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PRCT 350 Information Skills in Pharmacy Practice
Reference Sources
Citing Medicine
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NLM Style GuideCitation manual
Help with Scientific Literature
These links are to short YouTube videos created especially for you to help you with your library research.
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How to Read an Article CitationIdentifies the parts of an article citation to help you understand what it all means.
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From Citation to ArticleShows you how to find a specific scientific article when all you have is a citation.
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How to Read a Scientific ArticleTips on how to read a scientific article to enhance your understanding.
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 PharmacyThis resource is provided by the School of Pharmacy. Login with your UM username and password.
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Brigg's Drugs in Pregnancy and LactationPrint volume
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Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Includes 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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DailyMedIncludes information from package inserts
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Drug Facts and ComparisonsThis resource is provided by the School of Pharmacy. Please check the PY1 message board for login information.
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Drug Information PortalFrom the National Library of Medicine
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LactMedAmong 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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LexiCompLexicomp 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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MicromedexThis 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.AIDietary 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 InformationNational Library of Medicine's drug information portal.
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Orange BookApproved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
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PDR: Physician's Desk ReferencePrint volumes
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PDR.netThe PDR online (Prescriber's Digital Reference)
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Profiles of drug substances, excipients, and related methodologyFull 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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ToxnetNLM 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 window
The 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.
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USP-NF Online This link opens in a new window
USPNF 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 to create your USP Access Point account.
Medical and Pharmaceutical Literature
Useful tools for connecting you to library resources
Search the Pharmacy Research Literature
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ACS Journals This link opens in a new window
Provides 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 window
Provides 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 window
CINAHL 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 window
Includes 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 window
ProQuest 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 window
Provides 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 window
Embase 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 window
Topics 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 window
JoVE 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 window
MarinLit 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 window
National 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 window
Contains information on 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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SciFinder Account Registration for FIRST TIME USERSFirst time users must create a login and password.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Database 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 window
The 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.
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USP-NF Online This link opens in a new window
USPNF 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 to create your USP Access Point account.