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Dragonfly
Fall 2004 -- Volume 35, Number 4 |
Have you tried TOXMAP yet? TOXMAP is an interactive web site developed by NLM's Specialized Information Service (SIS) that shows the amount and location of reported toxic chemicals released into the environment on maps of the United States.
From the NLM-Tox-Enviro-Health-L Announcement List:
TOXMAP (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov) users can now create customized maps from their own web sites by incorporating a simple web link. Once on the TOXMAP site, users can zoom in and out, pan the map, and get more information about the facilities and chemicals represented.
Full instructions are provided in the TOXMAP FAQ entitled "How can I link my site to TOXMAP?" (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/help/faq.jsp#39). Examples are also included. TOXMAP allows users to visually explore information about releases of toxic chemicals by industrial facilities around the United States as reported annually to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, http://www.epa.gov/tri/ It also integrates the map display with access to relevant bibliographic references and other data on these chemicals, providing a map-based portal to these resources.
Could you develop just such a map for the community your hospital serves and put it on your library's Web site? Would your hospital PR people be interested in having this on the hospital's Web site and you could do an afternoon or evening demonstration to show community participants how to find environmental health information on the Web? Would the science teachers in your community's schools be interested in this, and other, environmental health information resources? You could teach them!
Try TOXMAP and all the other environmental and toxicological resources from SIS. Then spread the word.
December 13, 2004
This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.
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