities are closely co-ordinated with other work in OECD, particularly with regard to work on pesticides, chemical accidents, and biotechnology. PAHO The Pan American Health Organization Regional Office For The Americas Of The World Health Organization. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with more than 90 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system. PAHO disseminates scientific and technical information through its publications program and a vast network of academic libraries, documentation centres, and local health care libraries. The Organization provides technical collaboration in a variety of specialized public health fields, and organizes emergency preparedness and disaster relief co-ordination. It supports efforts to control malaria, Chagas' disease, urban rabies, leprosy, and other diseases which affect the people of the Americas. A sample of documents that can be found at this site: The Pan American Sanitary Code, The Constitution of PAHO, Strategic and Programmatic Orientations for PAHO, 1995-1998 The Resolutions of the XXIV Pan American Sanitary Conference, 1994 Annual Report of the Director, 1994 (Excerpts), WHO/Spanish version of the "World Health Report, 1995: Executive Summary" ENRICH The overall objective of ENRICH (the European Network for Research in Global Change) is to pursue a major coherent European contribution to international actions on global change research. While considering the needs of EC programmes and activities, and taking into account the existing activities of the EC, and the EU and EFTA Member States, ENRICH aims to support the knowledge base for the development of EU policy objectives. It intends to do so by acting as a clearinghouse for the exchange of information and by promoting co-operation in research and capacity building. In addition to promoting collaboration in Western Europe (EU and EFTA), ENRICH also aims to encourage the endogenous research capabilities in developing countries mainly, but not exclusively in Africa and the Mediterranean Basin and to promote support for relevant research initiatives in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (NIS). The main objectives of ENRICH are: i) to promote a pan-European contribution to the international global change research programmes; ii) to foster collaboration between and promote support for global change research in Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe and NIS, Africa and other developing countries; iii) to promote the establishment of Communication links/networks; iv) to improve the access by the scientific community to EU mechanisms for support to global change research. 2. Major Clearinghouses for Environmental InformationCIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network Contains environmental policies, conference information, full text of world treaties, WAIS searchable environmental sources and unpublished scholarly papers. A good source for general issues; many of the documents are available from other Internet sources, e.g. EPA, UNCED. Audience: Primarily earth scientists, but contains resources of interest to environmentalists, researchers, educators policy and decision makers CIESIN was established in 1989 as a non-profit, non-governmental organization to provide information that would help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand their changing world. CIESIN specializes in global and regional network development, science data management, decision support, and training, education and technical consultation services. CIESIN is the World Data Center A (WDC-A) for Human Interactions in the Environment. URL:gopher://gopher.ciesin.org URL:gopher://gopher.isnet.is/11/hytelnet/sites2/oth000.oth065 Central European Environmental Data Request Facility (CEDAR) http://www.cedar.univie.ac.at/ Computer Network for Exchanging Environmental Information In 1991, ISEP was selected by the Austrian Ministry for the Environment to administer CEDAR, the Central European Environmental Data Request Facility. CEDAR provides computing and Internet work facilities to support international data exchange with the Central and Eastern European environmental community. The in-house telecommunications infrastructure supports full TCP/IP applications: access to and communication with remote networks and information providers (Telnet, FTP, Gopher, World Wide Web) global database search and retrieval subscription lists, bulletin boards, and on-line querying of CEDAR in-house databases . In 1992, CEDAR began to work with the United Nations Environmental Programme's INFOTERRA Network, UNEP's global information exchange programme. Designated as the INFOTERRA Internet node and Regional Service Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, CEDAR is working with the Austrian National Focal Point (NFP) at the Austrian Federal Environmental Agency and other regional and global NFPs to support environmental information dissemination. US EPA Environmental Protection Agency The EPA maintains searchable databases covering a wide range of environmental issues in its "Online Library System". In addition to a main, national catalogue of citations, there are searchable databases on hazardous wastes, clean lakes, and environmental financing. The publication, Access EPA, is also available. Audience: Researchers, consumers, environmentalists. Rating: Very comprehensive coverage, large dataset. URL:telnet://epaibm.rtpnc.epa.gov login: public menu: 1 In addition, the EPA maintains a gopher site covering topics such as agriculture, air, water, land, and related environmental topics URL:gopher://gopher.epa.gov Ongoing studies and reports are available through the Future Studies gopher and wais server. URL:gopher://futures.wic.epa.gov or, URL:telnet://Server.wais.com/210/epafutures.src The EPA has also created a listserv to issue EPA press releases. Aimed at the news media and others interested in receiving an electronic copy of press releases. This is a list for distributing EPA reports only and no inquiries should be sent to the list. Subscribe to: listserver@unixmail.rtpnc.epa.gov. (Note "listserver", not the standard "listserv") In the body: SUBSCRIBE EPA-PRESS <your name> Related U.S. Government WWW servers The Space Environment Centre Part of the Environmental Research Laboratories (ERL), a part of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). The Environmental Research Laboratories (ERL) is made up of 11 research laboratories. Users of the ERL research results include the atmospheric, marine, and space physics communities. The Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) is a major research arm of NOAA. It focuses on natural phenomena in the ocean, atmosphere, and space environments having societal significance. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) index page includes links to the various line and program offices within NOAA. ANU Bioinformatics Hypermedia Service ANU's Bioinformatics Facility provides hypermedia information on the Internet under a number of themes: Biodiversity, Bioinformation, including standards, data exchange protocols, introductory summaries (FAQs) Biomathematics, including statistics; ANU Centre for Visual Sciences Complex systems covers all aspects of artificial life, chaos, fractals, non-linear dynamics, neural networks, self-organizing systems, and more. It includes the hypermedia journal Complexity International, Educational resources, including the Guide to Australia, an Introduction to hypermedia and demonstrations, General information, including electronic books, catalogs and administrative information. Landscape ecology includes ecology, biogeography, GIS, fire palynology and palaeoenvironments etc; Medical information Molecular biology concerns sequence analysis, genetics, and microbiology, including on-line access to all international databases. Neuroscience Viruses (NOT computer viruses!) Weather & global monitoring. Other information: RAPDistance package (Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA) for determining similarities between DNA samples using the presence or absence of shared segments. Direct links to relevant electronic news and newsgroups; Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) about various topics; WWW sites: Australia, New Zealand, world-wide by subject, world-wide by location. Thematic links to gopher sites and network information; network kit contains introductory information and essential software for accessing and using their services. ERIN Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) gopher://kaos.erin.gov.au Network linking the Australian Nature Conservation Agency, the Australian Heritage Commission, the Commonwealth Environment Protection Agency, and the Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories. Main focus is on endangered species, vegetation, and area studies. Resources include data sets, images (GIF), international agreements, legislation and conference information. Emphasis on the Australian environment; some world coverage. The EnviroLink Network gopher://envirolink.org/ The EnviroLink Network is the largest on-line environmental information service on the planet, reaching well over 550,000 people in 98 countries (this number grows daily). All services provided by the EnviroLink Network are FREE to the user and are available for anyone that wishes to use them. Here is a very short listing of some of the projects that the EnviroLink Network is sponsoring: * The Virtual Environmental Library: a complete clearinghouse of environmental information for researchers, policy makers, students, activists and anyone else interested in environmental issues. * The EnviroProducts Directory: the only environmentally and socially responsible business directory on the Internet - support the companies in there by purchasing their products. It is the only way we are going to reshape our economy into one that focuses on the planet's well-being. * The EnviroEducation Network: a clearinghouse of all environmental education, materials for educators and students. * The EnviroForum: an easy way for users to express opinions about environmental issues, and then discuss them in a public forum on the World Wide Web. * The Internet Environmental Resource Directory: the most complete listing, of all environmental resources available on the Internet (includes links to, those resources). * NativeWeb: a complete on-line indigenous resource centre produced by native activists throughout the world. * Environmental Conflict Resolution Project: an on-line initiative to solve environmental problems by bringing conflicting interests together using computer communications (video conferences, real-time chat, etc.) Biodiversity and Ecosystems Network (BENE) http://straylight.tamu.edu/bene/bene.html The Biodiversity and Ecosystems NEtwork, BENE, is designed to foster enhanced communications and collaborations among those interested in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem protection, restoration, and management. EcoNet Large, fee-based network comprised of many environmental discussions, reports, articles, and documents. Resources include U. S. EPA press releases and weekly transcripts of "Living on Earth" (NPR's Environment news program.) Large, world-wide coverage and membership. Some materials are archived and available via ftp. Send a blank message to: econet-info@igc.apc.org for information. URL:file://igc.apc.org/pub/econet_brochure URL:gopher://igc.apc.org There are many discussion groups relating to environmental issues. Subject Specific Resources3. Chemical and Environmental Health Safety and ToxicologyAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/hazdat.html This database is developed to provide access to information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites or from emergency events and on the effects of hazardous substances on the health of human populations. The database can be queried directly from a browser with forms support. The following information is included in HazDat: site characteristics, activities and site events, contaminants found, contaminant media and maximum concentration levels, impact on population, community health concerns, ATSDR public health threat categorization, ATSDR recommendations, environmental fate of hazardous substances, exposure routes, and physical hazards at the site/event. In addition, HazDat contains: substance-specific information such as the ATSDR Priority List of Hazardous Substances, health effects by route and duration of exposure, metabolites, interactions of substances, susceptible populations, and biomarkers of exposure and effects. The National Board of Occupational Safety and Health http://www.arbsky.se/arbskeng.html The National Board of Occupational Safety and Health is the central administrative authority for questions relating to the working environment and working hours and the authority to which the Labour Inspectorate is accountable. Basic rules on the working environment are contained in the Work Environment Act, further to which the Board issues Ordinances defining more detailed stipulations and obligations. Approximately 120 persons are employed at the Supervision Departments, which are among other things responsible for the drafting of statutory instruments, as well as furnishing advice and information on compliance with work environment legislation. Much work is also being devoted to European standardisation work and EU harmonisation. The National Institute for Working Life is Sweden's R&D centre for occupational health and safety, working life and the labour market. Other important tasks are the dissemination and application of knowledge through education and training, publications and international collaboration. NIOSH Databases http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/database.html The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health currently offers easy access to the following four databases. Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances NIOSHTIC NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods (NMAM), NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG), Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS) INFACT http://www.boutell.com/infact/ INFACT's Long Range Goal To ensure global survival and create a world that affirms life: a world where people can adequately meet their needs for food, water, shelter and good health; a world where the opportunity exists for all people to reach their full human potential; a world where security is based on co-operation and community. INFACT's purpose is to stop life-threatening abuses of transnational corporations (TNCs) and increase their accountability to people around the world. Award winning enterprise. Objective, to the point research journalism. Portfolio - Chemical Safety http://www-portfolio.stanford.edu/no-form/100369/5 Chemical safety information from Standford University. Hazardous properties of materials: physical hazards, such as flammability and corrosivity; toxic effects such as carcinogenicity, toxicity, and target organ information; and regulatory listing requirements. Also included are STORAGE groups for compatible segregation of chemicals. Most chemicals in use at Stanford have been classified by this system at least once. Carcinogenic Potency Database Project (CPDB) http://potency.berkeley.edu/cpdb.html The Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) is a widely used resource on the results of chronic, long-term animal cancer tests. It provides a single, standardised and easily accessible database that includes sufficient information on each experiment to permit investigations into many research areas of carcinogenesis. Both qualitative and quantitative information on positive and negative experiments are given, including all bioassays from the National Cancer Institute/National Toxicology Program (NCI/NTP) and results from the general literature that meet a set of inclusion criteria. Analyses of 5000 experiments on 1230 chemicals are presented. For each experiment, information is included on the species, strain, and sex of test animal; features of experimental protocol such as route of administration, duration of dosing, dose level(s) in mg/kg body weight/day, and duration of experiment; histopathology and tumour incidence; carcinogenic potency (TD50) and its statistical significance; shape of the dose-response curve; author's opinion as to carcinogenicity; and literature citations. CCOHS, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) promotes a safe and healthy working environment by providing information and advice about occupational health and safety. CCOHS provides a comprehensive computerized information service, CCINFO, delivered through compact disc (CD-ROM) on on-line system, CCINFOline, and diskette products. CCINFO assists thousands of users in some fifty countries in meeting their information needs. There is also a version of Carolla Christie's "Safety Related Internet Resources," covering nearly 200 other health and safety resources. Chemical Safety - http://www.chemsafe.com:80/ems.html EMS Environmental Management Systems is a comprehensive software database system that has been designed to provide organizations with a tool to manage environmental, health and safety information. Hazardous Chemical Database (U. Akron) http://odin.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd/ This database provides access to information for any of over 1300 hazardous chemicals based on a keyword search. Keywords include names, formula and registry numbers (CAS, DOT, RTECS and EPA). The database currently contains 1991 entries and was last updated 8/21/96. Chemical Abstracts Service CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service), a division of the American Chemical Society, provides a broad range of scientific information products, from focused topical publications to comprehensive on-line sources. CAS also offers various specialized services and world-wide customer support. (see brief review of CAS on the guide to selected index document) Safety Information Resources on the InterNet (SIRI) Gopher. gopher://SIRI.UVM.EDU/ This site contains occupational and environmental safety and health information. It includes information about and access to: the files and archives of major safety and health related e-mail lists; the Vermont SIRI file library of text and graphics files; MSDS's available here and elsewhere on the Internet; links to other safety and health web sites. The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Europe SETAC-Europe is a professional society established to promote the use of a multi-disciplinary approach to solving problems of the impact of chemicals and technology on the environment. SETAC-Europe provides a vehicle for scientists to exchange information and to share opinions across borders and across disciplines. It does so by organising international and national meetings, workshops and symposia, by publishing a monthly scientific journal (Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry), a regular newsletter (SETAC-Europe News) and books. It has established a Young Scientist Award to recognise outstanding work presented at its annual meeting. It also recognises outstanding educational achievements through its annual Environmental Education Award. SETAC-Europe was founded in 1989, and already has over 850 members from 30 countries within and outside Europe. Tobacco BBS Tobacco BBS is a free resource centre focusing on tobacco and smoking issues. It features tobacco news, tobacco information, assistance for smokers trying to quit, alerts for tobacco control advocates, and open debate on the wide spectrum of tobacco issues. The Tobacco BBS is a first-class BBS (212-982-4645) and is available on the OneNet. EXTOXNET , Extension Toxicology Network http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/ This source contains over 130 Pesticide Information Profiles on specific pesticides and 18 Toxicology Information Briefs covering selected concepts and terms in toxicology. The EXTOXNET InfoBase provides a variety of information about pesticides. Access the Pesticide Information Profiles (PIPs) for specific information on pesticides. Toxicology Information Briefs (TIBs) contain a discussion of certain concepts in toxicology and environmental chemistry. Other topic areas include: Toxicology Issues of Concern (TICs), Factsheets, News about Toxicology Issues, Newsletters, Resources for Toxicology Information, and Technical Information. Information on these topic areas has been developed primarily by toxicologists and chemists within the Extension Service of the land-grant universities. A major goal has been to develop unbiased information in a form understandable by the non-expert, and to make that information fully searchable and selectively retrievable. Chemicals in the Environment OPPT Chemical Fact Sheets http://www.epa.gov/docs/chemfact/ The OPPT Chemical Fact Sheets are produced by the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics to provide a brief summary of information on selected chemicals. The Fact Sheets cover each chemical's identity, production and use, environmental fate, and health and environmental effects. They also include a list of laws under which the chemical is regulated, phone numbers, and the names of EPA offices and other Agencies one can call or contact for more information. Each Fact Sheet is also accompanied by a Chemical Summary, a technical support document that provides detailed technical information on the chemical named in the Fact Sheets. The OPPT Chemical Fact Sheets are produced by the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics to provide a brief summary of information on selected chemicals. The Fact Sheets cover each chemical's identity, production and use, environmental fate, and health and environmental effects. They also include a list of laws under which the chemical is regulated, phone numbers, and the names of EPA offices and other Agencies one can call or contact for more information. Each Fact Sheet is also accompanied by a Chemical Summary, a technical support document that provides detailed technical information on the chemical named in the Fact Sheets. Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) It is a non-profit citizen-based NGO that advocates adoption of ecologically sound practices in place of pesticide use. PANNA works with over 100 affiliated organizations in Canada, Mexico and the U.S., and more than 400 PAN partner groups around the world, to promote sustainable agriculture, food security and social justice, and demand that development agencies and governments redirect support from pesticides to safe alternatives. EcoNet's Toxics, Hazards & Wastes Resources http://www.econet.apc.org/toxic/ Collection of Internet resources. Health, Safety and the Environment from the Royal Society of Chemistry http://chemistry.rsc.org/rsc/safety.html Keeping up to date with health, safety and the environment. Chemical industry | Laboratories | Offices | Toxicity | Environmental impact | Safety data sheets | Chemical Safety NewsBase If you need quick and comprehensive answers to questions like: 'How should I go about writing a safety policy?' 'What is RSI and how can I prevent it?' 'How can I best promote health and safety in my workplace?' then Chemical Safety NewsBase (CSNB) is for you. CSNB is equally adept at answering highly specific questions like: 'How toxic is a particular chemical to workers?' 'What's the best way to monitor workers exposed to lead?' 'Does glutaraldehyde cause birth defects in rats?' CSNB is an on-line database which takes the worry out of health and safety. It will alert you to the latest legislation in Europe, the USA and world-wide, often when laws are still in draft form so that you can be involved in the consultation process, and ensures that you are aware of important case law in the field. audio-visual aids and technical reports. National Toxicology Program, U.S.A http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/ The National Toxicology Program (NTP), headquartered at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, NC, was established as a co-operative effort, within the Public Health Service, to co-ordinate toxicology research and testing activities within the Department of Health and Human Services; to provide information about potentially toxic chemicals to health, regulatory and research agencies, and the public, and to strengthen the science base in toxicology. The three NTP participating agencies are the NIH's NIEHS, the FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research, and the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Phoenix Polymers, Polymer Toxicity and Safety Resources http://www.applink.net:80/~skumar/safety/phoenix.html Contents - Polymer Toxicity and Safety Resources Poisons Information Database, National University of Singapore Venom and Toxin Research Group Department of Anatomy, National University of Singapore in collaboration with the Centre for Medical Informatics and Biostatistics (CMIB) and Biocomputing Research and User Support (BRUS) technology group 1. Natural Toxins and Poisons, Plant toxins , Snake toxins , Animal toxins 2. Directory of Antivenoms around the world 3. Directory of Toxinologists around the world 4. Directory of Poison Control Centres around the world English-Chinese bilingual PID Material Safety Data Sheets at Enviro-Net.com A forms-searchable database of MSDS entries in the Enviro-Net Material Safety DataSheet Index. Manual searching is supported also. MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) at Case Western Reserve University. gopher://biochemistry.bioc.cwru.edu/7sc%3a/database/utahmsds.mnu An archive of unlicensed/unrestricted publicly destributable Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) derived from the University of Utah archive. Material Safety Data Sheets at Oxford University Some MSDSs can be found at Oxford University. This is the home page of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK. It provides access to information on the department, the research conducted and the people working there. There are also links to other places of interest both in Oxford and elsewhere. MSDS at the University of Utah gopher://atlas.chem.utah.edu:70/11/MSDS An archive of unlicensed/unrestricted publicly destributable Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) in ASCII text file format. The text files are given the common or product name of the material. Toxikon: Medical Toxicology On-Line© http://toxikon.uih.uic.edu/toxikon/ The Toxikon Multimedia Project. The University of Illinois at Chicago Program in Emergency Medicine @uic.edu Featuring Virtual Toxicology Multimedia Cases. Features: Virtual Toxicology Cases, Summary of the Toxicology Fellowship, Antidotes to Common Toxins Poison Review. A Critical Review of Topics in Toxicology. Toxin of the Week. Research Interests. Toxicology Links on the Internet. TOXWORLD (Under development.) Tri-Service Toxicology Consortium http://excalibur.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil/ Tri-Service Toxicology is the functional integration of three previously separate military toxicology efforts. Under Project Reliance, the Naval Medical Research Institute Detachment (Toxicology), the Toxicology Division of the Air Force Armstrong Laboratory, and the Occupational Health Branch of the US Army Biomedical Research and Development Laboratory were collocated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Vision: The vision of Tri-Service Toxicology is to be an integral asset within the Department of Defense as the centre of excellence for toxicology research solving the challenges of today and anticipating those of the future. Mission: The mission of Tri-Service Toxicology is to provide the Department of Defense and other customers with timely solutions to current and anticipated operational problems through an integrated approach to innovative human health effects research. Goals: Provide quality toxicology information to minimize operational risk. Assist in interpreting toxicological data within the military-specific environment. Give our customers timely information to make cost effective decisions. Develop improved research methods which replace, refine and reduce the use of laboratory animals. Advance extrapolation of health effects information from laboratory animals to humans. Serve our customers better though personal, scientific and organizational improvements. Medical Management Guidelines for Acute Chemical Exposures: Patient Information (FAQs) http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/mmg.html Medical Management Guidelines for Acute Chemical Exposures (Guidelines) were developed by ATSDR to aid emergency department physicians and other emergency healthcare professionals who manage acute exposures resulting from chemical incidents. The guidelines are intended to aid healthcare professionals involved in emergency response to effectively decontaminate patients, protect themselves and others from contamination, communicate with other involved personnel, efficiently transport patients to a medical facility, and provide competent medical evaluation and treatment to exposed persons. Select patient information on several toxic chemicals found frequently at hazardous waste sites was excerpted from the Guidelines and is provided in this file, in a straightforward and user-friendly, question / answer format. ATSDR ToxFAQs MENU http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/toxfaq.html ATSDR ToxFAQs is a series of summaries about hazardous substances being developed by the ATSDR Division of Toxicology. Information for this series is excerpted from the ATSDR Toxicological Profiles and Public Health Statements. Each fact sheet serves as a quick and easy to understand guide. Answers are provided to the most frequently asked questions about exposure to hazardous substances found around hazardous waste sites and human health effects. Molecular models are included in many of the ToxFAQs in two formats: a GIF image and an XYZ (3D viewer) file. The 3D viewer file can be viewed with molecular modelling software such as RasMol. You can also configure RasMol as a viewer to run within your web browser. 4. Water, Wastewater, and Water QualityThe International Association on Water Quality http://www.iawq.org.uk/abtiawq.html IAWQ is concerned with all aspects of water quality throughout the water cycle. Not only are the causes of water quality deterioration of primary concern to the Association but also the means by which these may be prevented or alleviated, through control of pollution at source, improvements to existing treatment processes and development of new ones. Among the topics covered by the Association are: The problems of increased urbanisation and the consequences of the domestic wastewater and urban drainage water generated. Industrial processes, including energy, agriculture and transport, which generate wastes of many diffuse types including nutrients, acid air emissions and persistent toxic substances. Eutrophication of rivers, lakes, groundwaters and seas. Acidification of waters. Health problems from polluted waters. Impacts of pollution on the flora and fauna of marine and freshwaters. Treatment processes of all kinds, using advanced and low technology, for both domestic and industrial wastewaters. Residuals management and disposal. Wastewater reuse. River basin management. Instrumentation, control and automation. Management and institutional affairs. Environment Canada Web Site The Environment Canada Web Site is a comprehensive source for groundwater technologies and issues. The Groundwater Remediation Project page contains a list of themes pertaining to groundwater and contaminant hydrology. For each theme, current G.R.P. research activities are briefly described and lists of pertinent abstracts are provided. Another page in the site contains a bibliography of Internet resources. This page is a convenient resource since it not only cites the Internet resources, but also allows the browser to access the resources from the immediate Web page. General types of resources available include: supplementary on-line databases, software tools, conference announcements, and an extensive Web Site selection. International Groundwater Modeling Center, Colorado School of Mines http://igwmc.mines.colorado.edu:3851/ This is the Mecca for modellers, no doubt about it. The IGWMC site contains an extensive list of available models for a variety of hydrologic applications, including brief descriptions of the models, price lists, and directions for ordering. Upcoming groundwater modelling seminars are described as well. Ground Water Remediation Technologies Analysis Center The Groundwater Remediation Technologies Analysis Center will compile, analyze, and disseminate information on new groundwater remediation technologies. Center reports will be prepared by technical teams drawn as appropriate from National Environmental Technology Applications Center (NETAC), the University of Pittsburgh, and other supporting institutions. The Center will maintain an active outreach program, and its activities will be guided by an external Guidance Committee composed of representatives from interested public and private sector organizations. Environmental HydroSystems Environmental HydroSystems, Inc. (EHI) is a water resources and environmental consulting firm that specializes in the analysis of hydrologic systems and in the development and application of scientific software to support such analysis. The company, founded in 1994, offers a broad range of expertise to public and private customers. Their services are focused on the system-wide evaluation of information to define long-term solutions and improve the quality of customers' products and services. Their newest development is a World Wide Web (WWW) Ground Water / Porous Media Modelling and Environmental Software Server. This server is provided to promote the dissemination of public domain and proprietary porous media and environmental software and supporting information. We encourage you to check the server out and to participate in the global advancement of our collective understanding of the hydro-sciences. GREEN (Global Rivers Environmental Education Network) http://www.igc.apc.org/ green/ We find that this site has the most current index of watershed topics - "Watersheds on the Internet." Good point of embarkation for environmental research. EcoNet's Water, Seas, Oceans, and Rivers Directory http://www.igc.apc.org/ igc/www.water.html An index of Web sites dealing with the aqueous parts of the Earth. USGS Water Resources of the United States This site has a wealth of information about water, streams, and rivers, with access to the vast USGS archives. Hydrology Web http://etd.pnl.gov:2080/hydroweb.html Earth and Environmental Sciences Center. From the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Washington, this site is rich in resources and links. California Rivers Assessment http://ice.ucdavis.edu/California_Rivers_Assessment/ A fine example of place-based information, based on watersheds, taking advantage of modern computer mapmaking capabilities. Request a map showing specific areas to get a taste of what's to come in access to public geographic data. This server can also create a high-resolution version of your customary map and place it in a publicly accessible computer for your retrieval. Good links too. Water and Wastewater Treatment at UCLA's Center for Clean Technology http://cct.seas.ucla.edu/cct.ww.html Water and Wastewater Treatment Program is rooted in the treatment waters which contain small quantities of hazardous substances in a matrix of non-hazardous contaminants. These wastewaters are especially challenging to treat; small quantities of hazardous substances may preclude release to conventional wastewater treatment plants, yet the generally large volume and dilute concentrations make for poor candidates for reuse or thermal treatment (incineration). Pacific Northwest Laboratory Earth and Environmental Science Center (EESC) When you first begin to explore groundwater remediation resources on the World Wide Web, start with the EESC. The main reason for doing this is that you can link up to most other significant groundwater information resources from this site. It is very comprehensive, and contains enough information to keep the curious satisfied for hours. The EESC itself has some interesting resources, and a great deal of imagery has been integrated into the Web pages throughout the site. LISTSERVS: This is a water quality discussion list. There is not a lot of activity on this one, but some interesting discussion. Pollution and groundwater discharge. Not much discussion on this list. A groundwater modelling discussion list is being developed. Interested participants may contact Sam Standring at: xsstandring@fullerton.edu. E-mail: e-mail> Julian Keniry (julian@NWFDC.NWF.ORG) Environmental Audit '90-Energy and Water Conservation (chart)40 page discussion with charts to raise campus consciousness regarding water usage. Concise, interesting, good statistics. Bibliography: Title: Water Quality and Forestry To order: e-mail wqic@nalusda.gov FTP: There are a number of relevant documents in the /gopher/directory. This document is relevant for environmentalists, and researchers, with emphasis on teaching. file://ftp.cic.net/pub/great-lakes/gopher/GroundWaterStrategy.txt There are a number of relevant documents on groundwater quality at this site also, one of which is listed below. file://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/political-science/Community_Idea_Net/Cleaning- Up-Groundwater-Contamination Water Quality Database Citations are available from each Extension Service in the Land Grant System. In addition, more than 350 complete documents are available for recovery on-line. gopher://hermes.ecn.purdue.edu/Purdue Cooperative Extension Gopher/Environment/Water Quality WAIS: info.cern.ch : water-quality.src telnet://hermes.ecn.purdue.edu login: cerf password: purdue Gopher Universities Water Information Network (UWIN) gopher://uwin.c-wr.siu.edu This network is sponsored by the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR). Water resources publications and educational information. The citation databases are excellent for researchers and educators. This network also offers a Water Talk bbs where discussion groups include: Hydrology, International Issues, Water Quality, and Water Policy. telnet://gopher.c-wr.siu.edu, or telnet://bbsrelay.c-wr.siu.edu (You will be greeted with login instructions.) Regional Concerns LISTSERVS: The environment in Latin America Network Ecology and environmental protection in Chile Devoted to water issues in the Middle East South Florida environmental list FTP: Central European Environmental Data Request Facility (CEDAR) Contains regional information and United Nations information. Includes the International Directory of Expertise database. gopher://pan.cedar.univie.ac.at 5. Earth, Soil and AgricultureUSGS Geology Information A world of geologic information, projects, programs, and maps. This agency's was among the first of the government servers. USGS servers still look and work the best, though NASA's run a close second. The Directory of Agriculture-Related Databases, Datasets, and Information Systems http://www.agnic.nal.usda.gov/agdb/ (AgDB) is a project of the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) of the National Agricultural Library. It is an outgrowth of work performed by the National Agricultural Library's (NAL) Electronic Research Database Committee (ERDC). The ERDC was charged by the NAL's Electronic Information Initiative Steering Committee to identify and describe agriculture-related databases, datasets, and information systems. The prototype system here presented is based on that data. In creating this system, we have added other seemingly appropriate ag-related sites not appearing on the original ERDC list. Not all datasets described are available on the Internet, but for those that are, links have been established to the actual data wherever possible. The Agricultural Genome Information Servers (AGIS). Sequences from the Genome Informatics Group of the USDA, National Agricultural Library. Also provides access to AGRICOLA. This server consists of genome information for agriculturally important organisms. At present, this encompasses mostly crop and livestock animal species. However, since all genome information is potentially valuable to our users we have information related to non-commodity species as well. Also included are a number of databases that have related information, e.g. germplasm and plant gene nomenclature data. Institute of Soil Sciences http://vendigo.uni-soilsci.gwdg.de/ Department of Agriculture, University of Gottingen Nice pictures of soil profiles, lecture notes, and bulletins, in English and German. This server has links to other soil-related sites world-wide. Cybersoils http://www-aghort.massey.ac.nz/departs/soilsc/cybsoil/soildep1.html Massey University Department of Soil Science This New Zealand server is one place to start for world soils information. This Home Page is specifically oriented towards Soil Science Teaching. 6. Sustainable AgricultureThe Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC) http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/AltFarm/ AFSIC is one of ten Information Centers at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), located in Beltsville, Maryland. NAL, the foremost agricultural library in the world, is one of the three U.S. national libraries (along with the Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine). AFSIC specializes in access to information about sustainable agriculture, new uses for traditional crops, crops grown as raw materials for industrial production, and the USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program. Alternative farming systems, including those known as low-input, regenerative, biodynamic, organic, aim to protect natural resources while maintaining agricultural productivity and profitability. Methods employed to achieve these goals include reduced tillage, use of legumes in crop rotations, increased use of green manures and animal manures, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and biological controls, and farm diversification through alternative enterprises and/or new crops and varieties. Patents Related to Biological Control and Other Alternative Farming Methods http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/AltFarm/Patents Biological Control Virtual Information Center http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/biocontrol/biocontrol.html Meta database. Links to information on biological control organizations, databases, and web sites around the world. This Web site is jointly sponsored by the Center for Integrated Pest Management and the Consortium for International Crop Protection. Multiple Information Sources. The Association of Natural Bio-control Producers (ANBP), a non-profit corporation made up of producers, distributors and users of natural enemies of agricultural pests, as well as industry supporters, researchers and government representatives. Our goals are to strengthen the natural enemy production industry and to promote research and education on the use of natural enemies. Healthy Harvest http://www.mother.com/agaccess A Global Directory of Sustainable Agriculture & Horticulture. The current edition lists over 1850 organizations from all fifty states of USA and seventy two countries, with extensive cross-indexing. The directory includes activist and resource groups, foundations, schools, government agencies, intentional communities and development, trade & research organizations... . These work in fields such as aquaculture, food processing and distribution, forestry, greenhouses or orchards, marketing, organic waste recycling, pest management and the media. They offer services such as apprenticeships, consulting, seed sales or exchanges, farm support services and training in sustainable agriculture, to mention a few. Score. The Sustainable Cropping Systems Research Study http://aceis.agr.ca:80/icar/docs/93000575.html The Sustainable Cropping Systems Research Study is a co-operative research venture involving multidisciplinary teams of researchers from Agriculture Canada, Alberta Agriculture, and the University of Alberta. The study, established in 1991, is funded by the Canada-Alberta Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture (CAESA) Agreement. The underlying motivation for the Sustainable Cropping Systems study is the recognition that agricultural practices in Alberta should not only provide profitability in the short term, but also ensure that the soil and environmental resources are maintained undiminished for future generations. Biocontrol Network http://www.usit.net/BICONET.html World Wide Web's leading supplier of sustainable pest control alternatives for agriculture, horticulture, commercial and residential use. BIONET offers a variety of preventative management resources including bio-intensive pest control, organic farm and garden products, educational materials and global community feedback. Biocontrol Network will provide, at no charge to the public, an information resource for those interested in Integrated Pest Management, bio-intensive pest control and sustainable farming techniques. They publish I.P.M. related material, original ARBICO publications, technical papers, reprints of feature articles and links to external papers that discuss non-chemical pest control techniques. Biocontrol Network has a vision of making available information, to the educational community and to the public at large, in an attempt to raise consciousness regarding environmental concerns in agriculture. They see a bright future of non-chemical coexistence with nature, Bio-Balance. Mulch-Based Agriculture Group http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu:80/mba_project/default.html Sustainable Agriculture With A Sense of Humus. The Mulch-Based Agriculture (MBA) group was officially formed in 1994 under the sponsorship of Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development (CIIFAD). The goals of the MBA Group are to: 1) facilitate interdisciplinary research on primarily tropical mulch-based systems, 2) encourage exchange of related information between researchers in various institutions/agencies and between researchers and the NGO/field level, and 3) consolidate, synthesize and disseminate practical, farmer-tested information on mulch technologies. The MBA Group's main interests revolve around mulch-based systems that can improve agricultural sustainability for resource-poor farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mulch-based systems include: green manure, covercrops, and various agroforestry systems that have mulch or a litter layer of vegetative biomass which is cut and left on (or partially incorporated into) the soil. LISTSERVS: Sustainable agriculture discussion group.almanac@ces.ncsu.edu Subscribe sanet-mg (electronic conference of the Sustainable Agriculture Network) SAN is supported by a grant from the USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program. There is a lot of information available through this network and a number of access points. For information, contact Gabriel Hegyes, SAN Coordinator: ghegyes@nalusda.gov Telnet: PENPages Keyword search on sustainable agriculture retrieved over 50 documents. URL: telnet://psupen.psu.edu login: your two-letter state code AGRALIN (Agricultural Bibliographic Information System of the Netherlands) Includes Union Catalogue of Agricultural Books and Periodicals of the Wageningen Agricultural University Library and 70 other Dutch libraries with collections on agriculture and nature conservation. telnet> agralin1.bib.wau.nl login: hello opac.bas telnet://agralin1.bib.wau.nl Bibliography: Title: Evaluation of Agricultural Best Management Practices To order: e-mail wqic@nalusda.gov FTP: Very good sustainable agriculture bibliography for researchers, farmers, and educators. file://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/agriculture/ sustainable_agriculture/sanet/showcase.bibliography 7. Air: Quality, Pollution, and MonitoringNOAA's Climate Diagnostics Center The mission of CDC is to identify the nature and causes for climate variations on time scales ranging from a month to centuries. The goal of this work is to develop the ability to predict important climate variations on these time scales. Lots of resources and links related to climate change, both short- and long-term.(Climate modelling is the most computer-hungry field there is. Somebody once said that the only computer fast enough to model the atmosphere is the atmosphere itself.) Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean http://tao.atmos.washington.edu/ The Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) has existed since 1980 for the purpose of fostering research collaboration between the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Washington. The administrative units most directly connected with JISAO are NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) and the University's Department of Atmospheric Science and College of Ocean and Fisheries Science (COFS). JISAO has five core research areas: (1) climate variability, (2) global environmental chemistry, (3) estuaries, (4) recruitment of fish stock, and (5) policy, impact and response strategies with respect to climate variability. Of these five areas only (1) has enjoyed the benefit of ongoing block funding for a core program: (4) and (5) have been added only recently and (3) has been dormant for over a decade for lack of funding. Lots of good links. Combustion and Air Toxics Research http://cct.seas.ucla.edu/cct.tt.html Development of a new generation of "clean" combustion technologies designed not only to operate at peak thermal efficiencies, but also to result in emissions at the lowest possible levels of toxic by-products Topics: Overview of the Combustion and Air Toxics Program, Formation of Air Toxics in the Combustion of Hydrocarbons, Development of a Lobed Injector/Burner for Mixing Enhancement and Emissions Reduction Formation of Aerosols in Combustion. Heavy Metal Oxide Particulate Formation in Flames. Interaction of Fluid Dynamics and Chemical Kinetics. Computer Control of Combustion Systems. Plasma Torch Destruction of Radioactive Wastes. Combustion Kinetics of Halogenated Hydrocarbons. Development of Compact Hazardous Waste Incinerators Scripps Institute of Oceanography http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/l Weather and Weather Related Information University of Illinois Cloud Catalog http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/clouds/html/cloud.title.html Online Guide to Meteorology http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/guide.html The "Guide" is a collection of multimedia instructional modules that introduce and explain fundamental concepts in meteorology. EPA bulletin boards: telnet://ttnbbs.rtpnc.epa.gov Some available bulletin boards CAAA- Clean Air Act Amendments EMTIC- Emission Measurement Technical Information Center emission test methods and testing information) AIRS- Air quality and emissions BLIS- Compilation of air permits from air pollution control agencies. NATICH- Information submitted by EPA, state and local agencies about air toxics programs COMPLI- Stationary source and asbestos compliance policy CHIEF - Latest information on air emission inventories and emission factors ATP- Current course offerings on air pollution FTP sites: There are many good documents in the "e" directory at this site having to do with pollution and other environmental issues, useful to researchers. file://ftp.cic.net/pub/nircomm/gopher/e-serials/alphabetic/e/env-link/india.pollution.gz file://ftp.cic.net/pub/nircomm/gopher/e-serials/alphabetic/e/env-link/manila.air.pollution.gz file://ftp.cic.net/pub/nircomm/gopher/e-serials/alphabetic/e/env-link/unocal.pollution.gz file://ftp.cic.net/pub/nircomm/gopher/e-serials/alphabetic/e/env-link unix.hensa.ac.uk The pollution datasets at this site are of value to researchers and environmental scientists and legislators. file://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/statlib/datasets/pollution NASA's Solar Data Analysis Center http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/latest.html Pictures of the sun, many in ways you have never seen it before. Space Environment Center Real-time monitoring and forecasting of solar and geophysical events, conducts research in solar-terrestrial physics, and develops techniques for forecasting solar and geophysical disturbances. Mees Solar Observatory in Hawaii White Light, Calcium-K, and Stokes Magnetograms of the sun. Worth looking at even if you don't know what this means. World Space Weather Service http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/iuwds/iuwds.html The International Ursigram and World Days Service (IUWDS) has provided international co-ordination for solar terrestrial and space environmental services for around four decades. In 1996, the organisation changed its name to the International Space Environment Service (ISES). This change better reflects the nature of its services to the global community. ISES continues to be the international link to the many agencies which monitor the sun-earth environment and provide a diverse range of services to those interested in, or affected by, this environment. Good index to other solar sites. 8. Hazardous Chemicals/Waste/PollutantsHazardous Substance Research Centres http://eoeml-www.gtri.gatech.edu/home/hsrc/ (HSRC), a national organization that carries out an active program of basic and applied research, technology transfer, and training. Their activities are conducted regionally by five multi-university centres, which focus on different aspects of hazardous substance management. These centres bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to collaborate on integrated research projects, which involve practical problems of hazardous substance management as well as long-term, exploratory research. Research projects on: - Bioremediation Research - Detection and Remediation Research - Fate and Transport Research - Incineration/Thermal Research - Metals Research - Technology Transfer and Training Research The HSRC draws financial support from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense, with additional funding from academia, industry, and other state and federal government agencies. The Industrial Pollution Projection System http://www.worldbank.org/html/prdei/ipps/home.html World Bank's first, full text, full data, research report on the World Wide Web. The World Bank with assistance from the U.S. EPA has developed the IPPS system from EPA databases containing environmental and economic data for approximately 200,000 facilities in all regions of the United States. It can separately project air, water, and solid waste emissions, and incorporates a range of risk factors for human toxic and ecotoxic effects. Since it has been developed from a database of unprecedented size and depth, it is undoubtedly the most comprehensive system of its kind in the world. The IPPS data sets will facilitate the projection of industrial pollution loads given information about the structure of industry in a region. This web page includes the following: access to the full text of the IPPS working paper. From here you can reach the IPPS Table of Contents, Executive Summary , and the full-text of the IPPS study, access to downloadable versions of the IPPS paper in zipped postscript (166K) and acrobat pdf (300K) formats. You will need a viewer for either of these formats. The World Bank can not supply these viewers, but a post script viewer is available from Ghostscript and the Adobe Acrobat viewer is available from Adobe. Access to the IPPS dataset in flat ASCII format and Lotus .wk1 format. is available via the Intensities Datasets page Hazardous Chemical Database http://odin.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd/ This database will allow the user to retrieve information for any of over 1300 hazardous chemicals based on a keyword search. Potential keywords include names, formula and registry numbers (CAS, DOT, RTECS and EPA). Informational sources for this database: DOT-P 5800.2 Hazardous Materials 1980 Emergency Response Guidebook DHEW Publication No. 780210 NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazardous 1985. NFPA 49 Hazardous Chemicals Data 1975. Federal Register Vol 45, No 229. LISTSERVS: SAFETY@UVMVM Discusses laboratory safety, hazardous waste disposal, etc.) Very active and good discussion. HAZMAT-L A forum for facilitating a central resource of chemical information such as regulatory status, and toxicology information. Subscribe: majordomo@csn.org Gopher: Detailed factsheets of EPA's three hundred and fifty toxic substances. URL:gopher://ecosys.drdr.Virginia.edu:70/11/library/factsheets/toxics OSHA informationb in Occupational Safety and Health regulations. gopher> ginfo.cs.fit.edu URL:gopher://ginfo.cs.fit.edu:70/1 The University of Virginia URL:gopher://ecosys.drdr.Virginia.edu:70/11/library/gen/toxics A very useful listing of major hazardous substances. Listed by Common Name, CAS Number, DOT Number, Date. Some Descriptor headers: hazard summary, identification, reason for citation, how to determine if you are being exposed, ways of reducing exposure, workplace controls and practices, ecological information, medical... Everything you wanted to know about landfills. URL: gopher://wissago.uwex.edu:70/v/uwex/course/landfill Material Safety Data Sheets Project sponsored by the Chemistry Department at the University of Utah. They have established an archive of unlicensed and unrestricted data sheets in ASCII text. URL: gopher://atlas.chem.utah.edu:70/11/MSDS FTP: SIRI The Safety Information Resource on the Internet (SIRI). This is a gopher and ftp site which provides access to file libraries, a searchable index and gopher links to other safety-related gopher sites. Though dedicated to a variety of safety issues, much information on issues regarding hazardous waste can be found here. URL:file://siri.uvm.edu/SIRI/SIRI_file_library/Text_files Hazardous Materials Reports A database of the Hazardous Materials reports is available in three parts via ftp: URL: file://gandalf.umcs.maine.edu/pub/hazmat/hazmat_1 URL: file://gandalf.umcs.maine.edu/pub/hazmat/hazmat_2 URL: file://gandalf.umcs.maine.edu/pub/hazmat/hazmat_3 Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly URL: file://ftp.std.com/periodicals/rachel URL:gopher://ftp.std.com/11/periodicals/rachel Published by the Environmental Research Foundation RACHEL: "Random Access Chemical Hazards Electronic Library" Numerous articles on the health effects of hazardous wate, landfills and other environmental issues. Available through ftp and gopher. Telnet RTK (Right to Know) Database Tables of information on pollution and the companies which generate it. Includes Toxic Release Inventory. URL: telnet://rtknet.org login: public The Occupational Safety and Health Exchange Lots of information resides here. Several databases relating to safety. 9. Cleaner ProductionThe UCLA Center for Clean Technology http://cct.seas.ucla.edu/cct.home.html This server provides information about a wide range of environmental research and related activities at the Center for Clean Technology (CCT) at the University of California, Los Angeles, employs a focused, multi-disciplinary approach to pressing environmental challenges. The goal of the Center is to create a science, engineering, and human resource base for the design of clean, economically competitive technologies. The Center brings together engineering and applied science research programs in: pollution prevention through innovative technologies and process design; combustion and air toxics; water and wastewater treatment; intermedia transport and fate of chemicals in the environment; remediation and restoration; and the Center for Environmental Risk Redution and Pollution Prevention, which builds upon the work of the program on Risk and Systems Analysis for the Control of Toxics (RSACT). More than thirty investigators from several departments are involved in about 50 research projects. Included in this wide range of work is research on advancing the understanding of the generation and characterization of hazardous materials, and the transport, transformation and fate of those substances in the environment. CCT investigators are also developing advanced technologies for the treatment of hazardous wastes, from, to cite only two examples, "bugs that eat bombs," to small, highly efficient incinerators. Much research is concerned with waste minimization, and other projects examine the questions "How clean is clean enough -- and why?" Interaction with industry and government agencies is an important aspect of the Center's program. In addition to collaborative research projects and an Industrial Affiliates Program, the Center's technology transfer and outreach efforts regularly feature workshops, conferences, technical reports, special seminars, newsletters, and technical advisory committee meetings. Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimization for the Manufacturer http://www.sme.org/apaa/pollut.html Pollution Prevention in the Auto Industry. Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Assistance Division. This is a compilation of pollution prevention initiatives by auto companies under the Auto Industry Pollution Prevention Project (Auto Project). The Auto Project is a partnership between the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors to focus pollution prevention efforts on persistent toxic substances that adversely affect the Great Lakes basin. AusIndustry http://www.dist.gov.au:80/AUSIND/ausinfaq.html AusIndustry is the single entry point for all government assistance programs and services for business in Australia. AusIndustry is a partnership between the Commonwealth Government and all State & Territory Governments. AusIndustry provides a delivery network for programs of the State and Territory Governments and Commonwealth departments such as Primary Industries and Energy; Employment, Education and Training; and Industrial Relations. The concept is of a single gateway to government services designed to help business to grow, export and be more profitable. National Cleaner Production Database http://www.cfd.rmit.edu.au:80/pubs/ERDNews/ERD3/CPDbase.html The National Cleaner Production Database has been developed by the EPA to give companies easy access to case study information on a wide variety of cleaner production techniques. This information will assist small to medium sized businesses to examine and improve their own methods of production. Companies that implement cleaner production can reduce production costs, save resources and reduce waste, thereby maintaining a competitive edge. The database will also provide a useful source of information for industry associations, local councils and research centres. 10. Environmentally Conscious Design and ManufacturingThe Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing (CGDM) http://euler.berkeley.edu/green/cgdm.html CGDM is an interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of California, Berkeley and an industry/government/university partnership to develop linkages between manufacturing and design and their environmental effects and to integrate engineering information, management practices and government policy-making. The Technology, Business and Environment Program at MIT http://web.mit.edu/ctpid/www/tbe/ The Technology, Business and Environment Program was founded to help companies meet the dual challenges of achieving environmental excellence and business success. The Program's mission is to elucidate a new preventive environmental management paradigm, centring on business practices and linking technological change with sound environmental management. The Technology, Business and Environment Program conducts research in product policy, loop-closing infrastructure, and the life-cycle impacts of manufacturing and use. There are a number of synopses of TBE research on-line. The policy aspect of TBE research investigates the role of extended producer responsibility and takes a closer look at durables recycling as an emerging area of product policy in the United States. Loop-closing infrastructure entails the use of models to assess the economic and technical performance of alternative future technological and policy scenario. Among its many projects, TBE is quite active in the area of "corporate greening", studying the impact of the adoption and implementation of voluntary codes of environmental management and other non-regulatory practice on organizational behaviour and culture. The Centre for Design at RMIT http://www.cfd.rmit.edu.au/CfD.html The Centre for Design at RMIT was designated a National Key Centre for Teaching and Research in May 1989. The establishment of a Key Centre in Design was a recognition by the Commonwealth government of the critical strategic role that design would play in Australia's economic, cultural and environmental development. The Centre for Design's goals are: 1. to focus the work of Australian designers, researchers, industry and government on the changing relationship between design, production and consumption; 2. to develop community and industry awareness and understanding of the role of design in achieving national economic, environmental and cultural goals; 3. to construct an expanding program of applied and speculative research projects in environmental design related to new or emerging technological, cultural, environmental or economic conditions; 4. to engage with industry, the professions and the community in the design of new systems for sustainable development; 5. to establish the Centre as a national laboratory for the development of tools and concepts and as a critical node in a network of knowledge and information, related to the above. The Green Design Initiative http://www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign/ Carnegie Mellon University began a campus-wide Green Design Initiative in 1992 to promote environmentally conscious engineering, product and process design, manufacturing, and architecture. The initiative involves forming partnerships with industrial corporations, foundations and government agencies to develop joint research and education programs which improve environmental quality while encouraging sustainable economic development. Industrial Ecology Center http://www.pica.army.mil/orgs/eto/top.html The Industrial Ecology Center (IEC), located at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, is a Department of the Army organization with a focus on the application of ecological principles to Department of the Army, Department of Defense and related commercial industrial processes. Its objective is to reduce the overall throughput of materials and energy whether they depart as emissions, products, or wastes (hazardous or solid). The program consists of alternate environmentally acceptable technologies, total quality ecological management, environmental and energy cost analysis and ecological management in support of Defense Acquisition Reform issues (green acquisition). Ecological management is a systems approach to solving environmental problems, incorporating materials and energy flows, processes, specification document review, individuals, health risk and life cycle costs. The Center for Environmental Risk Reduction and Pollution Prevention http://cct.seas.ucla.edu/cct.cerrpp.html Risk reduction is the new paradigm of future approaches to environmental pollution abatement. The risk reduction approach relies on risk as an "indicator" of potential or existing environmental problems. In this paradigm one utilizes a risk-based approach to prioritize environmental problems and to guide the development of alternative strategies for risk reduction. Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing (ECM) ECM is more than waste minimization. Prevent pollution, Increase recycling, Enhance safety, Reduce energy, Transfer technology. Global Network Of Environment & Technology http://gnet.together.org/GNET/ Through GNET, you can find the information, people, and resources that make up the environment and technology community. . GNET is the gateway to constantly-updated information on innovative environmental technologies, business and news, with leads to marketing intelligence, financing and contracting opportunities. GNET seeks to promote sustainable development and environmental remediation through technological innovation, with a focus upon commercializing Department of Energy developed applications. Featuring moderated discussion forums as well as full-text search capabilities, GNET is an interactive community as well as in-depth data source for the environmental marketplace. Interduct As co-ordinator of the environmental and energy related research, Interduct can supply you with information about current research projects and research potential in the Delft UT at the interface between the environment, energy and technology. Depending on the nature of your problem and your wishes, Interduct can take on the role of information centre, adviser or co-ordinator for new research projects. In order to fulfil these tasks properly Interduct has a team of researchers with practical operational experience, who may be commissioned to carry out studies into the technological aspects of environmental and energy related questions and the environmental aspects of process and product innovation. The Environmentally Conscious Design & Manufacturing Lab at the University of Windsor http://cobra.esxf.uwindsor.ca/ecdm_lab.html Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing Lab (ECDM Lab) in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. This lab currently is devoted to research including the following areas: Design For Disassembly: economic models, material recovery opportunities, disassembly sequences, automatic tools for DFD analysis, Life-Cycle Analysis: energy, material , waste , product process, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: material substitutes , material compatibility, process/product evaluation models. The group has produced a number of publications that are available here. A Virtual Class on Life Cycle Analysis is available here. Reverse Logistics http://www.tue.nl/ivo/lbs/main/index.html Reverse Logistics is the process of continuously taking back products and/or packaging materials to avoid further waste disposal in landfills or high energy consumption through the incineration process. It has the following characteristics. First it is a continuous embedded process. It is not just a one-time occurrence, but is an important part of the company's strategy. Second, Reverse Logistics involves a thorough re-examination of the product life cycle to determine the amount of energy and waste consumed in each phase of the product's life cycle. The results of this research should be used as a solid base for designing waste reduction programs. Third, Reverse Logistics supports the overall environmental mission of the organization. In this way, it can be used as a powerful marketing tool. Reverse Logistics is mainly driven by heightened consumer awareness, environmentally friendly products designed by competitors and the legislation imposed by governments. The following functions are part of the Reverse Logistics channel: collection, sorting , storage transport , compacting, shredding and densification , communication with buyers, processing or filtration , retromanufacturing Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing Program (ECMP) http://www.isc.rit.edu/~633www/research/ecm/ecm_center.html located in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. This program currently is devoted to research in the Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing field including the following areas: Disassembly , Recycling , Remanufacturing, material recovery opportunities , Anti-Lock Brake Remanufacture , automatic tools for DFD analysis , Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing , The Economics of Remanufacture , Design for Remanufacturing, Life Cycle Costing , Reverse Engineering , Failure Mode Analysis. The ECM Program has produced a technical newsletter in the area of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing that is available here. The Materials Systems Laboratory at MIT http://web.mit.edu/org/c/ctpid/www/msl/index.html The MIT Materials Systems Laboratory is internationally recognized for its innovative work on the competitive position of materials and products in automotive, aerospace, electronic and environmental applications. It fosters a unique combination of knowledge of design and production processes used in industry with managerial economics. The Materials Systems Laboratory has been particularly successful in developing an understanding of the cost of using new materials, such as powdered metals and ceramics, in a wide range of applications and contexts. Researchers in the Laboratory have, over the last 15 years, developed over 60 "technical cost models" that project the cost of using alternative technologies to manufacture products such as electronic circuit boards and automotive structures under various conditions of labour productivity, raw material prices and volumes of production. This information is crucial to the development of coherent industrial policies for the investment and use of new materials and materials intensive products. 11. RecyclingGlobal Recycling Network Inc. Information service to aid businesses around the world to recycle resources, surplus manufactured goods and outdated or used machinery. Global Futures Foundation This environmental non-profit organisation deals with source reduction, pollution prevention and economic instruments. It focuses on systematically integrating programs which lead to source reduction, pollution prevention, low-cost market development, and incentive market driven regulatory structures which tend to reduce both economic and environmental costs. Waste Management at the University of Waterloo http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca:80/infowast/ Use Less Stuff Valuable information on waste reduction and resource conservation The Cygnus Group Web site is designed to provide individuals and organizations with information regarding the most efficient and effective ways to reduce waste and conserve resources. Thus, the focus is on source reduction and reuse, rather than just recycling. Brown University Resource Conservation Program http://netspace.students.brown.edu/environ/ National Materials Exchange Network http://www.earthcycle.com/g/p/earthcycle// Created by a grant from the U.S. EPA and now funded and overseen by Earthcycle, the National Materials Exchange Network has been the free local and international on-line marketplace for trading and recycling used and surplus materials and goods for over six years. With over 10,000 current listings (including 3,000 outside the U.S.), the Network allows state waste exchanges and industrial and consumer users at no charge to immediately list or search among thirty categories of available and wanted items as diverse as scrap and precious metals, paper products, surplus chemicals, computer components, gems, textiles, auto and boat equipment and electronics goods. City of Seattle http://www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/html/enviro.html The City's Public Access Network for environmental data. It boasts an interesting section on household hazardous wastes, recycling, disposal fees and yard waste Environmental Management - University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.wisc.edu/campus_ecology/ Campus Ecology activities are co-ordinated by Environmental Management (E.M.), a program of UW Physical Plant. E.M. staff collaborate with students, faculty, facility managers, and administrators to encourage resource conservation, pollution prevention, and protection of natural areas. Cheshire County Council's plans for sustainable waste management http://www.u-net.com/cheshpln/la21/lw.html Cheshire, a county in the north-west of England, has set out its plans for more sustainable waste management Wastenot The International Environmental Group's information source. It presents solutions to environmental problems, aimed at industry and commerce Air and Waste Management Home address of this non-profit technical and educational organisation which aims to assist in the professional development and critical environmental decision making of members to benefit society. To enhance environmental knowledge and provide quality information on which to base environmental decisions. The Compost Resource Page http://www.oldgrowth.org/compost/ Chris Palmarini's fascinating home for facts (and poetry) associated with compost Recycler's World http://www.recycle.net/recycle/ Information on secondary and recyclable commodoties. Recycler's World was established to be a world wide trading site for information relating to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used and surplus items or materials. National Materials Exchange Network A free recyclables marketplace from Earthcycle Energy and Environmental Resource Center http://www.eerc.und.nodak.edu/new/waste.html Cost-effective, environmentally sound management of our wastes continues to be a volatile issue, the solution for which must integrate science, technology, individual responsibility, and policy. Waste management must address utilization, the preferred option, and disposal, the option of last resort. The EERC's approach to waste management begins with understanding the complete and detailed physical, chemical, mineralogical, leaching, and biological character of the waste in question. This understanding is critical to successful utilization or environmentally friendly disposal and enables us to predict what is in a material, how much is there, how it may leach out, and how it will ultimately behave. EERC groundwater and waste management research is directed toward understanding the occurrence, transport, and fate of contaminants that may move out of waste deposits into the surrounding environment, so that risks can be safely managed in the disposal setting. The understanding developed in waste management research is also valuable in the cleanup of contaminated sites. Waste management details from the University of North Dakota LISTSERVS: Recycling in practice. Good discussion. Nutrient cycling issues. Not a lot going on here yet The College and University Recycling Coordinators Exchange List for discussion of recycling programs at institutions of higher learning. Telnet: PENPages Keyword search on recycling URL:telnet://psupen.psu.edu login: your two-letter state code Gopher: The Texas A&M University gopher has a section on recycling. Contains non-technical, consumer-oriented information. gopher://gopher.tamu.edu/11/.dir/recycle.clean.dir 12. BioremediationThe Marine Bioremediation Program at the University of Washington http://weber.u.washington.edu/~uwmbp/prog.html The University of Washington is pleased to announce an exciting research and training initiative in Marine Bioremediation. The new Marine Bioremediation Program (MBP), initially supported by a major grant from the U.S.Navy's Office of Naval Research, capitalizes on outstanding UW faculty and laboratory resources across many departments. Its goal is to bring fundamental, mechanistic and process-oriented approaches to an understanding of real and potential bioremedial activities of microorganisms in polluted marine sediments. The concept of in situ bioremediation, one of our primary concerns, involves the deliberate and strategic manipulation of living communities within a contaminated site in order to alter the pathways or enhance the typically slow rate of natural biodegradation. EnviroTRADE http://em-50.em.doe.gov/et/et.html EnviroTRADE (Environmental Technologies Remedial Actions Data Exchange) is an environmental information system that matches environmental needs with potential technological solutions and conversely, matches technological solutions with environmental needs by combining state-of-the-art information management techniques, graphical user interfaces, and geographical informations system (GIS) capabilities. The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) is committed to the remediation of waste sites throughout its complex by the year 2019. Environmental technologies must be identified and developed that will facilitate the remediation of existing problems and minimize future waste streams. Examples of remediation problems throughout the DOE complex include but are not limited to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in soils and groundwater, soils contaminated with radionuclides and heavy metals, and mixed waste sites containing both hazardous and radioactive waste. Beyond these environmental restoration problems are those related to the management of waste such as its characterization, monitoring, treatment, and disposal. Biotechnology Industry Organization The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is the largest trade organization to serve and represent the emerging biotechnology industry in the United States and around the globe. The organization's leadership and service-oriented guidance have helped advance the industry and bring the benefits of biotechnology to the people of the world. As the leading voice for the biotechnology industry, BIO represents companies of all sizes engaged in the development of products and services in the areas of agriculture, biomedicine, diagnostics, food, energy and environmental applications. Though biotechnology's future is bright, the industry's success will depend on the commitment, energy and direction of the group that helps guide its growth. BIO is a vital forum and an invaluable focal point to bring together the resources and expertise to meet critical challenges and serve the needs of its members. Bio Online (sm), a comprehensive site for information and services related to biotechnology on the Internet, combines resources of the biotechnology companies, biotechnology centers, research and academic institutions, industry suppliers, government agencies, and non-profit special interest groups Yahoo Index of Biotechnology http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Biology/Biotechnology/ Biomedical Engineering, Conferences, Institutes, journals, Organizations, Biotechnology Industry News. BioTech's Biotechnology Dictionary - free, searchable on-line dictionary of biology, chemistry and biotechnology terms. Biotechnology Information Center. Brown Lab MicroArray - Provides information regarding the use and production of DNA MicroArrays. Edible Vaccines from Transgenic Plants. Entrez Browser - Searchable index from the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Glossary of Biotechnology Terms - A cross-referenced and soon-to-be searchable glossary of biology and biotechnology terminology. Alliance Bioremediation and Composting Corporation The primary focus of ABCC's business strategy is to make available and to market microbial and enzymic products and programs designed to cleanup organic wastes and gases and to reduce disease in aquacultural systems. Nature has always recycled organic wastes to purify and to restore waters with the use of microbes and the enzymes that microbes produce. Chemical and synthetic additives interfere with this process with devastating consequences. We can duplicate and accelerate nature's way of recycling plant and animal wastes in our water systems. Through extensive research and experimentation, the Company has compiled superior products and methodologies for the conversion of aquatic wastes into clean environments for the raising of finfish and shellfish. The accelerated growth of microbes and enzymes has taken years to develop and is creating a revolutionary approach to the cleanup of contamination and pollution. They are proving to be the most efficient and cost-effective way to combat fungi and disease causing pathogens that decimate fish and shellfish populations. In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation: The Fourth International Symposium http://www.estd.battelle.org/er/events/4th-symposium.html This symposium series is sponsored by Battelle, an international not-for-profit technology organization, with additional support from a number of other environmental research organizations. The third meeting, held in San Diego in April 1995, was attended by nearly 2,000 researchers and engineers representing companies, universities, and government agencies in 38 countries. More than 650 platform and poster presentations were made, and several dozen organizations exhibited their technologies and capabilities. Like its predecessors, the 1997 meeting will be designed to promote technology transfer and integrate the latest developments in research and applications. The Call for Abstracts will be released early in 1996. To receive the Call for Abstracts and subsequent program information or to inquire about cosponsoring or exhibiting at the 1997 meeting, contact the Symposium Registrar by telephone (800-783-6338 USA and Canada or 614-424-5461), by fax (614-488-5740), or through Internet (102632.3100@compuserve.com). University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database http://dragon.labmed.umn.edu/~lynda/aboutBBD.html This is a database containing information on microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways for primarily xenobiotic, chemical compounds. The goal of the UM-BBD is to provide information on microbial enzyme-catalyzed reactions that are important for biotechnology. The reactions covered are studied for basic understanding of nature, biocatalysis leading to speciality chemical manufacture, and biodegradation of environmental pollutants. Individual reactions and metabolic pathways are presented with information on the starting and intermediate chemical compounds, the organisms that transform the compounds, the enzymes, and the genes. The present database has been successfully used to teach enzymology and use of biochemical Internet information resources to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and is being expanded primarily with the help of such students. Bio-Anaerobic Soil and Water Cleanup http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/1/Environment/BARR The documents in this directory detail a new technique for cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater. The process is accomplished in-situ by the introduction of a biologically active reductant into the contaminated zone via hollow soil probes. This treatment causes radical changes in the chemistry of the contaminated system. Called "Bio-Anaerobic Reduction and Reoxidation" (abbreviated BARR) this is a method to create repetitive sequential environments (reducing and oxidizing) in the proximity of a subsurface contaminated formation. BARR will theoretically degrade ANY organic contaminant, including halogenated compounds, such as PCB's. 13. Regulations and StandardsThe Multilaterals Project http://www.tufts.edu/fletcher/multilaterals.html The project, which begun in 1992, is an ongoing project at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy,Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts to make available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments. Although the project was initiated to improve public access to environmental agreements, the collection today also includes treaties in the fields of human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other areas. Although the vast majority of texts date from the second half of this century, the collection also includes historical texts, from the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia to the Covenant of the League of Nations. Text versions of these files can also be found in the anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.fletcher.tufts.edu/pub/diplomacy (formerly jade.tufts.edu), where files are organized by a filenaming system based on the Bowman & Harris guide, Multilateral Treaties (Nottingham Treaty Centre). Users of the ftp site should first consult the chronological INDEX to obtain the file name. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) UNCED, Agenda21, preconference documents gopher://nywork1.undp.org WAIS> info.cern.ch unced-agenda.src Federal Register (US) Searchable by subject (Environ, Energy, Agriculture) and by agency. gopher://gopher.counterpoint.com:2002/11/ OSHA Document Citations Searchable OSHA document citations. Federal Legislation via Library of Congress The Library of Congress Information System contains federal legislation introduced in Congress since 1973. Information includes summaries and status of legislation. Searchable by subject (legislative), member's name, key words, bill number, public law number, committee name. Current file updated daily. This database has limited hours (no login required). URL:telnet://locis.loc.gov Whitehouse Press Releases on the Environment Press releases, speeches and proclamations are available by subject at this location and many are included on the environment. An easy place to find relatively current information from the Whitehouse. EPA Press Releases are available by subscribing to: listserver@unixmail.rtpnc.epa.gov with the following message: SUBSCRIBE EPA-PRESS <your name> Used as distribution list only. Chronological listing and description of environmental laws. http://www.epri.com/Strategic/VitalIssues/EnvironmentalLaws.html 14. Life Cycle Analysis. Assessment and IndicatorsCentre for Environmental Strategy http://info-server.surrey.ac.uk/CES/ The Centre for Environmental Strategy is a multi-disciplinary research centre which aims to: Develop and apply methods to assess the environmental and social effects of human activities. Examine environmental issues within their broad context, addressing their root causes to go beyond problem analysis to facilitating sustainable solutions. Present the results of these analyses to enable informed technological, economic, social and political choices. Provide education and training within and outside the University to promote these aims. Green Seal http://www.crest.org/environment/GreenSeal/index.html An independent, non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the environment by promoting the manufacture and sale of environmentally preferable consumer products. It sets environmental standards and allows the use of its certification mark on products found to meet them. Green Seal also educates consumers on how to use their buying decisions to help the environment. This site contains background information on Green Seal, a list of Green Seal's certified products, and brief descriptions of Green Seal standards. ISO 14000 Standards A draft version of the ISO 14000 Standards is available at this URL. ISO 14000 covers standardization of: environmental management systems, environmental performance evaluations, environmental auditing, life cycle assessment, and environmental labelling. ISO 14000. Resources related to ISO14000 http://www.quality.org/qc/html/iso14000.html A dynamic network formed to educate, train and inform industry, government, and non-governmental organizations about these international environmental management standards. Institute for Technology Management (ITEM-HSG) http://www.unisg.ch/~item/index.html This project at University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) is named QMS / EMS and stands for quality-management-system and environmental-management-system, respectively. Contents of the project is the introduction of environmental management systems by using synergies between quality- and environmental-management-systems. ISO 14000 Information http://www.stoller.com/iso.html The emerging set of ISO 14000 standards is the most comprehensive environmental quality management initiative ever undertaken. This standard is expected to be the international environmental quality benchmark for conducting business in the global marketplace of the 21st century. The first edition of the standard is expected to be issued in 1996 and will prescribe requirements for environmental quality management as defined by the International Organization for Standardization in Geneva, Switzerland. The ISO 14000 standard will support the corporate goals of achieving compliance with legal requirements; establishing internal environmental quality policies, and managing marketplace expectations. These goals will be accomplished by implementing environmental quality management systems, environmental audits, environmental performance evaluations, product life-cycle assessments, and product labelling. All of these activities comprise a strategic environmental quality programme that can be a distinct competitive advantage as well as the gateway to an organization's successful future. Tellus Institute. Life-Cycle Assessment http://www.channel1.com/users/tellus/r-lca.html Quick Access to information on U.S. Packaging Study - Mexico Study - Life Cycle Design - LCA, Energy, and Waste - LCA in Rule-Making - Methodology Development. Life-cycle assessment has emerged as a valuable decision-support tool for both policy makers and industry in assessing the cradle-to-grave impacts of a product or process. Three forces are driving this evolution. First, government regulations are moving in the direction of "life-cycle accountability;" the notion that a manufacturer is responsible not only for direct production impacts, but also for impacts associated with product inputs, use, transport, and disposal. Second, business is participating in voluntary initiatives which contain LCA and product stewardship components. These include, for example, ISO 14000 and the Chemical Manufacturer Association's Responsible Care Program, both of which seek to foster continuous improvement through better environmental management systems. Third, environmental "preferability" has emerged as a criterion in both consumer markets and govern-ment procurement guidelines. Together these developments have placed LCA in a central role as a tool for identifying cradle-to-grave impacts both of products and the materials from which they are made. Ecocycle A newsletter on life-cycle tools, management and product policy, shares information on policy and technical issues related to life-cycle management (LCM) tools. A valuable source of LCM ideas and information. IVAM Environmental Research http://www.ivambv.uva.nl/welcome.html#home A database on building materials to be used for environmental life cycle analysis (LCA). It consists of more than 250 processes, leading to more than 100 materials. These materials have been selected for their application in the building sector, however most data can be used for LCA applications in other sectors. Decision making on product alternatives often requires comparing of alternatives and scenario calculations by asking 'what if...?' questions. The alternatives may be related building products, and scenario's may describe waste disposal options. The implications of such choices can readily be shown with a user-friendly software programme. We consider SimaPro 3 to be such a programme, appreciated internationally and adapted regularly to the latest LCA methodology developments. For these reasons we chose to present our data in SimaPro 3 format. The Energy Systems Laboratory (LES) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich , Switzerland. Description of research being conducted on LCA (classification and Valuation) , Environmental Product Design, LCA of Energy Systems, LCA of Recycled Paper and contact coordinates 15. Chemical Education. Tutorials and Teaching ResourcesClearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials (CCIIM) http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/cciimnro.html The CCIIM is jointly sponsored by the Special Libraries Association Chemistry Division and the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information. It includes items that have been developed by chemistry or science librarians, chemists, and others for instruction in the use of chemical information sources. The CCIIM is jointly sponsored by the Special Libraries Association Chemistry Division and the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information. It includes items that have been developed by chemistry or science librarians, chemists, and others for instruction in the use of chemical information sources. The ASCII files are also accessible on the Indiana University Chemistry Library Gopher: (gopher://lib-gopher.lib.indiana.edu:7050/11/cciim). Using CAS Databases on STN http://info.cas.org/ACAD/cover.html The tutorials are adapted from the hardcopy student manual of the CAS Academic Instruction Program (first published in 9/94). However, the material is equally well suited as a general purpose introduction to on-line searching on STN. The National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education http://www.snre.umich.edu/nppc/#top Pollution is one of the most destructive ways that humans affect life on this planet. Preventing pollution of air, land, or water is more logical and cost-effective than controlling existing pollution. Many industry employees are learning how to prevent pollution on the job. But pollution prevention (P2) is still not widely taught in colleges. To meet this need, the National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education (NPPC) develops P2 educational materials (compendia) for university instructional faculty. These materials help faculty incorporate the principles of P2 into existing or new courses; they contain resources for professors as well as assignments for students. The U.S. EPA created the NPPC in 1991 to collect, develop, and disseminate educational materials on pollution prevention; the University of Michigan was selected as the site. The NPPC represents a collaborative effort between business and industry, government, non-profit organizations, and academia. NIH Molecular Modeling Home Page http://cmm.info.nih.gov/modeling/ This includes the NIH Guide to Molecular Modeling and links to other guides and tutorials. Chemical Information http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem/cheminfo/cistudio/index.html WWW-based, studio course co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and the Rensselaer Libraries. CIStudio is a 1995 Excellence in Online Education Award of Merit (sponsored by Knight-Ridder Information, Inc.) recipient. Representation Models in Molecular Graphics. http://scsg9.unige.ch/fln/eng/toc.html http://scsg9.unige.ch/fln/tabmat.html (French version) A text on visualization and rendering techniques in chemistry. U.S. National Library of Cognitive Science Branch. The ETB conducts R & D in computer and multimedia technologies. There are texts of monographs on "Authoring Systems" and "Guidelines for Designing Effective and Healthy Learning Environments for Interactive Technologies." The Chemistry Hypermedia Project at VirginiaTech http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/vt-chem-ed.html The Chemistry Hypermedia Project is exploring new ways to apply computer and network technology to help students learn chemistry. The specific goals of this project are: 1. To use the Internet to provide supplemental educational resources to chemistry students. 2. To determine effective hypermedia designs for chemical education. 3. To evaluate the distribution of multimedia educational material over the Internet. 4. To develop, evaluate, and disseminate transferable prototype programs for interactive exercises. These hypermedia tutorials exist for analytical, organic, and physical chemistry, and more applications are under construction. Global Instructional Chemistry This is Henry Rzepa's collection of "small 'stories' or case histories illustrating modern chemistry in action, liberally dosed with 'hyperactive' molecules which you will be able to rotate, measure, and generally play with." A number of courses relevant to chemistry from around the world are accessible from this site. The content will include chemical problems suitable for tutorial and classes, a page where you can log-in to suitable on-line information databases, pages where you can acquire programs and other software, and any other good ideas that people come up with. The World Lecture Hall. http://wwwhost.cc.utexas.edu/world/instruction/index.html A clearinghouse for Web-based course materials. Featured are subject-specific course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc. The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty world-wide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc. CIStudio: Chemical Information at Rensselaer http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem/cheminfo/cistudio/index.html CIStudio is the first WWW-based course in Chemical Information, designed for Chemistry majors at Rensselaer. Developed by Joseph Warden (wardej@rpi.edu) and Colette Holmes (holmec@rpi.edu) the emphasis is on interactive learning using both print and electronic sources. Internet Resources for Mathematics and Science Education. http://www.inform.umd.edu.:8080/compres/netinfo/readingroom/internetresources/math-science-edu Version 1.2, October 19, 1993, Compiled by T. C. O'Haver. This is a very good compilation of resources in all areas of math and science education. FTP to inform.umd.edu and get the file math-science-edu in the directory: inforM/Computing_Resources/NetInfo/ReadingRoom/InternetResources LBL's Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Science http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/ELSI.html Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory tackles hard issues that face contemporary scientists every day. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's ELSI in Science program is a pilot project designed to stimulate discussions on the implications of selected areas of scientific research. These modules probably will be most useful to educators and students at the middle school level. However, older students may benefit from some of the information as well. A second goal of the program is to highlight some of the research activities taking place at the lab. The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/quest/zdocmain.html The Cambridge Structural Database System (CSDS) consists of two major components: The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). Software for Search, Retrieval, Analysis and Display of CSD contents. Access Excellence, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, US. National educational program sponsored by the biotechnology industry pioneer, Genentech, Inc. Resources for science teachers including breaking news in science, virus information, a biotechnology resource centre monthly seminars hosted by scientists on topics including leeches and immunology, and more. Amazing Science at the Roxy http://www.hood-consulting.com/amazing/index.html This site provides K-12 physical science education materials that are specifically designed for teachers, parents and students. Its chemistry section includes the electronic editions of the NCW Wonderscience, and downloadable movies of common chemistry demonstrations. BioNet http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bionet.html Funded under the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, BioNet is designed to allow computer-based teaching to move into the mainstream of teaching in biology and preclinical medicine. ChemCAI: Instructional Software for Chemistry Information for teachers and course designers on what's available from both commercial and non-commercial sources, links to other instructional resources. Downloadable CAI demos, digital texts and other materials from Simon Fraser University. Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) http://www.liv.ac.uk/ctichem.html Centre for Chemistry, University of Liverpool. The Centre's Software Catalogue has over 400 items of software (for which independent reviews exist) for use in chemistry. Chemistry at NISS. NISS (National Information Services and Systems) provides information services over the UK Joint Academic Network and acts as a focus for computer disseminated information for the academic community. Gopher to gopher.niss.ac.uk Port=71 and follow the path: NISS Bulletin Board Data > ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES > SUBJECTS A TO F > CHEMISTRY Chemistry Teaching Resources http://www.anachem.umu.se/eks/pointers.html A comprehensive list of information available on the Internet pertinent to chemistry teaching. This list is aintained by Kurt Irgum. ChemViz (Chemical Visualization Project) Available via anonymous ftp to host zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (141.142.20.50) at directory/Education/ChemViz ChemViz is an NSF funded grant project to use high-powered computing and communications to help high school students better visualize abstract concepts of chemistry. Images and animations of calculated atomic and molecular orbitals can be made on Macintoshes. Contact Todd Veltman (tveltman@ncsa.uiuc.edu) for details. CICOURSE, Chemical Information Courses on the Internet CICOURSE was established in September 1994 by Gary Wiggins (wiggins@indiana.edu). Its purpose is to provide a forum in which people can teach and learn about chemical information sources in all of their rich and varied forms. To subscribe, send the message: SUB CICOURSE your firstname yourlastname to: LISTSERV@IUBVM or: LISTSERV@IUBVM.INDIANA.EDU Proposals for courses, workshops, etc. should be sent to the Listowner, Gary Wiggins at wiggins@indiana.edu. Course materials are available via gopher (URL gopher://lib-gopher.lib.indiana.edu:7050/11/c400). NetBiochem http://www.hahnemann.edu/Heme-Iron/NetWelco.html NetBiochem is a prototype of a biochemistry education, research, and publication centre on the Internet. It contains instruction- al material in selected biochemistry topics, as well as links to some of the important research and publication sites. It is mirrored at the University of Utah: http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/NetBiochem/NetWelco.html 16. General Chemistry DatabasesChemistry Gopher at Yale. http://www.library.yale.edu/scilib/chem/chemres.html The Chemistry Gopher at Yale is an excellent example of a resource that leads through Gopherspace for topics such as chemical software, data (numeric and factual) funding information, directories of scientists, etc. Atomic scattering factors for the elements http://xray.uu.se/hypertext/ptable.html A periodic table/form-based data resource. The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/ Biodegradation Database http://dragon.labmed.umn.edu/~lynda/index.html A database prototype featuring information on biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways for selected chemicals. "The goal of the UM-BBD is to provide information on microbial enzyme-catalyzed reactions that are important for biotechnology." Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database (BMCD) http://ibm4.carb.nist.gov:4400/ The Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database (BMCD) contains crystal data and the crystallization conditions, which have been compiled from literature. These include proteins, protein:protein complexes, nucleic acid, nucleic acid:nucleic acid complexes, protein:nulceic acid complexes, and viruses. Australian Chemistry Network Server. Located on the WWW Server at the Chemistry Department, University College (UNSW) at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. Buckyball database. This fullerene database is accessible via anonymous ftp at: physics.arizona.edu. login: anonymous passwd: your email ad dress. It is found in: /afc/ibmpc. The site has a program called PCBIB that allows searches of the database by keywords. The resource is based on materials from Professor Richard E. Smalley's BuckyBall Bibliography. It can also be searched by telnetting to: sabio.arizona.edu. Choose "Other databases" from the menu, then BuckyBall Database. ChemFinder WebServer (tm) The ChemFinder WebServer (CambridgeSoft Corp.), a chemical database, contains over 3500 compounds searchable by name, by chemical formula and by substructure. Imperial College, London Gopher Server. Posted there are Quicktime movies, playable on either Macintosh or Microsoft Windows using appropriate software, e.g., TurboGopher for the Macintosh. Point your gopher toward argon.ch.ic.ac.uk. Quicktime movies are also archived on the Gopher+ server argon fddi.ch.ic.ac.uk (155.198.1.33). Files which reside in the directory Royal_Society_of_Chemistry/Chemical_Communications/3 02351F are from the Journal of the Chemical Society: Chemical Communications. Chemical Safety: Hazardous Materials Classification. Telnet forsythe.tn.stanford.edu and login as SOCRATES. Answers to the questions eventually lead you to Folio, Stanford's Campus Information System. Enter at the prompt: Your Response: SEL CHEM The database contains information on hazardous properties such as flammability and corrosivity, toxic effects such as carcinogenicity, toxicity, and target organ. Chemistry and Materials (NASA SCAN). http://www.sti.nasa.gov/scan/chem-mat.html Electronic Selected Current Aerospace Notices (E-SCAN): World Wide Web access to references taken from the NASA database. Indiana University Chemistry Library Gopher. gopher lib-gopher.lib.indiana.edu and follow the path: Subject Approach to IU Libraries and Internet Resources > Chemistry Library Gopher. Text files of various handouts and user guides to reference tools (e.g. Beilstein) as well as the text files of the Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials are found on this gopher. Chemistry Index at Free University Berlin http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/index.html This is a collection of resources, many of them data bases or files produced at FU Berlin. Included are files on Fundamental Physical Constants, Acronyms (with emphasis on chemistry and spectroscopy), and Amino Acids (arranged by name with the abbreviations and linear structural formulas). Fundamental Physical Constants http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/codata86/codata86.html A tabulation of the 1986 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants. Klotho: Biochemical Compounds Declarative Database There were 439 unique compounds in the database as of 2/19/95. It is part of an attempt to model biological processes, beginning with biochemistry. Material Database, San Diego State University. This is a factual database on clays, ceramics, feldspar, etc. It has such data as MW, Molecular Analysis, and Percentage Analysis. gopher gopher.sdsu.edu and follow the path: SDSU campus topics > Departmental Information > Art Department > The Ceramics Gopher > Material Database Corrections or additions should be sent to: rburkett@ucssun1.sdsu.edu MedChem/Biobyte WWW Server. This server is maintained by the Medcinal Chemistry Project as a service to the chemistry community and by Biobyte Corp. to provide information about it's products. Includes: MedChem Names Database - Over 30,000 compounds. QSAR Database - 6,000 datasets; physical and biological systems. MicroPatent Web Services (PatentWEB) U.S. Patents from 1974 forward are accessible on the PatentWEB (TM) with free Full Test searching of recent patents. Fee-based searches, translations and document delivery services are available. User registration required. NMR Periodic Table http://wwwchem.tamu.edu:80/services/NMR/periodic.html A magnetic properties database modelled after WebElements. Nucleic Acid Database (NDB) Archive. NDB at Rutgers University is accessible also by gopher service (gopher://ndb.rutgers.edu) Quantum Chemistry Acronyms database http://hackbery.chem.niu.edu:70/1/quantum%20chemistry%20acronyms%20database SEE: Northern Illinois Chemical Gopher under GOPHERS Questel Orbit Patent and Trademark WWW Server http://www.questel.orbit.com/patents/ This is an excellent source for information about patents, with links to the other patent sources mentioned in this section. Retrieve (GenBank) server (genetics databases). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/Web/Genbank/index.html Send the message HELP to: retrieve@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Shadow Patent Office. http://www.spo.eds.com/patent.html The Electronic Data Systems Shadow Patent Office offers patentability and infringement searches against the full-text of the 1.7 million U.S. patents issued since January 1972. For information about this service via e-mail, send a message to spo_patent@spo.eds.com with the word "help" as the body of the message. STO Internet Patent Search System http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html Source Translation & Optimization's (STO) Internet Patent Search System enables patent searches and access to information on the patenting process. Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop/ The SCOP database aims to provide a detailed, comprehensive description of the structural and evolutionary relationships between all proteins whose structures are known. Mirrored in the United States at http://www.pdb.bnl.gov/scop/ http://www.prosci.uci.edu/scop/ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Chemical Substance Factsheets gopher://ecosys.drdr.Virginia.edu:70/11/library/gen/toxics U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Scientific and Technical Information Program. WAIS access to the NASA RECON database, the NASA thesaurus, and SCAN (Selected Current Aerospace Notices), including topics: Chemistry and Materials, Life Sciences, Physics. U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Library (access to Bibliographies, 1990- ) Gopher to gopher.niehs.nih.gov/1/niehs-librabry and select among the technical information entries. U.S. National Library of Medicine Gopher. http://www.nlm.nih.gov or gopher to gopher.nlm.nih.gov. The NLM gopher contains information about the library and selected reference materials. It also provides access to Locator, NLM's on-line catalog system and to MEDLARS and TOXNET (for those with access codes). U.S. National Library of Medicine Publications. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/publications/publications.html The National Library of Medicine produces a wide variety of publications for health professionals and librarians. These include indexes to the biomedical literature, newsletters and reports about library activities and programs, bibliographies on biomedical topics, and manuals for using NLM programs and services. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database 1994- . This database comes from Internet Town Hall, an NSF-funded project at New York University School of Business. Full-text access to patent documents is no longer available at this site due to termination of funding. WebElements http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/Table/index.html (Periodic Table) mirror at the University of California, Berkeley This includes the Periodic Table database, an Isotope Pattern Calculator, and an Element percentage calculator. This is a true periodic table with data supplied by Mark Winter at the Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield. Also at: University of Sheffield UK - The home site of WebElements http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/ http://chemserv.bc.edu/web-elements/web-elements-home.html ARI Chemlink/Databases http://www.ari.net/chemnet/Databases.html Commercial Databases Chemical Information Service, a division of PSI International, Inc. Publicly Accessible Databases The University of Utah's Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) Brookhaven's Protein Data Bank FTP site. Rutgers University's Nucleic Acid Data Chemistry Databases: Chemicals and Safety http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/index/chemdb/subst Subdirectories, References Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds [en] Chemikalien: Sicherheitsdaten (Datenbank) [de] Fisher Chemicals, General Analytical Reagents [en] Gefahrensymbole The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Chemical Engineering: http://www.che.ufl.edu/WWW-CHE/topics/data.html Databases relevant to chemical and process engineering. ARSoftware ARInternet offers a suite of information services of specific interest to Scientific, Engineering, Medical, and Education professionals and students, or to anyone interested in finding chemical information. Chemistry http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/Chemistry/ 1. Getting Started with the Web 2. Guides to Chemical Information on the Internet 3. Organizations These guides contain a lot of information about WWW, Internet, FTP, gopher, and other resources that are not covered on this page (e.g., listservs, software archives, etc.). They also provide information about resources in the areas covered on this guide that were not selected for inclusion. Databases and Data Collections http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem/cheminfo/chemres/chemres_03.html KR Information OnDisc(tm); At A Glance/KR Information OnDisc® http://www.dialog.com/dialog/publications/ondisc-at-a-glance.html The KR Information OnDISC family of products provides a variety of DIALO databases on compact discs for local storage and use. Because the KR Information OnDisc databases feature direct local access to information, they offer unlimited searching for a fixed rate Science Databases page/Science Databases Available http://library.ust.hk/info/db/science.html Online Databases Database Search Room Standalone CD-ROM Station Campus Information Applied Science & Technology Index (1983-) provides citations to articles appearing in 390 English-language periodicals dealing with applied science and technology. Biological Chemistry Sites http://ch-www.st-and.ac.uk/info/chemistry.html ACS and Gordon Conference Schedule American Chemical Society Biomolecular & Biosequence Databases (Harvard, USA) BIONET Biosym, Dibug Brookhaven Protein Data Base Bruker NMR Buckyball bibliography at the Arizona Fullerene Consortium University of California Chemical and biological defense information analysis center http://www.batelle.org/cbiac/info_p&.s.html The CBIAC has a collection of over 22,000 Chemical Warfare/Chemical and Biological Defense (CW/CBD) related documents, books, videotapes and magnetic diskettes. UCSD Science and Engineering Library - Chemistry/Directories of Internet Sites http://scilib.ucsd.edu/subjectdir/chemistry.html Selected Individual Sites in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Chemical Engineering 1. Materials safety data sheets (MSDS) 2. Periodic table of the elements ILO - CIS - International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre http://turva.me.tut.fi/cis/home.html ILO - CIS - International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre Institute for Molecular and Agricultural Genetic Engineering http://image.fs.uidaho.edu/biotech/ University of Idaho Institute for Molecular and Agricultural Genetic Engineering (IMAGE). Some Highly Interesting WWW Sites for Biotechnologists: Molecular Biology Tools, Databases, and Lists, Publications and News. Chemical Engineering URL's Directory/Chemical Engineering Sites all over the World http://www.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/chem-eng.html 1. General Information on the Web 2. Newsgroups 3. Conferences 17. E-mail servers, Listservs, Newsgroups, Etc.NB: The ListWebber softwarehttp://www.lib.ncsu.edu:80/staff/morgan/listwebber.html can be used to conduct searches of lists that are based on the LISTSERV software. Chemical Mailing Lists - http://bionmr1.rug.ac.be/chemistry/overview.html A comprehensive overview of Chemistry mailing lists. AMBER is a mail reflector for the molecular mechanics program of the same name. To subscribe, send a request to: amber-request@cgl.ucsf.edu or amber-request@ucsfcgl.bitnet. Messages are sent to amber@cgl.ucsf.edu or amber@ucsfcgl.bitnet. ANALYSIS-L is for discussion of all aspects of analytical science, including techniques, methodologies, etc. To subscribe, send the message: SUBSCRIBE Analysis-L to: maiser@fs4.in.umist.ac.uk. ANCHODD, Medicinal Chemistry/Pharmacy List. Send the message: SUBSCRIBE ANCHODD FIRSTNAME LASTNAME to: listserv@cc.utas.edu.au. APCHEM, Astrophysical Chemistry. The list is sponsored by the Astrophysical Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry to make astronomers aware of what chemists and astronomers aware of the potential contributions of each group in collaborative projects between astronomy and chemistry. Send a subscription request to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk. Archives are maintained at: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk ASCHIN-LIST, Asia Pacific Chemical Information List. Send the message subscribe aschin-list firstname lastname to: listserver@nuscc.nus.sg BioNet Electronic Newsgroup Network. This network was developed to allow easy world-wide communications between biological scientists who use a variety of computer networks. Newsgroup topics can be distributed to sites on Inter net, USENET, BITNET, EARN, NETNORTH, HEANET, and JANET. Unix computers access the newsgroups via software like rn (read news) or nn (nonews). BIOTECH, Biotechnology Discussion List Send the message: SUB BIOTECH Firstname Lastname to: LISTSERV@UMDD.BITNET CancerNet, National Cancer Institute's Mail Server. CancerNet is available on the NIH gopher server: gopher.nih.gov. Select #3 Health and Clinical Information and #1 CancerNet information. Send the message: HELP to: C2L, Cerius2 Users Discussion List The list is intended to support informal discussion of Molecular Simulations Inc.'s Cerius2. To subscribe, send a request to listproc@msi.com. Distribution address is c2-l@msi.com. CCL, Computational Chemistry List. Send the message: send help from chemistry to: OSCPOST@ohstpy or CHEM-COMP, Computational Chemistry. Send the message: join chem-comp firstname lastname to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk. CHEMCORD, the General Chemistry Coordinators' Discussion Group. Send the message: subscribe chemcord firstname lastname to: listserv@umdd OR CHEME-L, the Chemical Engineering List. Send the message: subscribe cheme-l firstname lastname to: listserv@psuvm or CHEMECOL To subscribe, send the message: SUB CHEMECOL firstname lastname to: CHEMED-L, Chemistry Education Discussion List. Send the message: subscribe chemed-l firstname lastname to: listserv@uwf.bitnet. CHEMIND-L, the Chemical Structure Indexing Discussion List. To subscribe, send the message: SUB CHEMIND-L firstname lastname to: CHEMIND-L serves as a forum for discussion of questions relating to indexing and searching chemical structure information. The full range of indexing techniques, from textual codes to graphical structures, will be covered, and there is no restriction on the types of structures to be included. CHEMLAB-L is for people interested in chemistry laboratories (both academic and research), students' experiments (high school, college, and university), class room demonstrations, and shows for the public of chemical processes, chemistry stockroom management, lab safety, and small-scale chemical waste-handling procedures. To subscribe, send the message: SUB CHEMLAB-L firstname lastname to: LISTSERV@Beaver.Bemidji.MSUS.edu CHEM-MOD, Modeling Aspects of Computational Chemistry. Send the message: join chem-mod firstname lastname to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk. CHMINF-L, the Chemical Information Sources Discussion List. gopher://gopher-chem.ucdavis.edu:70/1/1/Email_Archive/ChmInf-L http://atlas.chemistry.uakron.edu:8080/cdept.docs/CHMINF/hmail.html CHMINF-L covers all information sources that can be used to answer questions a chemist might have. Send the message: subscribe chminf-l firstname lastname to: listserv@iubvm OR listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu. A gopher archive of chminf-l is available from the chemistry gopher at the University of California, Davis. In addition a HyperMail archive is maintained by William Daunch at the University of Akron, CICOURSE, Chemical Information Courses on the Internet http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/400home.html CICOURSE is the place to conduct courses in the area of chemical information on the Internet. The first course to be presented is Chemical Information Sources and Services, which emphasizes searching on the STN International system. 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It also provides definition of terms, meanings of acronyms, etc. To acquire the files, FTP to: ucssun1.sdsu.edu /pub/chemras. Use binary and the mget *.* command to transfer all files to an IBM DOS-compatible PC. Also available via WWW at: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/non-local/chemistry where it is called Chemical Resources. Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials (CCIIM). The CCIIM is jointly sponsored by the Special Libraries Association Chemistry Division and the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information. It includes items that have been developed by chemistry or science librarians, chemists, and others for instruction in the use of chemical information sources. Paper copies of most materials in the CCIIM are avail able for the cost of reproduction, but many of the titles are also available as ASCII or other files in the FTP archives of the Indiana University Center for Innovative Computer Applications (gopher.cica.indiana.edu:72 or 129.79.20.27). If using gopher, follow the path CICA Research Anonymous FTP Archives > chem. The complete list of holdings is found in the file: cciimlst.xxx, where xxx represents the date of the latest version. The ASCII files are also accessible on the . Indiana University Chemistry Library Gopher (gopher lib-gopher.lib.indiana.edu) by following the path: Subject Approach to IU Libraries and Internet Resources > Chemistry Library Gopher. ENZYME, The ENZYME Data Bank This is a partial, edited transcription of the Enzyme Commission's classification of enzymes by Amos Bairoch. ftp://expasy.hcuge.ch/databases/enzyme IUBIO Archive for Molecular Biology. This is Don Gilbert's archive at Indiana University: FTP to fly.bio.indiana.edu or 129.79.224.25 /molbio/chemistry/ibmpc or: 129.79.224.25/molbio/chemistry/mac. PACS, Physics and Astronomy Classification System. PACS is the thesaurus used in Physics Abstracts. 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FTP to nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov and login as: nlmpubs for access to items such as NLM Current Bibliographies in Medicine, AIDS Bibliography, NLM Fact Sheets, chapters of the Online Services Refer ence Manual, Toxicology Information Program publications and others in both ASCII and PostScript formats. Periodicals and Conference ProceedingsAmerican Chemical Society Division of Computers in Chemistry (COMP) Newsletter. Accessible via anonymous ftp to kekule.osc.edu (128.146.36.48) and look in pub/chemistry/comp_news directory. Applied Spectroscopy http://esther.la.asu.edu/sas/journal.html Tables of Contents and abstracts for recent issues of Applied Spectroscopy. Keyword searching for specific references is supported. Chemical Physics Preprint Database. http://www.chem.brown.edu/chem-ph.html The Chemical Physics Preprint Database at Brown is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for the international theoretical chemistry community. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan (BCSJ) http://gort.ucsd.edu:80/newjour/c/msg01208.html The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) provides an experimental service of a full text database of its research journal, the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan (BCSJ) during a limited test period. CHEMCONF, the Online Computer Conference. The first on-line computer conference took place June 14-August 20, 1993 on the topic "Applications of Technology in Teaching Chemistry." The proceedings can be accessed by sending the e- mail message: GET CHEMCONF WELCOME to: listserv@umdd or: listserv@umdd.umd.edu. Chemical Engineering Digest; ChE Electronic Newsletter. Available via anonymous ftp to: cc.curtin.edu.au or 134.7.70.1 Login with Name: anonymous and Password: chemeng To subscribe, send a request to Dr. Martyn S. Ray: TRAYM@CC.CURTIN.EDU.AU Chemical Educator A journal devoted to Chemical Education. 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Proceedings are available at: http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/incinc/homepage.html Journal of Biological Chemistry. http://www-jbc.stanford.edu/jbc/ The Internet version of JBC is a co-publishing venture of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the HighWire Press, the electronic imprint of the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources. JCPExpress JCP Express is provided by the American Institute of Physics. Manuscripts submitted by authors for distribution by JCP Express have been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics and will be available prior to publication only. They may be copied electronically and printed for individual use only preprints of manuscripts between acceptance and publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Format is PostScript and the original Tex, WordPerfect, or Microsoft Word format if available. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. http://wucmd.wustl.edu/jcamd/jcamd.html ">http://wucmd.wustl.edu/jcamd/jcamd.html ESCOM Science Publishers in collaboration with the Center for Molecular Design presents an experimental electronic version of the Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. Access to full text searchable files will be made available to subscribers of the printed journal. Journal of Cyber Chemistry - a new Internet Journal http://www.u-net.com/ukchem/cybrchem/ Scope: Everything and anything that relates to the Internet and Chemistry. Papers should be about the Internet and its use in Chemistry or be of material covering Chemistry research in its widest sense that can take specific advantages of the possibilities the Internet offers. Journal of Molecular Modeling http://derioc1.organik.uni-erlangen.de/info/JMOLMOD/jmolinfo.html This resource requires the payment of a subscription fee. Articles in the journal will be available as PostScript, common wordprocessor and Adobe Acrobat PDF files on FTP servers. Access will be via either FTP or gopher. At the end of each year, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg will issue a bound full colour hardcopy version containing all papers published in the past twelve months, as well as a CD-ROM version. For a subscription form, send an e-mail message to: jmolmod@organik.uni-erlangen.de. Journal of Nitride Semiconductor Research A new Web-based journal, sponsored by The Materials Research Society, covering the emerging field of nitride semiconductors. It includes a selective reference database, calendar, preprints, and peer-reviewed articles. Mendeleev Chemistry Journal (Zhurnal Ross. Khim. Ob-va im D.I.Mendeleeva) http://turpion.ioc.ac.ru/mc/mc.html Abstracts and Table of Contents of Mendeleev, published by the Russian Chemical Society. Molecular Diversity A journal dedicated to the field of molecular diversity generation and utilization. Published by ESCOM, the journal is available both in hard copy version and in an electronic version via Internet. Network Science "The Web Journal of Science and Computers," NetSci features issues devoted to Topical subjects and contains product and placement announcements. New Scientist Planet Science New Scientist Planet Science site provides news, features, reviews and comment drawn weekly from the pages of New Scientist magazine. Registration required for access. Protein Science An Internet version of the journal Protein Science is to be made available by subscription. At present, you may obtain kinemages of the illustrations in the journal. or gopher ftp.uci.edu:1071 or ftp ftp.uci.edu and log on as anonymous. Change directory to: protein. La Recherche - Paris, France http://www.larecherche.fr:80/index.html The premier magazine of scientific and technical information in France. Science http://www.aaas.org/science/science.html Selected full-text excerpts from Science the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Scientist http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/ The Scientist is "The Newspaper for the Life Sciences Professional." Current and back issues are available also by (gopher (URL: gopher://ds.internic.net/11/pub/the-scientist). THEOCHEM http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/theochem THEOCHEM serves the fields of theory and computational chemistry, including molecular modelling. An alerting service is available by e-mail subscription. To subscribe send a message to the following e-mail address: theochem-e@elsevier. NL with the following subject line: subscribe theochem-c. Trends in Analytical Chemistry (TrAC) Internet Column http://www.elsevier.nl:80/section/chemical/trac/menu.html TrAC has initiated a regular column on the Internet. These columns are designed to highlight what is available on the Internet, as well as to provide information on Internet access. Periodicals and other Documents-Current AwarenessAnnual Reviews Index: Jan 1994 -June 1996 http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/annRev.html Access to the entire index of the volumes published by The Annual Reviews Inc. Biochemistry Journals: Tables of Contents. gopher to gopher.genethon.fr and follow the path Biblio > Journaux. Coverage of some titles is not up to date, but Journal of Biological Chemistry and others may be. BIOSIS WWW Server Among other information found at the Web site of the publisher of Biological Abstracts are complete profile development forms for B-I-T-S, BIOSIS' customized literature search service. Bucky News Service (Buckminster Fullerene mailer). Bucky is a weekly list of the latest titles on C-60 and related fullerenes, fullerites, and molecular/solid state derivatives. Each week the latest 50 titles is electronically mailed to sub scribers. Send the message: SUBSCRIBE to: bucky@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu. To get more information, send the keyword INTRO to the same address. The service is maintained by Dr. Jack Fischer's group at the University of Pennsylvania. fischer@lrsm.upenn.edu ContentsAlert This is OCLC's alerting service covering over 10,000 journals. Information can be found in the OCLC WWW server: Fullerene Alert (Elsevier) Once a month subscribers receive an ASCII file with information on fullerene papers from various Elsevier journals. There is a charge for the version with abstracts, but without abstracts, it is free. The address is: rfc822: c-alert.fullerene@elsevier.nl x.400: C=nl; A=400net; P=surf; O=elsevier; S=fullerene; G=c-alert. Contact: Margreet Runge: c-alert.fullerene@elsevier.nl, for details. Internet Patent News Service. You may sign up for a weekly mailing list of US patents in the Mechanical, Chemical, and Electrical categories. Requests to subscribe should include the desired file format (ASCII or UUZIP) and be sent to: patents-request@world.std.com For further information, contact Gregory Aharonian at: patents@world.std.com with the message: help or call 617-489-3727. REVEAL UnCover offers a fee-based service called "REVEAL" for delivery of tables of contents via e-mail. Telnet to database.carl.org and go into the UnCover database. Set up a profile by doing a "browse by title" search for the journal(s) you want, call up the record(s), and type REVEAL at the end of the listing. Separation electronic alerting service (Elsevier) Separation provides the complete tables of contents of forthcoming issues of the Journal of Chromatography A and the Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Applications up to five weeks prior to publication in a journal issue. This new, monthly service is distributed electronically in formatted ASCII. To subscribe to "Separation", send an e-mail message to : k.bij@elsevier.nl. The subject line of your message should read: subscribe separation-c. In the body of the text - provide your full address and fields of interest. Software-Including Users GroupsAMBER http://www.amber.ucsf.edu/amber/amber.html AMBER (Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement): Web site for the molecular mechanics program suite. The AMBER mail reflector provides a forum for users. To subscribe, send a request to: amber-request@cgl.ucsf.edu. Messages are sent to amber@cgl.ucsf.edu. AMSOL http://pollux.chem.umn.edu/~amsol/ Home site for the AMSOL program that calculates the properties of organic molecules in solution. AMSOL is a semi-empirical quantum chemistry program that includes the MINDO/3, MNDO, AM1 and PM3 Hamiltonians, the CM1A and CM1P charge models for calculating partial atomic charges, the SM1 - SM3.1 solvation models for calculating free energies of solvation in water, and the SM4 solvation model for calculating free energies of solvation in alkanes. Geometry optimization is possible in both the gas phase and solution. BBN Software Products Corporation Developer of applications that transform large volumes of data into useful information. BBN's WWW site provides technical support, user discussion forums, product information and an ftp archive. CambridgeSoft Corporation, Inc. Press releases and information about CS's services are found here. Expect to see tech notes, selections from their newsletter, and other things. This site also contains a searchable ChemFinder small-molecule database, which features structures and links to available MSDS sheets. C2-L, Cerius2 Users List. The list is intended to support informal discussion of Molecular Simulations Inc.'s Cerius2. To subscribe, send a request to listproc@msi.com. Distribution address is c2-l@msi.com. CHARMM Users Group. Send a request to join to: charmm-bbs-request@emperor.harvard.edu. Chemical Concepts Chemical Concepts, a member of the VCH Publishing Group, is the developer of software and databases for Chemistry and Spectroscopy. Products include SpecInfo and MassLib. ChemInnovation Software Producer of Chemistry 4-D Draw -- a structure drawing program that understands IUPAC nomenclature. Chemistry Software on the Net http://nmr400a.mols.susx.ac.uk/~steven/ A WWW page dedicated to chemistry software available via the Internet. Software lists are provided for MS DOS/Windows/NT, Macintosh, and Unix/Linux. ChemKey Search® Database A synthetic method database developed by Albert Padwa and marketed by Heterodata, Inc. Containing over 45,000 references annual updates are available. Daylight Chemical Information Systems, Inc. Develops software tools (ToolKits) for building of chemical information systems as well as chemical applications. DIBUG, Discover, Insight, Biosym Users' Group Send a request to join to: dibug-request@comp.bioz.unibas.ch. eduSoft, LC Developer of Educational and Research software, including HINT (Hydropathic INTeractions): A molecular modelling program for understanding and visualizing hydrophobic interactions in the biological environment. GAMESS - The General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System. http://www.msg.ameslab.gov/GAMESS/GAMESS.html The General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System is a general ab initio quantum chemistry package. This program is maintained by the members of the Gordon research group at Iowa State University. Ga-molecule, Genetic Algorithms Users Group. Send a request to: ga-molecule-request@tammy.harvard.edu. GraphPad Software, Inc. GraphPad Prism graphs data, Instat analyzes data, and Intend is listed as a "Laboratory Bartender." Hypercube, Inc. Developers of the HyperChem molecular modelling software. Info-LabVIEW discussion list An e-mail list focused on the application of National Instruments LabVIEW data acquisition and analysis products. To subscribe, send a request to: info-labview@pica.army.mil. Information Retrieval in Chemistry. To access the information, FTP to: leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr (143.233.2.1) at /pub/chemistry. Note that a mirror of this source is at: ftp-chem.ucdavis.edu (128.120.7.19) at /go_chem/Index/ChemSites_ac/leon.nrcps.ariadne- t.gr. One can also gopher to gopher-chem.ucdavis.edu and follow the path Index/ChemSites_ac/leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr (or search for "leon"). WWW/Mosaic to: www-chem.ucdavis.edu and select the entry "Information Retrieval in Chemistry (mirror)." Interactive Simulations, Inc. Interactive Simulations solves critical scientific problems for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, primarily through the development of innovative software for molecular modelling, simulation, and drug design. Internet Resources for Mathematics and Science Education. Version 1.2, October 19, 1993, Compiled by T. C. O'Haver. This is a very good compilation of resources in all areas of math and science education. FTP to inform.umd.edu and get the file math-science-edu in the directory: inforM/Computing_Resources/NetInfo/ReadingRoom/InternetResources MicroMath Scientific Software, Inc. Micromath develops nonlinear curve fitting software for Scientists (chemists, physicists, mathematicians, etc.) and engineers. List of Molecular Science Applications for Digital Platforms. Use anonymous FTP to connect to: gatekeeper.dec.com or 16.1.0.2 and change to: pub/DEC/DECNEWS. Get news0409.txt. Macintosh Chemistry Tutorials. FTP to archive.umich.edu and go to /mac/misc/chemistry. MacSciTech Software Archives - Macintosh science software. ftp://ftp.ari.net/pub/MacSciTech MMODINFO, MacroModel Users Group. Send the message SUBSCRIBE MMODINFO to: mmodinfo-request@uoft02.utoledo.edu. Archives of the MMODINFO list are available via anonymous ftp at: ftp.utoledo.edu (131.183.1.1) [.MMOD] for mail; [.CHEMISTRY] for others. (NB: This is a VAX VMS machine.) MOPAC 93 Network Forum. MOPAC 93 is distributed through QCPE. Fujitsu has set up a MOPAC 93 Network Forum to provide a communications link with those who have access to Internet. This service is not free. It is scheduled to begin February 1, 1994. Contact Ms. Miyoko Murakami (kumikoi@fsba.com) National Instruments ftp://ftp.pica.army.mil/pub/labview/ This is the support site for the LabVIEW and LabWIndows data collection and analysis products. User contributed, LabVIEW-related software and digests for Info-LabVIEW mail server are archived at the Info-LabVIEW site. PMD, Parallel Molecular Dynamics Program To subscribe, send a message to: pmd-request@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu PRODE http://www.prode.com/prode.html Developer of software for Chemical Engineering applications. QCPE Catalog (Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange) telnet qcpe6.chem.indiana.edu (129.79.74.206) and login as: anonymous with password: guest QCPE has long been known as a site for loc-cost distribution of quantum mechanical, molecular modelling, and other types of software. The entire holdings of QCPE, over 800 pieces of soft ware, can be searched using keywords contained in the titles of programs in the database. Search statements must be submitted as capital letters. Enter the command "Catsrch" in order to proceed with a search once logged in to QCPE. QCPE's Internet address is: qcpe@ucs.indiana.edu. Schrödinger, Inc. Developer of software to solve electronic structure problems. Silicon Graphics Chemistry and Biological Science Home Page Industry news; Hardware, software, and applications information for chemistry; Hyperlinks to chemistry indexes, publications, chemical societies, and software partners. SoftShell International, Ltd. Technical documentation and support for software products, including ChemWindow and Chemintosh. SVJPS, Springer Journals Preview Service, and SVSERV. Tables of contents, titles (article heads), and summaries (abstracts) of papers from 90 Springer journals are available 3 to 6 weeks before the appearance of the printed version. There is an annual fee for the abstract information, but the other data can be had at no cost. Send the message: help to: svjps@vax.ntp.springer.de or point your gopher at: trick.ntp.springer.de (192.129.24.12). Available via WWW, the server also has demonstrations of Springer's software and CD-ROM products, TeX macro packages, and indexes of various book series. Sybyl Users Group. Send a request to join to: sybylreq@quant.chem.rpi.edu. Wavefunction, Inc. Spartan, a computational chemistry software package, is featured at this site. Wavemetrics Inc. Web home for the Igor and Igor Pro graphics and analysis software for the Macintosh. X-PLOR http://xplor.csb.yale.edu/xplor-info/xplor-info.html X-PLOR, a program system for computational structural biology, is marketed by Molecular Simulations Inc. Miscellaneous World Wide Web ResourcesAmerican Chemical Society Web Server The American Chemical Society was founded in 1876 and is a not-for-profit organization. It is the world's largest scientific society and has a membership of over 151,000 chemists and chemical engineers. The American Chemical Society was chartered by a 1937 Act of the U.S. Congress. The Society is recognized as a world leader in fostering scientific education and research, and promoting public understanding of science. Division of Analytical Chemistry http://nexus.chemistry.duq.edu/analytical/analytical.html ACS Division of Chemical Education http://tigerched.clemson.edu/CHED/chedinfo.html Division of Chemical Information http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~atbrooks/CINF/cinfhome.html Division of Computers in Chemistry http://hackberry.chem.niu.edu/COMP/ Division of Fuel Chemistry http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/ Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry http://www.as.ua.edu:80/~rdrogers/acsiec/ Division of Inorganic Chemistry http://infoeagle.bc.edu/chemistry/Inorganic/Inorganic.html Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology http://www.che.uc.edu/~stout/nucl.html Division of Organic Chemistry http://www.organic.emory.edu:80/acsorg/index.html Division of Physical Chemistry http://hackberry.chem.niu.edu/PHYS/ Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc. http://www.chem.umr.edu:80/~poly/ American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, pronounced "Triple-A-S") is a non-profit professional society dedicated to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence across all disciplines, and to the public's understanding of science and technology. AAAS is among the oldest societies in America, having been founded in Philadelphia in 1848. Many of today's most prestigious and influential scientific societies have their historical origins in AAAS. Beilstein Information Systems Product information, press releases as well as Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are featured at this site. BioMedNet http://www.cursci.co.uk/BioMedNet/biomed.html An Internet club for researchers and clinicians in biology and medicine. Services include: a full-text library of biomedical publications and databases. (Membership subscription required). Biotechnology Information Center of the National Agriculture Library (NAL-USDA). This server provides a range of biotechnology resources, selected full-text patents and legislative and regulatory information. Brookhaven Protein Data Bank A major repository of 3-D structural information on biological macromolecules. This site, contains atomic co-ordinate entries, images, the PDB newsletters as well as selected software. Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. http://www.cam.ac.uk:80/CambUniv/ILRes/PhysSci/Crystall.html There are brief descriptions and basic search guides for QUEST, VISTA, PLUTO, and GSTAT, as well as information on how to obtain the Cambridge Structural Database. ChemDex. http://www2.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemdex Sheffield's ChemDex provides an extensive collection of links to other chemistry WWW sites and resources. The Chemical Heritage Foundation. The Chemical Heritage Foundation provides a comprehensive list of resources on the history of chemistry available through World Wide Web, as well as access to CHF's collections. CHF Oral Histories On-line: Abstracts and biographical information from each transcript in our oral history collection, complete with images of the interviewees. Chemistry Index at Free University Berlin http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/index.html This is an eclectic collection of resources, many of them produced at FU Berlin. Included are files on Fundamental Physical Constants, Acronyms (with emphasis on chemistry and spectroscopy), and Amino Acids (a file by name with the abbreviations and linear structural formulas). Computer Center of the Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki National Research Institute, Japan. Corrosion & Protection Centre at UMIST, UK This contains pointers to information relevant to corrosion, especially chemistry and materials sources. The Electrochemical Society, Inc. Society information is featured including Tables of Content for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. EnviroWeb Billed as the world's largest environmental information archive on-line, the EnviroWeb is a clearinghouse project of The Enviro Link Network. It features The Virtual Environmental Library, The Internet Environmental Resource Directory, and an EnviroProducts Directory. The European Patent Office (EPO). The EPO grants patents on behalf of its seventeen member states. The EPO's Internet services contains information on the patent granting procedure at the EPO and on the products and activities of EPIDOS. Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe FIZ is a non-profit organization set up to provide information and information services for academic and industrial research & development, as well as for business and administration. In its function as European STN Service Center, FIZ Karlsruhe offers access to more than 190 electronic databases in almost all fields of science and technology, including patents. The Federal Web Locator http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html With over 600 links to federal web sites, the Federal Web Locator provides the most comprehensive and easy access to information about the federal government. Fisher Scientific Chemical Catalog The catalog features searches by chemical name, catalog number or keyword for over 2400 chemicals. It also includes MSDSs. Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Sintered Materials, Dresden, Germany. http://www.ikts.fhg.de/ikts.engl.html http://www.ikts.fhg.de (German version) There are lots of documents containing data and publications in the area of ceramics and materials research. Information Retrieval in Chemistry. To access the information, FTP to: leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr (143.233.2.1) at /pub/chemistry. Note that a mirror of this source is at: ftp-chem.ucdavis.edu (128.120.7.19) at /go_chem/Index/ChemSites_ac/leon.nrcps.ariadne- t.gr. One can also gopher to gopher-hem.ucdavis.edu and follow the path Index/ChemSites_ac/leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr (or search for "leon"). WW/Mosaic to: www-chem.ucdavis.edu and select the entry "Information Retrieval in Chemistry (mirror)." The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) ISI is a database publishing company that produces a table-of-contents service (Current Contents), retrospective citation indexes ( Science Citation Index, and a document delivery service (The Genuine Article® Document Delivery). Internet Directory of Biotechnology Resources http://biotech.chem.indiana.edu The purpose of this directory is to assist in bringing biotechnology resources on the Internet into the class room so they can be used in a problem-solving environment. Over 160 sources are included and can be found with a keyword search. Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Polymer Science and Technology a consortium of Leeds, Bradford, and Dunham Universities covering polymer chemistry, physics, and engineering. National Academy of Sciences, USA The Nobel Foundation This website provides Nobel Prize announcements and has a searchable data base listing previous Nobel Laureates. ORBIT's WWW Server Oxford Centre for Molecular Science Web Server The North American Catalysis Society "The North American Catalysis Society was founded in 1956 to promote and encourage the growth and development of the science of catalysis and those scientific disciplines ancillary thereto." Society newsletters, awards and meeting information is available at this site. Polymer Internet Resources List at Phoenix Polymers Inc. A wide range of polymer links are presented from academic as well as corporate and government sites. Protein Crystallographers Using Photon Factory, Japan This has an address of protein crystallographers in Japan as well as links to other crystallographic servers. Questel WWW Server The Royal Society of Chemistry The RSC server provides access to the RSC Library Online Public Access Catalogue and Publications Catalogue, educational resources plus listing contents and forthcoming articles in society journals. Society for Applied Spectroscopy The SAS home page has information on membership and titles and abstracts for papers in Applied Spectroscopy, plus related meetings /events/short courses. It also includes "Other Spectroscopy Related Sites." SPINDEX, Scientific Products Information Network. SPINDEX is a resource for researchers in molecular biology, cell biology, and immunology. Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Department of Chemistry Web Server. The server provides access to on-line scientific papers, talks, conferences, Global Instructional Chemistry, Chemical MIME discussions, Hyperactive Molecules, research information in organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry. University of Texas Chemistry Library WWW Server http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/Chem/first/mallet.html U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This site contains a selection of on-line publications, including two PTO pamphlets containing general information about Patents and Trademarks. WebElements http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/Table/index.html http://chemserv.bc.edu/web-elements/web-elements-home.html http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/chem/chemistry-home.html This includes the Periodic Table database, an Isotope Pattern Calculator, and an Element percentage calculator. "The World, Guide to Chemistry" World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biotechnology http://golgi.harvard.edu/biopages.html World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Chemical Engineering http://www.che.ufl.edu/WWW-CHE/outline.html World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Chemistry http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Crystallography http://lyapunov.chemie.hu-berlin.de/Links/crystal_index.html Science: Chemistry list at Yahoo - A Guide to WWW http://www.yahoo.com/yahoo/Science/Chemistry/ Chemical Weapons and Chemical Warfare. Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Project http://www.stimson.org/pub/stimson/cwc/ The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is a multilateral treaty of unprecedented scope and complexity that will prohibit the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, retention, and use of chemical weapons. In conjunction with the CWC's signing ceremonies in January 1993, the Stimson Center launched a project, directed by Amy E. Smithson, to monitor domestic and international preparations for implementing the treaty and to serve as an information clearinghouse. Union for chemical safety (Russia) http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/health/proj/proj0114.html Union for Chemical Safety (UCS) was organized at the first meeting on 15 October, 1993. UCS is an interregional public non-governmental organization of Russia. Aimed at exclusion of the most wide-spread highly toxic anthropogenic substances - toxic chemicals (chemical weapons), dioxins and dioxin-like compounds, liquid rocket fuels etc. The fundamental goals of UCS: * information. UCS members have organized the publication of a series of articles in central newspapers and mass-media of Russia, in local press of towns. Topics: ecologically safe disposal of chemical weapons etc. * lobbying in governmental bodies. * Risk Assessment, ecological and medical monitoring. * International Co-operation. UCS co-operates with ecological organizations and individuals from different countries. UCS had prepared the project "The Burned Towns Of The Russia". TABLE OF CONTENTS | PART I | PART II | ANNEX I | ANNEX II | ANNEX III | COMMENTS | BACK TO UNEP |