IARC's monographs (International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of WHO) identify environmental factors (chemicals, complex mixtures, occupational exposures, physical and biological agents, and lifestyle factors) that can increase the risk of human cancer. Interdisciplinary working groups of expert scientists review the published studies and evaluate the weight of the evidence that an agent can increase the risk of cancer. Since 1971, more than 900 agents have been evaluated, of which approximately 400 have been identified as carcinogenic or potentially carcinogenic to humans. Most of the Monographs are available in the Public Health Library (call number RC267.A1.I2). IARC recently made available all Monographs back to 1999 online. More Monographs will be added to this site in the future.

Over the summer, the UC Berkeley Libraries licensed ebrary, a collection of nearly 40,000 ebooks in all disciplines. This rich resource provides online access to ebooks in public health, business, sociology, environmental sciences, life sciences, and more. It also offers many useful features:

• Browse by subject area
• Search across full-text content
• Bookmark, highlight, and take notes with a free personal account

Ebrary requires the Reader plug-in or java client. See our tips on Getting started with ebrary for details.

Access is available from all campus computers. UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students can also access this resource from off campus via the Library Proxy Server or campus VPN.

Global Health (via EBSCO) contains information from journals, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, patents, theses and electronic only publications from more than 150 countries, going back to 1973. Subject coverage includes international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable and infectious diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, occupational health, toxicology, health services, and maternal/child health. This database offers global coverage of both the developing and developed world with items in over 50 languages translated into English. A large proportion of the citations in Global Health are not in PubMed or other sources, so it is an indispensible resource for researching public health. NOTE: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff and students

The Public Health Library has created a Global Health Database Quick Guide to help get you started searching. In addition, mark your calendars for a drop-in Global Health instruction session: November 18, 1:00-2:30 pm, 450C Moffitt Library.

Keeping up to date with the literature and news on Public Health topics can be difficult. The Public Health Library recently created a web page detailing some ways to make this a much easier undertaking. Learn how to set up:

• Automated E-mail Alerts of Saved Searches from Bibliographic Databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Global Health, more)
• Cited Reference Alerts from Web of Science (Find out when your article was cited!)
  
• Journal Tables of Contents Alerts (Thousands of journals make this service available)
• RSS Feeds of Database Search Updates, Journal Tables of Contents, and Science News

If you have any questions about using update services, please contact a reference librarian at the Public Health Library.

"The purpose of this [ongoing] Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for support of public health dissertation research. This program supports research undertaken as part of an academic program to qualify for a doctorate. The average award amount will be $35,000 in direct costs per year, and are awarded for up to one year, with the possibility of extension without additional funds for up to 12 months. The anticipated start date for new awards is within 5 months of submission." Complete details are available from the NIH web site.