NIOSHTIC® with OSHLINE®

OSHLINE®,a new health and safety resource, is available from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS). Created by CCOHS, OSHLINE complements the coverage of the OSH literature formerly provided by the highly-respected NIOSHTIC® database of the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

NIOSH has discontinued the updating of the NIOSHTIC database since 1998 and will now be indexing only NIOSH-authored or funded articles and reports. To fill the information gap created by this change, and in response to the needs of users, CCOHS will index the world literature through the new OSHLINE service.

OSHLINE offers users convenient access to references of the most currently published oh&s journal articles, research reports, books, studies and more. OSHLINE records complement NIOSHTIC records in quality and content, while offering improved searching and consistency of the records. New journals have also been added to the full list of journals previously referenced by NIOSHTIC for coverage in OSHLINE. This list will continue to be updated with the changing status of published literature on occupational health and safety.

Health and safety specialists who depend on NIOSHTIC as a practical working tool will be pleased to know that NIOSHTIC's detailed records and unique historical information will still be available from CCOHS along with its new complementary database, OSHLINE. It will also be possible to 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 for occupational health and safety information, CCOHS is committed to providing impartial, accurate, useful information to all parties in the workplace. For this reason, we are constantly updating our information to provide the most current and reliable data. NIOSHTIC® with OSHLINE is another example of our efforts to provide products and services which, designed with an emphasis on prevention, foster improvements in the workplace.

For more information on NIOSHTIC® with OSHLINE®, or other CCOHS bibliographic databases, please contact CCOHS at 1-800-668-4284 or (905) 572-2981, by e-mail at clientservices@ccohs.ca or visit www.ccohs.ca.