Pharmacy Information Resources - PHAD 792 - Drug Development and Marketing - Library Guides at University of Mississippi Libraries

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I (Brian Young) am the School of Engineering Library Liaison, as well as the library collection strategist. If you need any assistance, please contact me through email at bwyoung@olemiss.edu.

I can assist with:

using any of the databases listed on this guide
the library acquiring books for your research
Creating tutorials for School of Pharmacy classes

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Research Starting Points

Drugs@FDA: FDA-Approved Drugs
Provides information about FDA-approved brand name and generic
prescription and over-the-counter human drugs and biological therapeutic products. Includes most of the drug products approved since 1939. The majority of patient information, labels, approval letters, reviews, and other information are available for drug
products approved since 1998.
ClinicalTrials.gov
A database of privately and publically funded clinical studies conducted around the world
Drug Information Portal
A gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

Search the Pharmacy Research Literature

Use these databases to search the journal literature. For drug information, click the drug information tab. See the Chemistry Subject Guide for information on that topic.

AHD.com : American Hospital Directory This link opens in a new window
The 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.
AHFS Consumer Medication Information This link opens in a new window
AHFS Consumer Medication Information is a recognized standard for patient drug information. 1100 drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.
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.
Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including articles, theses, books, and abstracts.
Health Source Nursing / Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides 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.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database is produced by Thomson Reuters and includes information from over 800 pharmaceutical, medical, and health-related journals published worldwide since 1970.
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.
LexiComp Online This link opens in a new window
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.
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.
MEDLINE (via Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
National Library of Medicine's premier database in the life sciences, with a concentration in biomedicine.
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
Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window
Contains informationon dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
Free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
Note: Register from on campus to use
Tutorial Videos
Guided Introduction

SciFinder Account Registration for FIRST TIME USERS
First time users must create a login and password.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive 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.
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.
USPNF 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.

Each user must create their own ID and password to access this database.

Drug Information Resources

Access Pharmacy
This resource is provided by the School of Pharmacy. Please check the PY1 message board for login information.
Brigg's Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation
Print volume
ClinicalTrials.gov

Cochrane Library
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.

DailyMed
Includes information from package inserts
Drug Facts and Comparisons
This resource is provided by the School of Pharmacy. Please check the PY1 message board for login information.
Drug Information Portal
From the National Library of Medicine
Drugs@FDA
Kucer's The Use of Antibiotics
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.
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.
Micromedex
This resource is provided by the School of Pharmacy. Please check the PY1 message board for login information.

Natural Medicines
Contains information on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies.

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.
NLM Drug Information
National Library of Medicine's drug information portal.
Orange Book
Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
PDR: Physician's Desk Reference
Print volumes
PDR.net
The PDR online (Prescriber's Digital Reference)
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.
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).
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.

USP Dictionary Online
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.
USPNF Online
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.

Each user must create their own ID and password to access this database.

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