Library Resources we talked about in class and more

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The CAT - find books and journals. You can search by title, author, or keyword, but topic: title + subject searching will get you the best results.
Hint - Use the advanced search to find Periodicals in Risk Assessment

Multi Search - collects all Penn State databases in one place. You can search for databases on a topic or you can search multiple databases at the same time.

Security
Praeger Security International Online publishes material on international security, including defense and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, military history, and terrorism.

Risk
Risk Abstracts - covers risk-related concerns ranging from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects 1990-date via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).

Business
IBISWorld provides over 700 full-text industry reports, 700 US industry risk rating reports, and information on over 8000 Publicly Traded US Companies as well as hundreds of economic and demographic profiles.

Water and the Environment
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management provides abstracts and references to the literature covering all areas of air, land, water, and noise pollution as well as bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources from 1981 to the present.

Crime
Criminal Justice Abstracts provides abstracts of articles from the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, as well as books and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service contains summaries of more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

Health
The UC Berkeley Library has a guide to Health Risk Assessment resources including links to:
RAIS (Risk Assessment Information System) designed by the Department of Energy to provide risk assessment tools and information.

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