NIOSHTIC® with OSHLINE®
OSHLINE®,a new health andsafety resource, is available from the Canadian Centre for OccupationalHealth and Safety (CCOHS). Created by CCOHS, OSHLINE complementsthe coverage of the OSH literature formerly provided by the highly-respectedNIOSHTIC® database of the US National Institute for OccupationalSafety and Health (NIOSH).
NIOSH has discontinued the updatingof the NIOSHTIC database since 1998 and will now be indexing onlyNIOSH-authored or funded articles and reports. To fill the informationgap created by this change, and in response to the needs of users,CCOHS will index the world literature through the new OSHLINEservice.
OSHLINE offers users convenientaccess to references of the most currently published oh&sjournal articles, research reports, books, studies and more. OSHLINErecords complement NIOSHTIC records in quality and content, whileoffering improved searching and consistency of the records. Newjournals have also been added to the full list of journals previouslyreferenced by NIOSHTIC for coverage in OSHLINE. This list willcontinue to be updated with the changing status of published literatureon occupational health and safety.
Health and safety specialistswho depend on NIOSHTIC as a practical working tool will be pleasedto know that NIOSHTIC's detailed records and unique historicalinformation will still be available from CCOHS along with itsnew complementary database, OSHLINE. It will also be possibleto search the two databases as a seamless composite.
NIOSHTIC® with OSHLINE®is available from CCOHS on CD-ROM and through it's internet service,CCINFOweb. Annual subscriptions are $300 CDA/US ($350 International),and multi-user pricing packages are available.
As Canada's national centre foroccupational health and safety information, CCOHS is committedto providing impartial, accurate, useful information to all partiesin the workplace. For this reason, we are constantly updatingour information to provide the most current and reliable data.NIOSHTIC® with OSHLINE is another example of our efforts toprovide products and services which, designed with an emphasison prevention, foster improvements in the workplace.
For more information on NIOSHTIC®with OSHLINE®, or other CCOHS bibliographic databases, pleasecontact CCOHS at 1-800-668-4284or (905) 572-2981, by e-mail at clientservices@ccohs.ca or visit www.ccohs.ca.