Tuesday, 19 February 2008

new nanoparticle environmental health



New nanoparticle environmental health and safety database available

Via The Engineer 8/23/05.

From Rice and supported in part by NSF, this database collects

scientific articles researching environmental health and safety

aspects of nanoparticles (read press release). From a librarian point

of view, it leaves a little to be desired. In fact, it might be quite

difficult to find the full text of the article based on the citation

given. A guide to the abbreviations use for journals might be helpful

(hmm, maybe they're using the pubmed ones?). I'd love to see the DOI

and a link to the pubmed record (it does list PMID, though, so you can

find the article that way if you recognize the number). For the

articles on environmental concerns, there's no PMID... Hmm. Don't see

a list of journals referenced or a methodology of how articles are

identified.

Anyway, looks like a good first step and will no doubt be useful to


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