Pharmacy

With AccessPharmacy, you can browse core pharmacy curriculum topics, browse by organ system, review textbooks, and search across leading pharmacy online references. AccessPharmacy includes drug monographs, information on common diagnostic tests, calculators, and a wide variety of cases and care plans. At the core of AccessPharmacy is a set of over 20 pharmacy and medical references.

• Subject area(s):
• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

From the publisher: "The Annals is an independent, peer-reviewed medical journal that advances pharmacotherapy throughout the world by publishing evidence-based articles on practice, research, and education."

• Subject area(s):
• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

Each year, Annual Reviews reviews the most significant primary research to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field and help them keep up to date in their area of research. Area of coverage include biomedicine (including pharmacy), biology, chemistry, and the social sciences.

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• Pharmacy
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Psychology

Browse 40+ full-text ebooks from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The collection is divided into two sets (with some overlap): the Core Collection and the Student Collection. Click the More tab to see the titles list. ASHP ebooks can be read online or downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.

• Subject area(s):
• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

Use the resources below for information about chemical names, structures, and properties. These resources can be searched by chemical name, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula or weight, InChIKey, or by structure.

• ChemSpider
  A chemical structure database providing fast access to over 34 million structures, properties, and associated information. (Also see SyntheticPages for chemical reactions.)
• PubChem
  PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's database of chemistry information for scientists, students, and the general public.

• Subject area(s):
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

A Cochrane Collection resource, Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA) provides a readable, digestible, clinically focused entry point to rigorous research from the Cochrane Collection's systematic reviews. Clinical Answers' intent is to provide clinicians with actionable knowledge and to inform decision making at the point of care. Each Cochrane Clinical Answer contains a clinical question, a short answer, and an opportunity to 'drill down' to the evidence from relevant Cochrane reviews.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Kinesiology

The CDSR is the leading resource for systematic reviews in healthcare.  Each Cochrane Review is peer reviewed. Currently, there are over 5,000 full-text reviews covering a wide range of healthcare research questions. Click the "More" tab above to view the full list of Cochrane Collection databases.

A good starting point for exploring the Cochrane Collection is Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA), a resource which applies the CDSR's systematic reviews to relevant clinical questions.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Kinesiology

This National Library of Medicine site lets you search a wide range of US government resources for information on over 15,000 drugs. Drug Information Portal searches all of these databases: MedlinePlus, AIDSinfo, Medline/PubMed, LactMed, HSDB, Dietary Supplements Labels Database, TOXLINE, DailyMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, NIAID Anti-HIV/OI Database, ChemIDplus, Drugs@FDA, DEA, and USA.gov.

• Subject area(s):
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy

Facts & Comparisons provides monographs detailing drug actions, indications, administration and dosage, interactions, adverse reactions, warnings and more. Comprehensive tables compare products of similar formulation, including dose form and strength, distributor name, how supplied, product identification codes and more.

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• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

The Orange Book identifies drug products approved on the basis of safety and effectiveness by the FDA. (Note that drugs approved only on the basis of safety are not included.) The Orange Book also contains therapeutic equivalence evaluations for multisource prescription drugs. Searchable the Orange Book by active ingredient, proprietary name, applicant holder, or application number.

• Subject area(s):
• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

Hospital Pharmacy is a peer-reviewed journal which focuses on medication errors, adverse reaction reporting, formulary drug reviews, original research, current FDA-related drug information, off-label drug uses, new technology, and other topics of special relevance to practicing pharmacists.

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• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative index of biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development. MEDLINE contains citations from approximately 5,600 journals published worldwide. MEDLINE Complete provides the full text of over 2,500 of these journals.

PubMed, the NLM's own MEDLINE search interface, is available here.

• Subject area(s):
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Biology
• Kinesiology
• Psychology

medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. Subject collections include pharmacy and nursing.

When citing article manuscripts from medRxiv, note medRxiv's caution: Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Biology
• Psychology

Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After you register, Medscape automatically delivers to you a personalized specialty site based on your registration profile.

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• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

The Merck Manual describes symptoms, common clinical procedures, laboratory tests, and virtually all the disorders that a general internist might encounter. The Manual also deals with problems of pregnancy and delivery; common and serious disorders of neonates, infants, and children; genetics; drug dependency; psychiatric disorders; and many disorders covered by other specialties.

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• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

Use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus to get definitions of medical terms, and to discover the best search terms for finding relevant articles in the MEDLINE biomedical journal database.

The MeSH thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. MeSH terms are used for indexing, cataloging, and searching for biomedical and health-related information and documents. MeSH provides a consistent way to find content with different terminology but the same concepts. MeSH terms are arranged in a hierarchical structure so that broad searches will retrieve articles indexed with more narrow terms.

• Subject area(s):
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Biology
• Kinesiology

Micromedex provides rapid access to information on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicines, and patient education.

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• Pharmacy

Mometrix offers over 4,500 study guide, practice test, and flashcard titles for 1,500+ different exams. Use Mometrix to study for advanced placement exams (including CLEP and AP), admission exams (including GMAT, GRE, MCAT, LSAT, PCAT, etc.), and professional exams (including CPA, NAPLEX, NCLEX, Praxis, etc.). If you need a study guide, you're likely to find what you need in Mometrix.

• Subject area(s):
• Business
• Education
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy

Search and browse the full-text of over 160 peer-reviewed journals in healthcare, including the areas of nursing, pharmacy, and health information management.

• Subject area(s):
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Kinesiology

Pharmacist's Letter covers new developments in drug therapy and trends in pharmacy practice.

• Pharmacy students: Click here for a free subscription.
• College of Pharmacy faculty: Contact the Office of Experiential Education for access.

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• Pharmacy

Pharmacotherapy publishes original clinically relevant research complemented by evidence-based reviews about drugs and therapeutics.

• Subject area(s):
• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's database of chemistry information for scientists, students, and the general public. PubChem contains information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and much more. PubChem's data comes from government agencies, chemical vendors, journal publishers, and other sources.

• Subject area(s):
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Pharmacy
• Technology

R2 Digital Library hosts a selection of biomedical ebooks for pharmacy, nursing, and other health sciences. R2 offers ebooks from many leading biomedical publishers, including the American Nurses Association, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, and others. Watch this 2-minute tutorial to get started using R2.

• Subject area(s):
• Kinesiology
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Psychology
• Biology
• Chemistry

A searchable database of clinically-oriented drug information. Includes RxList Pill Identification Tool, which allows you to identify unknown tablets and capsules by searching for their ID imprint codes.

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• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) is a clinical search engine designed to allow clinicians to quickly find answers to their clinical questions using the best available evidence. TRIP strives to offer healthcare professionals a complete and updated list of online resources useful for evidence-based practice.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy

UpToDate is a clinical reference tool that provides current answers to patient care, diagnosis and treatment questions at the point of care. Over 200 journals are regularly scanned and synthesized into topic reviews by clinical experts. The content is peer reviewed and fully referenced.

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• Nursing & Allied Health
• Pharmacy
• Kinesiology

• UpToDate with Lexidrug (formerly Lexicomp) includes tools and resources for pharmacists and health professionals, including the following:
  • Drug Information: Concise monographs covering thousands of drugs
  • Interactions: Perform interaction analyses
  • Patient Care Module: Patient education leaflets
  • Drug Identification: Lexidrug ID provides quick identification of unknown medications
  • I.V. Compatibility: Access Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database
  • Medical Calculations: Calculators to assist with drug dosing, drip rates, and organ function assessment for adults and pediatrics

• Subject area(s):
• Pharmacy
• Nursing & Allied Health

Important instructions for accessing USP-NF Online: Before using USP-NF Online you must create a personal USP Access Point account. Complete this sign-up form to create your account. You must use your SWOSU email address.

The United States Pharmacopeia National Formulary (USP-NF) is an online reference of public pharmacopeial standards. It contains standards for medicines, dosage forms, drug substances, excipients, medical devices, and dietary supplements. You'll need to disable your browser's pop-up blocker when using the USP-NF.

• Subject area(s):
• Pharmacy