Who/what is expub?

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Who/what is expub?

• expub is an Internet publisher focused
  exclusively on optimizing chemical hazard
  information for the EHS community. Our products
  contain over 2 Million documents covering
  410,000 unique substances accessible via 2.25
  million synonyms.
• The expub product suite is used by
• Toxicologists
• Industrial hygienists
• Physicians
• Product stewards
• Safety managers
• Hazmat/emergency response personnel
• Risk assessment professionals
• ..... or any other EHS professional seeking
  comprehensive chemical information needed to
  manage the impact of chemicals on the workplace,
  or in the environment.

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expub products are used to

• Establish, maintain and manage safe, healthy and
  compliant workplaces
• Respond to fires, spills, or explosions involving
  hazardous chemicals
• Author and verify MSDS and product labels
• Create regulatory submission documents
• Develop site safety plans
• Support chemical approval processes and identify
  less-hazardous substitute products
• ..... or any other activity where comprehensive
  human and/or environmental hazard data is needed
  to make informed decisions.

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expub Products

• ChemEXPERT Access to over 100 collections
  containing comprehensive chemical hazard
  information
• ReproEXPERT Human reproductive risk data from
  more than a dozen databases
• ListEXPERT Regularly-updated data on the over
  100,000 chemicals included on hundreds of
  regulatory and advisory lists from around the
  world.
• TOXLINE Special the National Library of
  Medicine's (NLM) bibliographic database for
  toxicology
• TSCATS Content from unpublished,
  non-confidential TSCA submissions covering
  chemical testing results and adverse effects of
  chemicals on health and ecological systems.
• MSDSonline Integrated access to millions of
  MSDS from thousands of vendors.

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Using expub

• The expub products are accessible at
  www.expub.com
• UN/PW credentials are needed
• Substance-oriented system
• Four different search modes
• EXPERT Index
• Simple search for documents about a substance
• Full-text Search
• Full-text searching across the body/content of
  documents
• MSDSonline Advanced
• Search screen specifically designed to search the
  MSDS collection
• TOXLINE Special Advanced
• Search screen specifically designed to search the
  TOXLINE collections

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EXPERT Index Search

• Fastest and easiest search, used 98 of the time
• Quickly finds documents about a substance, not
  just containing the name of the substance
• Simple search process
• Enter a substance name, number, or synonym
• Starts With searches will return results on
  substances whose name starts with the text you
  enter
• Exact Match searches will return any results on
  substances whose name matches the exact term you
  enter.
• Contains searches will return any results on
  substances whose name contains the text you
  enter.
• Select substance from the Index
• Select which Product you want to view
  (ChemEXPERT, ListEXPERT, etc)
• Select Database
• Open document

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Contact Information

• Technical Support
• techsupp_at_expub.com
• Help System
• http//www.expub.com/ExPubHelp/Help20System/