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Occupational Health and Safety, Therapy |
Online Publications:
Journals, Periodicals, Online Books, Ebooks (all mostly free) |
Online Reviews of Books
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Ophthalmology (see Eyes) |
Ozone (see also Acid Rain, Air Pollution (outdoor) |


Occupational Health and Safety, Therapy

American Journal of Occupational Therapy
URL: http://www.aota.org/ajot/index.asp
Journal: Online access includes table of contents and search capabilities. Collect the citation and see the Reference Librarian to access the Print versions available in the library. The NEIT Library owns print (full text) 1961 > present. [10/06]
Ergo Web Inc.
URL: http://www.ergoweb.com
Commercial company, Ergo Web - a spinoff from the University of Utah, offers a glossary, case studies, question forum, and reference materials.
[08/08]
Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)
URL: http://www.osha.gov/
Full-text searchable site with information on employer and employee rights, responsibilities, guidelines, and safety information, as well as standards and fact sheets. Dept. of Labor. [08/08]
OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health
URL: http://www.aotf.org/html/otjr.html
Journal: Online access includes table of contents and search capabilities. [02/06]
OT Practice Rehab Management
URL: http://www.rehabpub.com
Journal: Online accessincludes table of contents, search capabilities, and full text articles. [02/06]
Rehabilitation
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/rehabilitation.html
Overview of the entire field of rehabilitative medicine including Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Recreational Therapy, Art Therapy and other methods from MedlinePlus. [09/06]


Online Publications (mostly free)

Journals, Periodicals: Directories, general listings of sources

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
URL: http://www.doaj.org/
Articles from about 2500 scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages.
[10/06]
e-journals.org
URL: http://www.e-journals.org/
Neatly organized portal listing links to specific subject categories.
[10/06]
Emory Law Library Electronic Reference Desk
URL: http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/index.php?id=2585
Online Law Journals – free reference.
[04/07]
Fetch E-Journal Database
URL: http://www.manhattan.edu/library/fetch/
From the Manhattan College Library: "The Free E-Journals List contains over 11,000 journals that have all or part of their text available free over the internet."
[10/06]
Findarticles.com
URL: http://findarticles.com
Find Articles from BNET Research contains over 10 million articles available FREE or $. Good source for the sophisticated researcher. From CNET Networks. [12/07]
FreeMedicalJournals.com
URL: http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
Free access to online medical journals, some with full text. [10/06]
HighWire: Free Online Full-text Articles
URL: http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
"HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth!" From Stanford University. [10/06]
Internet Public Library – Online Serials
URL: http://www.ipl.org/div/serials/
Links to online periodicals by subject. For the advanced searcher. [10/06]
List of journals available free online
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journals_available_free_online
Variety of topics. [12/08]
NewJour
URL: http://library.georgetown.edu/newjour/
"This is the archive for , the Internet list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet." [12/07]
News and Periodical Resources on the Web
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/lists.html
Listing of sources for newspapers and journals available via the Internet. Library of Congress. [10/06]
Penton Media: Online Business Information and News for Industry Communities
URL: http://www.industryclick.com/index.asp
Links to specific trade magazinesa and articles. [12/07]
PubMed Central
URL: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
A free archive of life science journals. [12/07]
Warwick Public Library: Magazine Indexes
URL: http://wpl.lib.ri.us/mag.htm
Listing of databases that include magazines, journals. Requires a valid Ocean State Libraries card ID # available FREE from your local RI public library. [12/07]
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Social Sciences Journals
URL: http://www.dialogical.net/socialsciences/journals.html
Directory of links to online social science journals from around the world. Also links to WWW e-journals. [12/07]

Journals, Periodicals: Assorted publications by Specific topic

AUTO
Auto Magazines and Industry Publication Web Sites

URL: http://www.autoconsulting.com/automags.htm
Comprehensive links directory of automotive industry publications.
[05/06]
Car Stuff: Car Magazines and Car Publications
URL: http://www.car-stuff.com/carlinks/pub.htm
Alphabetical listing to all kinds of car-related publications.
[05/06]

Education
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Library

URL: http://www.servicelearning.org/library/journals/
Listing of online availability of journals devoted to service. Some have free full-text available online. [11/08]]

Marine, Naval
Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
URL: http://ejname.webs.com/
"a forum for the publication of peer-reviewed original research results in the field of Naval Architecture, Marine, Offshore & Ocean Engineering and related subjects."
[12/08]
International Journal of Naval History
URL: http://www.ijnhonline.org/volume3_number2-3_AugDec04/news_newsletterarchivepage_mills_augdec04.htm
Archives from 1997 of the History of Oceanography.
[12/08]

Medical
FreeMedicalJournals.com
URL: http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
Free access to online medical journals, some with full text. [10/06]
PubMed Central
URL: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
A free archive of life science journals. [12/07]

Journals, Periodicals: by name

The Atlantic
URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/
"... serve[s] as The Atlantic Monthly's home on the Internet, presenting the magazine's digital edition and continually building a useful online archive; [and] to serve as the home of Atlantic Unbound, an online journal that extends the magazine's coverage of books, literature, and culture." [10/06]
Cursor
URL: http://www.cursor.org/
Progressive news magazine. [10/06]
NCES Electronic Catalog
URL: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
Gateway to numerous journals and other educations publications. Search the best education resource, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center.) Site is IES, Institute of Education Sciences: National Center for Education Statistics. [10/06]
NFPA Journal
URL: http://www.nfpa.org/journalHome.asp?categoryID=187&src=NFPAJournal
Full-text articles relating to fires, from NFPA,
the National Fire Protection Association. Archives back to September, 2001. [10/06]

PC Magazine: The Independent Guide to Technology
URL: http://www.pcmag.com/
Includes Tech Encyclopedia. [12/07]
Salon.com
URL: http://www.salon.com/index.html
Online periodical of news, opinion, the arts, politics, science, and technology. [12/07]
Tomorrow's Technician: Building the Future for Automotive Service
URL: http://www.tomorrowstechnician.com
Back issues - from Fe., 2004, and current articles of Tomorrow's Technician. Automotive Glossary of Aftermarket Terms.
[05/06]
TomPaine.common sense: A Public Interest Journal
URL: http://www.tompaine.com/
Online journal of opinions and debate on controversial issues. A project of the Institute for America's Future. [12/07]


Online Publications: Books: digital books, ebooks, electronic books
Definition:
A digital version of a traditional print book designed to be read on a personal computer or an e-book reader (a software application for use on a standard-sized computer or a book-sized computer used solely as a reading device).
[ODLIS — Online Dictionary forLibrary and Information Science by Joan M. Reitz//http://lu.com/odlis/index.cfm// Accessed: 12.07]

Some can be read online, others are for hand-held devices.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
URL: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Public domain works of 14,000+ American, English literature and Western philosophy. Creator: Eric Lease Morgan, since 1994. [12/07]
Bartelby.com: Great Books Online
URL: http://www.bartleby.com
An internet provider of free books: reference, fiction, poetry. Large database of quotations. Began by Steven H. van Leeuwen in January, 1993. [12/07]
ClassicReader
URL: http://www.classicreader.com
Fiction, non-fiction, Shakespeare, classical, short-stories. [12/07]
EText Center
URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
Over 2100 ebooks available, full text searchable, viewable in HTML format. For the Microsoft Reader or Palm. University of Virginia Library. [12/07]
EServer.org: Accessible Writing
URL: http://eserver.org/
Hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge. Based at Iowa State University. [12/07]
FictionWise eBooks
URL: http://www.fictionwise.com/home.html
Free and low-cost e-books in a variety of formats. [12/07]
Franklin Free eBook Library
URL: http://www.franklin.com/freelibrary/
Thousands of freet titles for EBookman. [12/07]
Free e-Books.net
URL: http://www.free-ebooks.net/
Downloadable books in PDF format. [12/07]
Internet Public Library
URL: http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/
An extensive listing of sites for books available online. [12/07]
MANYBOOKS.NET
URL: http://www.manybooks.net/
Free e-books. Personal site maintained by Matthew McClintock. Books available in numerous formats, most from the Gutenberg Project. [10/06]
MemoWare
URL: http://www.memoware.com/
"Thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.)" free -- for the PDA. [10/06]
Munseys
URL: http://www.blackmask.com
Thousands of books, since 1998. Currently Disruptive Publishing. [12/07]
The National Academies Press
URL: http://www.nap.edu
Thousands of online books, free and for sale. Accessed by topic and subtopics. By the National Academies, “advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, & Medicine.” [11/07]
National Center for Biotechnology Information Bookshelf
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books
Small, keyword searchable collection of medical e-books. From the National Institute of Health. [NIH] [12/07]
The Online Books Page
URL: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Created in 1993, frequent updates, lists over 25,000 titles. Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library, John Mark Ockerbloom. [0808]

Page by Page Books
URL: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
Hundreds of free online classical books, browsable by title or author. [12/07]
Project Gutenberg
URL: http://www.gutenberg.org
"Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971." [10/06]
PSU's Electronic Classics Site
URL: http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm
PDF files of classical English works of literature and publications of PSU. Created in 1997, Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis. [11/07]
University of Adelaide Library (Australia):ebooks @ Adelaide
URL: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/
Alphabetical, chronological, theme searches for ebooks in the collection. Includes a listing of e-texts from other sources. [08/08]

Online Reviews of Books

The Reader's Robot: A Reader's Advisory Service
URL: http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/rr.html
Searchable database of book reviews listed by subject. [12/07]
SparkNotes
URL: http://www.sparknotes.com/
Free online study guides. [12/07]


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Ozone

Ozone Crisis
URL: http://archive.greenpeace.org/ozone/
Information, statistics, and links about ozone depletion and climate changes.
Greenpeace. [02/06]
Ozone Depletion
URL: http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/index.html
A simplified explanation of the ozone depletion problem, with links to laws and regulations and related topics. The Science of Ozone Depletion. Includes From EPA, Environmental Protection Agency. [02/06]
Reports to the Nation on Our Changing Planet: Our Ozone Shield
URL: http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/library/rtnf92.htm
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) report. [02/06]
Stratospheric Ozone
URL: http://www.ec.gc.ca/ozone/en/index.cfm
Environment Canada, the Meteorological Service of Canada -- The Green Lane. [02/06]
Understanding the Ozone Layer
URL: http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/cd/brochures/understandozonelayer_e.cfm
Full text of a brochure published which give a basic description of the ozone layer and the effects of pollution on it. Environment Canada, the Meteorological Service of Canada -- The Green Lane. [02/06]
United Nations Environment Programme
URL: http://www.unep.org
Web portal for the UN development of the environment resources. Includes a link to The Ozone Secretariat (the Secretariat for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.)
[10/06]

See also Air Pollution (Outdoor) & Pollution


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