Reference Sources
Help with Scientific Literature
These links are to short YouTube videos created especially for you to help you with your library research.
An introduction to the PICOT format for clinicians
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An introduction to the PICOT format for clinicians
"Clinicians interested in research pursuits, related to patient care, should consider the use of a literature search and the PICOT format when engaging clinical researchers. This approach will provide clinicians and researchers an initial basis for mutual understanding, communication and direction to help answer clinical study questions of most relevance."
Drug Information Resources
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Access Pharmacy
This resource is provided by the School of Pharmacy. Login with your UM username and password.
Additional information on AccessPharmacy content is available through McGraw-Hill: https://mheducation.libguides.com/c.php?g=1005694&p=8823678
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Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowIncludes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and results of the worlds best medical research studies. The Cochrane Reviews are provided in full text.
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DailyMed
Includes information from package inserts
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Drug Facts and Comparisons
This resource is provided by the School of Pharmacy. Please check the PY1 message board for login information.
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Drug Information Portal
From the National Library of Medicine
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LactMed
Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.
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LexiComp
Lexicomp Online provides clear, concise, point-of-care drug information, including dosing, administration, warnings and precautions, as well as clinical content, such as clinical practice guidelines, IV compatibility from Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database, and other tools. Includes AHFS Drug Information and Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference.
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Micromedex
This resource is provided by the School of Pharmacy. Login with your UM username and password.
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Natural Medicines This link opens in a new windowContains information on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies.
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Supp.AI
Dietary and herbal supplements are popular but unregulated. Supplements can interact or interfere with the action of prescription or over-the-counter medications. Currently, it is difficult to find accurate and timely scientific evidence for these interactions.To solve this problem, Supp.AI automatically extracts evidence of supplement and drug interactions from the scientific literature and presents them here.
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NLM Drug Information
National Library of Medicine's drug information portal.
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Orange Book
Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
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PDR.net
The PDR online (Prescriber's Digital Reference)
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Profiles of drug substances, excipients, and related methodology
Full text is available only for the last 5 years of information. For older entries, use the citation information to help you find the print volumes in the library.
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Purple Book (FDA)
The “Purple Book” lists biological products, including any biosimilar and interchangeable biological products, licensed by FDA under the Public Health Service Act (the PHS Act).
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Toxnet
NLM discontinued Toxnet in 2018 and integrated its content into other resources.
See their page for guidance on how to access content previously in Toxnet.
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USP Dictionary Online This link opens in a new windowThe USP Dictionary of United States Adopted Names (USAN) and International Drug Names is the leading reference for nonproprietary drug names and chemical structures. In addition to USANs, the USP Dictionary provides International Nonproprietary Names (INNs), British Approved Names, Japanese Accepted Names, brand names, Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII) codes, manufacturers, official USPNF names, molecular weights, graphic formulas, pharmacologic and/or therapeutic categories, and pronunciations.
Individual accounts are required, click here to create your USP Access Point account.
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USP-NF Online This link opens in a new windowUSPNF is a combination of two compendia, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF). Monographs for drug substances, dosage forms, and compounded preparations are featured in the USP.
Individual accounts are required, click here to create your USP Access Point account.
Medical and Pharmaceutical Literature
Useful tools for connecting you to library resources
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BrowZine This link opens in a new windowVisual platform that enables users to browse the University Libraries' full-text scholarly journal subscriptions by subject area.
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UMissMe
Install this bookmarklet in your browser to instantly create a proxied web page with access to library resources.
Search the Pharmacy Research Literature
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ACS Journals This link opens in a new windowProvides abstracts and full text for all journals produced by the American Chemical Society.
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AHD.com : American Hospital Directory This link opens in a new windowThe American Hospital Directory provides data and statistics about more than 6,000 hospitals nationwide. AHD.com hospital information includes both public and private sources such as Medicare claims data, hospital cost reports, and commercial licensors. On campus use only.
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Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowProvides full text access to volumes published by Annual Reviews. Covers topics in biomedical/life, physical and social sciences.
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Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCollection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL.
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Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowIncludes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and results of the worlds best medical research studies. The Cochrane Reviews are provided in full text.
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Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.
This database includes an AI powered tool. For more information see the ProQuest Research Assistant FAQ.
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Dissertations & Theses: University of Mississippi This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the citations and abstracts, as well as full text when available, for dissertations and theses produced by graduate students at the University of Mississippi.
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Embase This link opens in a new windowEmbase is a comprehensive biomedical database that focuses on drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, clinical medicine, and basic science relevant to clinical medicine.
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Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index This link opens in a new windowTopics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowProvides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including articles, theses, books, and abstracts.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowProvides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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JoVE Unlimited: Video Journal This link opens in a new windowJoVE Unlimited Video Journal is the leading peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed video methods journal which publishes experimental techniques in a visual format.
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Lexidrug This link opens in a new windowLexicomp Online provides clear, concise, point-of-care drug information, including dosing, administration, warnings and precautions, as well as clinical content, such as clinical practice guidelines, IV compatibility from Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database, and other tools. Includes AHFS Drug Information and Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference.
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MarinLit This link opens in a new windowMarinLit is a database of marine natural products literature. MarinLit allows researchers to search over 32,000 compounds across over 34,000 articles.
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MEDLINE (via Ebsco) This link opens in a new windowNational Library of Medicine's premier database in the life sciences, with a concentration in biomedicine.
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MEDLINE (via PubMed) This link opens in a new windowNational Library of Medicine's premier database in the life sciences, with a concentration in biomedicine
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Natural Medicines This link opens in a new windowContains informationon dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies.
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PubMed Central This link opens in a new windowFree archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
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SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowDatabase from Elsevier that provides abstract and full text access to more than 2500 journals from several publishers. It includes more than 9 million full text articles covering a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines.
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Scopus This link opens in a new windowComprehensive abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus supports research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields as well as in the arts and humanities. Scopus does not test or support Mac/IoS Devices. Scopus recommends IE 8 or higher, Chrome or Firefox.
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USP Dictionary Online This link opens in a new windowThe USP Dictionary of United States Adopted Names (USAN) and International Drug Names is the leading reference for nonproprietary drug names and chemical structures. In addition to USANs, the USP Dictionary provides International Nonproprietary Names (INNs), British Approved Names, Japanese Accepted Names, brand names, Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII) codes, manufacturers, official USPNF names, molecular weights, graphic formulas, pharmacologic and/or therapeutic categories, and pronunciations.
Individual accounts are required, click here to create your USP Access Point account.
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USP-NF Online This link opens in a new windowUSPNF is a combination of two compendia, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF). Monographs for drug substances, dosage forms, and compounded preparations are featured in the USP.
Individual accounts are required, click here to create your USP Access Point account.
