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This page is dedicated to resources for you to find more information. Databases covering environmental health issues are listed but depending on the aspect of this issue you are interested in, other database might prove valuable as well. Search our full list of databases for more.
Tips on Searching google are included below.
Subscribe to Environmental Health News, a site that compiles literature on relevant topics
Newsletters and sites.
- Inside PFAS PolicyPart of our InsideEPA collection.
Northeastern Library Databases
- GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowDrawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE is an informative resource containing nearly 300,000 records, with full text for selected titles, and searchable cited references with library links for more than 200 additional titles
- PubMed (NU customized) This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive source of journal literature in the life sciences and biomedicine from the National Library of Medicine. Includes selected full text from PubMed Central, and NCBI Bookshelf. PubMed is a free web resource, however this version contains links to Northeastern-subscribed journals that require a login.
- Policy Commons This link opens in a new windowReports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of more than 21,000 IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, and research centers.
- Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new windowSearch federal and state court cases, statutes and codes as well as European Union laws and regulations. Secondary sources include the American Law Reports and the American Jurisprudence encyclopedia, law reviews, journals, and newspapers.
- Tutorials: Find cases and articles in Westlaw (video) or see a PDF version
- In Westlaw, search in Cases for pfas, per-or-poly-flurointaed alkyl substances
Policy-find resources
Googling Government Resources
or a more departmental search: pfas in drinking water site:.epa.gov
Public Policy Papers
Policy Commons for gray literature and an international directory of the organizations that produce the papers
Environmental Health News
Environmental Health News, https://www.ehn.org/ is a source that monitors and compiles environmental health news.
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