Pharmacy Subject Guide: Databases

Provides a comprehensive online medical resource including textbooks, reference resources, diagnostics tools, multimedia resources, an integrated drug database, and more.

This comprehensive case collection helps students learn and apply basic science and clinical medicine concepts in the context of realistic patient cases.

AccessPharmacy gives pharmacy students instant access to videos, games, Q&A, and leading pharmacy textbooks that will establish an important foundation for learning; enables pharmacy instructors to create, track, and report their students’ progress through a custom curriculum that eases workflow; and allows practicing pharmacists to get information instantly about drugs, herbs and supplements, and consult features and editorials concerning the vast array of current pharmacy publications.

Unlimited full-text access is available for the following 17 ACS journals (Volume 1 to present, with one noted exception): Accounts of Chemical Research, Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Reviews, Environmental Science & Technology, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Education, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry A (for Volume 1 through 1995 and 2003-2012), Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Langmuir, Macromolecules, Nano Letters, and Organic Letters. For nearly all other ACS journals, unlimited access is available for Volume 1 through 1995. Full-text articles are also accessible, in limited numbers, from these other journals from 1996 to the present (and from Journal of Physical Chemistry A for 1996-2002 and after 2012), as well as from ACS Symposium Series e-books and Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) Archives.

Clinical Pharmacology offers peer-reviewed information on all prescription drugs, new and investigational drugs, herbal supplements, and nutritional and over-the-counter products. With instant content updates, the database is able to run drug searches by class, adverse reaction, indication or other feature. Helpful clinical tools include drug-drug interactions, drug identifier, IV compatibility, and patient education reports.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Chief among them is The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, whose reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions.

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UpToDate Lexidrug is a comprehensive clinical database that provides access to current drug and disease information. Features include drug identification, drug dosing calculation, AHFS content, patient education materials, and more. This also includes modules from Facts & Comparisons: Trissel’s IV Check; Drug Comparison Reviews; Comparative Data Tables; and Formulary Monograph Service.

Critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases.

MEDLINE with Full Text includes the authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more found in MEDLINE, but additionally provides full text (dating back to 1965) for over 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE.

MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's website for patients and their families and friends. It is also useful for nursing students. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.

Micromedex is an evidence-based, multi-database drug search engine that provides summary and in-depth information for drugs (both prescription and over-the-counter commercial products), diseases, toxicology, and alternative medicine. It also provides patient counseling tools for medications, procedures, and conditions. Clinical tools include Trissel’s 2 IV Compatibility, Drug Identification, Drug Interactions, and Clinical Calculators.

Provides information on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.

PharmacyLibrary is a database of online pharmacy resources from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). It features content from APhA's authoritative textbooks, an interactive NAPLEX exam review, case studies, article abstracts from the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, and a variety of news sources.

PsycINFO contains more than three million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,500 periodicals in over 35 languages. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

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PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

The ScienceDirect College Edition includes some 1,900 full-text Elsevier journals in three collections: Health & Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social & Behavioral Sciences. Full-text coverage starts in 1995 or later (depending on journal) and continues to the present.

ToxEd delivers point-of-care information in toxicology, from clinical presentation to management of patient cases of drug, plant, mushroom or other toxic substance exposure and overdose. It interfaces with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website and, for drug and toxicology-related articles, the Scopus abstracts database.

UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource for point-of-care decisions. More than 5,700 world-renowned physician authors, editors and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesize the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality.