A new service has been established by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. It is designed to facilitate the dissemination of environmental health information, and is, at the same time, an attempt to lower the overall costs to the tax payer. The argument for maintaining this outreach is compelling when you consider that environmental health information is useful only when it is shared by the people, institutions, and agencies that are able to make use of it.
Scientific data is of little value if it remains buried in laboratory data books.
In other words, data must be shared to be useful, and the more widely disseminated it is, the more likely that it will find audiences for whom the information is meaningful. This information is of vital interest to those that are concerned with the mechanisms of action of toxic agents, as well as to those who make regulatory decisions on acceptable levels of chemicals in the environment. EHP is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes high quality scientific articles along with news of the environment. EHP serves the scientific community and there is no favored path to publication. The information published in EHP is recognized around the world as being uniformly reliable and of high scientific calibre.