Environmental Health Tools – Open Access Journals from biomedcentral.com and PLOS

In addition to the workhorse Environmental Health Perspectives, there are some other open access resources for environmental health information. Two of these are biomedcentral.com and the Public Library of Science (PLOS). Biomedcentral.com is the home of journals such as Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source, Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, and Population Health Metrics. The journals list can be browsed here.

The Public Library of Science sponsors four journals on biology, medicine, genetics and computational biology. Since the topics are a bit broader, it’s not as easy to pull out information related to environmental health. However you can run across papers such as this one, "Pathways to “Evidence-Informed” Policy and Practice: A Framework for Action", by Shelley Bowen and Anthony Zwi, of the School of Public Health at the University of New South Wales and published in the Public Library of Medicine. This paper may provide a framework for better understanding the concept of “manufactured uncertainty”, which could lead to strategies for counteracting it.