Find Resources: Pharmacy

Medline

PubMed Using the USP link to PubMed means that you can link to the hundreds of journals the Library subscribes to.

Ovid (with links to 170 fulltext medical journals). Available on and off campus.

Other Databases

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Index to over 700 pharmacy journals, many not indexed in Medline. No fulltext. Available on and off campus.

Drug Information Sources

E*Facts

Drug Facts and Comparisons
Drug Interaction Facts
Med Facts
Review of Natural Products

On-campus only.

Lexicomp includes drug monographs, drug interactions, and physical ID's. Available on and off campus.

Medical Letter is considered one of the most trusted sources of information about drug therapy. The USP subscription also includes access to the handbooks of Antimicrobial Therapy and Drugs of Choice and Adverse Drug Reactions Database. For remote access link from our journal list.

Micromedex is a collection of several useful products:

Drugdex: drug monographs with extensive reference lists
Physician's Desk Reference
Index Nominum (international drug names)
Martindale's (European drug monographs)
PDA free download (click on "Formulary and Handheld," then "Mobile Micromedex," and then follow directions)

On and off campus, with separate sign-in required.

Pharmacists Letter "a subscription service for pharmacists covering new developments in drug therapy, and trends in pharmacy practice."

Available only to fulltime faculty and students in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Requires setting up a unique userID. Click on "I need a UserId" and follow instructions. USP recommends you enter any four digits, NOT the last four digits of your SSN#.

USP DI

Medical Textbooks

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th Edition, updated monthly. Available on and off campus.

Stat!Ref is a collection of fulltext medical references, including AHFS Drug Information, Goodman and Gilman's, Mosby's GenRx, USPDrug Information, Katzung's Basic and Applied Pharmacology and a number of clinical medical textbooks. Password needed off campus.

And More

NABPLAW: Pharmacy law. Password needed on and off campus. Caution: this is a flawed product and often does not work.

R&D Insight: information on drugs in the pipeline. Password needed on and off campus.

King Guide to Parenteral Admixtures

Information on IV drug compatibility and stability. Available on and off-campus.

UptoDate

A stand-alone version this clinical evidence resource is loaded onto a laptop available at the library's Circulation Desk for use within the library. Sorry--no Internet access on or off campus. The cost for just access through the campus network is prohibitive.