Pharmacy Research Tools
Background or Getting Started
- Library Catalog
- Marriott Library Catalog
- NLM LOCATORplus
National Library of Medicine's Online Catalog - DynaMed
- Harrison's Online
- MD Consult
Fulltext for over 30 medical texts, 40 clinical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, 2,500 patient education handouts, CME, and daily medical updates customized to your specialty. - STAT!Ref Medical Reference Library Fulltext Medical and Pharmacology Textbooks, such as "Mosby's Drug Consult," "AHFS" and the "USP DI."
Top Electronic Resources for Pharmacy in General:
- PubMed MEDLINE
Access to citations from biomedical literature, with linkout to Eccles Library electronic full text journals. 1940's to present. - IPA, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
Cover clinical and technical drug information, pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical education, and legal aspects of pharmacy and drugs. All U.S. state pharmacy journals are indexed as well as most publications on cosmetics. Produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists(ASHP.) 1970 to present. - Cochrane Library
Evidence-based Health Care data, includes the Database of Systematic Reviews. Institutional Access. - eFacts
Online drug information including Drug Facts and Comparisons®, Drug Interaction FactsTM, The Review of Natural Products®, Med Facts: Patient, and the UUHSC FormularyFacts (also theFormulary Tip Sheet -PDF.) University of Utah Health Sciences Center only - Lexi-Comp Online
- MICROMEDEX
Drug and Toxicology Information. University of Utah Health Sciences Center only. - Science Citation via ISI's Web of Science
Find out who has cited an author's work. 1997 to present. - U.S. Patent Citation A comprehensive bibliographic database containing records for each of the 2.6 million U.S. patents issued since 1975. Community of Science.
- U.S Patent & Trademark Office
- Patent Databases
- U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System, TESS Contains pending, registered and dead federal trademarks.
- UUHSC Drug Information Center
To Find Journal Articles, use:
Selected Online Journals:
- American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy
- Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
- British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
- Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
- Molecular Pharmacology
- Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology
- Pharmacological Reviews
- Pharmacology
To find statistics:
- CDC's Data & Statistics
- FDA, U.S. Food & Drug Adminstration
- Faststats from NCHS
- NCHS, National Center for Health Statistics
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Statistical Universe A Lexis/Nexis database of statistical information from leading federal, state, private & international governmental documents. Links to selected full-text publications.
- Utah Department of Health
- WorldAlmanac
Selected websites:
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Current News:
- Clinical Alerts
From NLM, National Library of Medicine, Clinical Alerts are findings from NIH-funded clinical trials. - CDC
- FDA, U.S. Food & Drug Adminstration
- FDA's Drug Information from the Center for Drug Evaluation & Research
- FDA's Electronic Orange Book Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
- FDA's OTC Drugs Over-the-Counter Drugs
- Federal Register via Community of Science
- Federal Register via GPO Access
- NIH, National Insitutes of Health
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- Newspapers:
- Academic Universe
- Newspaper Source
- Proquest Direct
- Utah Newspapers:
- Pharmacy Subject Links from Eccles Health Sciences Library
- University of Utah Health Sciences Center:
- Clinical Alerts
Helpful Tutorials:
- PubMed MEDLINE Tutorial from NLM (National Library of Medicine.)
- Toxicology Tutorials from NLM (National Library of Medicine.)
