Environmental Sources and Publication in the Private Sector

The private sector in the U.S. reflects a continuing interest in a better environment. It has generated a number of successful information systems and publications covering economic, social, health, legal and scientific and technical aspects of environmental quality. A great number of environmental directories exist, most are woefully inadequate. Major ones will be discussed. Several indexing and abstracting services including Pollution Abstracts, Environment Abstracts and Environmental Periodicals, ad-dress environmental matters directly; others such as Chemical Abstracts and Biological Abstracts cover environmental areas as" part of their general subject area coverage. Environmental journals will be touched on briefly. Only a few private environmental information centers exist and these offer a wide range of services including selection, indexing and abstracting, publishing, SDI, retrieval arid" document delivery service's. A brief summary of these will be given.