This new fifth edition of Information Resources in Toxicology offers a consolidated entry portal for the study, research, and practice of toxicology. Both volumes represents a unique, wide-ranging, curated, international, annotated bibliography, and directory of major resources in toxicology and allied fields such as environmental and occupational health, chemical safety, and risk assessment. The editors and authors are among the leaders of the profession sharing their cumulative wisdom in toxicology’s subdisciplines. This edition keeps pace with the digital world in directing and linking readers to relevant websites and other online tools.
Due to the increasing size of the hardcopy publication, the current edition has been divided into two volumes to make it easier to handle and consult. Volume 1: Background, Resources, and Tools, arranged in 5 parts, begins with chapters on the science of toxicology, its history, and informatics framework in Part 1. Part 2 continues with chapters organized by more specific subject such as cancer, clinical toxicology, genetic toxicology, etc. The categorization of chapters by resource format, for example, journals and newsletters, technical reports, organizations constitutes Part 3. Part 4 further considers toxicology’s presence via the Internet, databases, and software tools. Among the miscellaneous topics in the concluding Part 5 are laws and regulations, professional education, grants and funding, and patents. Volume 2: The Global Arena offers contributed chapters focusing on the toxicology contributions of over 40 countries, followed by a glossary of toxicological terms and an appendix of popular quotations related to the field.
The book, offered in both print and electronic formats, is carefully structured, indexed, and cross-referenced to enable users to easily find answers to their questions or serendipitously locate useful knowledge they were not originally aware they needed. Among the many timely topics receiving increased emphasis are disaster preparedness, nanotechnology, -omics, risk assessment, societal implications such as ethics and the precautionary principle, climate change, and children’s environmental health.
This new fifth edition of Information Resources in Toxicology offers a consolidated entry portal for the study, research, and practice of toxicology. Both volumes represents a unique, wide-ranging, curated, international, annotated bibliography, and directory of major resources in toxicology and allied fields such as environmental and occupational health, chemical safety, and risk assessment. The editors and authors are among the leaders of the profession sharing their cumulative wisdom in toxicology’s subdisciplines. This edition keeps pace with the digital world in directing and linking readers to relevant websites and other online tools.
Due to the increasing size of the hardcopy publication, the current edition has been divided into two volumes to make it easier to handle and consult. Volume 1: Background, Resources, and Tools, arranged in 5 parts, begins with chapters on the science of toxicology, its history, and informatics framework in Part 1. Part 2 continues with chapters organized by more specific subject such as cancer, clinical toxicology, genetic toxicology, etc. The categorization of chapters by resource format, for example, journals and newsletters, technical reports, organizations constitutes Part 3. Part 4 further considers toxicology’s presence via the Internet, databases, and software tools. Among the miscellaneous topics in the concluding Part 5 are laws and regulations, professional education, grants and funding, and patents. Volume 2: The Global Arena offers contributed chapters focusing on the toxicology contributions of over 40 countries, followed by a glossary of toxicological terms and an appendix of popular quotations related to the field.
The book, offered in both print and electronic formats, is carefully structured, indexed, and cross-referenced to enable users to easily find answers to their questions or serendipitously locate useful knowledge they were not originally aware they needed. Among the many timely topics receiving increased emphasis are disaster preparedness, nanotechnology, -omics, risk assessment, societal implications such as ethics and the precautionary principle, climate change, and children’s environmental health.
Part I. Introduction
1. Toxicology: A Primer
2. History of Toxicology
3. Development of Toxicoinformatics
4. Toxicoinformatics Today
5. Starting Points for Finding Toxicology Resources
Part II. Subject Categorization: Books and More
6. General Texts
7. Analytical Tox
8. Animals in Research
9. Biomarkers
10. Biotechnology
11. Biotoxins
12. Cancer
13. Chemical Compendia
14. Chemicals: Cosmetics and Other Consumer Products
15. Children’s Environmental Health
16. Climate Change
17. Chemicals: Drugs
18. Chemicals: Dusts and Fibers
19. Chemicals: Metals
20. Chemicals: Pesticides
21. Chemicals: Solvents
22. Chemicals: Selected Chemicals
23. Clinical Toxicology
24. Developmental and Reproductive
25. Disaster Preparation & Management
26. Environmental Tox: Aquatic
27. Environmental Tox: Air
28. Environmental Tox: Hazardous Waste
29. Environmental Tox: Terrestrial
30. Environmental Tox: Wildlife
31. Epidemiology
32. Ethical Considerations
33. Exposure Science
34. Food and Nutrient Toxicology
35. Forensic Toxicology
36. Genetic Toxicology
37. Mixtures
38. Molecular, Cell., and Biochem Tox
39. Nanotechnology
40. Noise
41. Occupational Health
42. Omics
43. Pathology
44. Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism
45. Precautionary Principle
46. Radiation
47. Regulatory Tox
48. Risk Assessment
49. Substance Abuse
50. Target Sites: General
51. Target Sites: Cardiovascular
52. Target Sites: Endocrine
53. Target Sites: Gastrointestinal
54. Target Sites: Hematopoietic
55. Target Sites: Immune
56. Target Sites: Kidney
57. Target Sites: Liver
58. Target Sites: Nervous System
59. Target Sites: Respiratory
60. Target Sites: Sensory
61. Target Sites: Skin
62. Terrorism and Warfare (Chemical, Biological and Rad)
63. Testing Methods & Tox Assess (incl Alternatives)
64. Veterinary Tox
Part III. Other Resources
65. Organizations
66. Journals and Newsletters
67. General Interest and Popular Works
68. Technical Reports and Government Information
69. Audiovisual and Non-Print Resources
Part IV. The Online Environment and Data Science
70. The Internet: Recent Trends
71. Web-Based Databases
72. Software Tools for Tox & Risk Assess
Part V. Special Topics
73. Laws and Regulations
74. Hazard Communication
75. Professional Education
76. Public Education
77. Grants and Funding
78. Poison Control Centers
79. Patents
Philip Wexler has written and edited numerous publications related
to toxicology and toxico-informatics, as well as taught and
otherwise lectured globally on these topics. He has been
Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Toxicology including
the current, 4th edition (2023) since its inception as well as
Information Resources in Toxicology (Elsevier. 5th ed. 2020), and
Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective
(CRC Press/Taylor and Francis. 2011). He has served as Associate
Editor for Toxicology Information and Resources for Elsevier's
journal, Toxicology and edited special issues on Digital
Information and Tools. Phil is also overseeing a monographic series
on Toxicology History. Volumes have been published on Antiquity,
the Middle Ages and Renaissance, modern clinical toxicology, risk
assessment, alternative test methods, food and nutrition, and
disasters, with more in the planning stages. He is a
co-Editor-in-Chief of the Taylor and Francis journal, Global
Security: Health, Science, and Policy and a past recipient of the
US Society of Toxicology’s (SOT) Public Communications Award.
Phil recently retired from a long federal career as a Technical
Information Specialist at the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM)
Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program, within its
Specialized Information Services Division (SIS). His initial
position at NLM was as a Fellow of its Associate Program and early
work included a brief stint in the Reference Services Section. A
recipient of the NLM Regents Award for Scholarly or Technical
Achievement and the Distinguished Technical Communication Award of
the Washington chapter of the Society for Technical Communication,
he was team leader for the development of the ToxLearn online
multi-module tutorials, a joint activity with the SOT. Phil had
also been project officer for the LactMed file on drugs and
lactation, and the IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) and
ITER (International Toxicity Estimates for Risk) risk assessment
databases.
Additionally, Phil had been the guiding force behind, and federal
liaison to, the World Library of Toxicology, Chemical Safety, and
Environmental Health (WLT) prototype, a free global Web portal that
provided the scientific community and public with links to major
government agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities,
professional societies, and other groups addressing issues related
to toxicology, public health, and environmental health prior to its
migration to the INND/Toxipedia group. This multilingual tool, fed
by information from a roster of international Country
Correspondents, has been praised as a successful test resource for
overcoming barriers to the sharing of information between
countries, enhancing collaboration, and minimizing duplication.
Currently on hiatus, it awaits a visionary funding source to become
operational.
A trustee of the Toxicology Education Foundation (TEF), Phil had
previously served as its federal liaison. He is a past Chair of
SOT’s World Wide Web Advisory Team, and active in its Ethical,
Legal, Forensics, and Social Issues Specialty Section. He was a
member of the Education and Communications Work Group of the
CDC/ATSDR’s National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical
Exposure. A co-developer of the Toxicology History Room, he is
co-founder and was federal liaison to the Toxicology History
Association. For many years he organized and emceed the popular
Toxicology Quiz Bowl at the annual SOT meetings.
In addition to pursuing toxicology-related activities in his
retirement, Phil is happy to have more time to embrace other
lifelong interests. He is the author of five poetry collections, a
mosaic artist, and a cactus and succulent enthusiast.
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