Data Sources and Selected Publications

• CEDR (DOE) - Comprehensive Epidemiology Data Resource
• 2000 Census - US Census Bureau
• Office of the Federal Register. This site includes links to the Federal Register Online via GPO Access, the Code of Federal Regulations, The U.S. Government Manual, and the Public and Private Laws for current and past Congresses.
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S. Data from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations, includes U.S. Statistics in Brief, State Rankings, and County and City Data Book.
• (ATSDR) - Hazardous Substances & Public Health - Newsletter

Selected Links to Grant Information from the Federal Government

• NIH Grants and Contracts
• Office of Research, Tulane University. Links to the Funding Opportunities Databases -- Community of Science, Federal Information Exchange (FEDIX), and IRIS. Information on grant information and electronic forms.

Databases for Government Information

PAIS - Public Affairs Information Service. A social and public policy index which provides citation access to periodicals, government documents, books and pamphlets, statistical directories, reports, and proceedings. Materials indexed are published worldwide. This index may be especially helpful in locating information from other countries.

National Library of Medicine databases

MEDLINE, may be searched using:

• OVID
  
• PubMed
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed

Bioethics Resources on the Web - National Institutes of Health

Cancer.gov
http://www.cancer.gov/

HazDat Database (ATSDR's Hazardous Substance Release and Health Effects)
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hazdat.html

TOXNET

Libraries

• Library of Congress
  http://www.loc.gov/
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
• The National Agricultural Library (NAL)
  http://www.nal.usda.gov/
• National Library of Education (NLE)
  http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/projects/nat_ed_library.asp

• LSU Regional Depository Library U.S. Document depository for the state of Louisiana.
  http://www.lib.lsu.edu/govdocs/index.html
• Government Documents Department, Howard-Tilton Library(Main Library, Uptown Campus)
  Selected health related documents are also catalogued in the Tulane Medical Library. Search the Local Catalog.
• Tulane Law Library - Government Documents Government documents are not included in Tulane's local catalog. Contact the Documents Department, Tulane Law Library (John Giffen Weinmann Hall).

Government Information at Tulane

Institutional Program Development and Government/Agency Affairs, Tulane University. Information of interest to the University community concerning federal, state and local legislative and agency activities. Policy issues of interest to the Tulane Community are tracked.

Louisiana State Agencies and Information Resources

• Info Louisiana - Louisiana State Government. Info Louisiana is the WWW server for Louisiana State government. Includes the publication, State of the State. There is an alphabetical topic index and a search engine, Search Info Louisiana.
• State Census Data Center. State demographic and economic information including the Summary Tape File 4 for the state.

Selected Louisiana Libraries with State Document Collections

• Howard-Tilton Library Main library of Tulane University.
• Tulane Law Library Government Documents Department.
• Louisiana State University Includes links to the LSU Libraries online public access catalog, LOLA and the Louisiana Online University Information System, LOUIS, which links the Louisiana academic libraries. The LSU collections include an U.S. Government Depository Library and many special collections, such as the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections. There is also a Louisiana Web Server Directory.
• NUTRIAS - New Orleans Public Library Includes links to the library's online public access catalog, NOPLINE, plus archival inventories of the New Orleans Archive Collection. The archival collection includes Records Relating to Public Health and there is a guide to French medical books in the archival collection. There are many additional Louisiana and New Orleans links.
• State Library of Louisiana Includes directories of Louisiana Libraries with links to additional Louisiana sites on the WEB.
  

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