tailieunhanh - Environmental Risk Assessment Reports - Chapter 23

Thư viện nghiên cứu là một Of The yếu tố quan trọng nhất trong sự phát triển của một thành công đánh giá rủi ro. Thư viện hiện đại nghiên cứu môi trường phần tạp chí, tham khảo sách, tài liệu của chính phủ, và CD-ROM (Chứa quan trọng hướng dẫn các văn bản, pháp luật, và cơ sở dữ liệu). Theys cho phép truy cập đến cư trú hoặc on-line công cộng và thương mại kỹ thuật cơ sở dữ liệu, và nắm giữ thư viện trên toàn quốc. Các tài liệu được không ngay lập tức nghiên cứu kệ thư viện thường có. | CHAPTER 23 Scientific Library Research for Risk Assessment Kathy Malec and David A. Belluck CONTENTS I. II. Library A. Electronic B. Surfing the Net for Risk Assessment C. Hard III. Selected Environmental Information IV. I. INTRODUCTION Library research is one of the most important factors in the development of a successful risk assessment. Modern environmental research libraries contain journals reference books government documents and CD-ROMs containing important guidance documents laws and databases . They allow access to resident or on-line public and commercial technical databases and library holdings around the nation. Documents not immediately available on research library shelves can usually be quickly obtained via interlibrary loan requests. Library staff are indispensable guides through the sometimes bewildering array of hard copy and electronic media resources. They understand the strengths of the different resources that are integral to their mission. For example public libraries especially larger libraries contain basic reference works directories and indexes to scientific literature. A number are also depositories for a variety of federal government documents. University college libraries contain a more substantial amount of 447 2001 by CRC Press LLC 448 A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT REPORTS detailed chemical environmental and legal information because they support teaching programs and research. Federal state and local government agencies support numerous technical libraries. Many federal agencies and their field components maintain libraries. For example EPA has libraries in Washington . in many of its regional offices and in various EPA laboratories around the country. This type of arrangement is mirrored by other federal agencies. In addition small but important library collections may be held in hard copy microfiche or electronic form by