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This is a guide to locating pharmacy information at the Library both hardcopy and electronic at Charles Darwin University. Where do I start my research?A good way to start your research is to define your topic by using subject dictionaries and to
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| Call Number or Location | Subject |
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| 541.3 | Chemistry |
| 615.3 |
Pharmacy practice |
| 615.8 | Drugs |
How do I find journal articles (Databases)?
The library holds journals in print and electronic formats. The best way to access articles in these
journals is by using the databases listed below. When you find an article you want to read, use the
Library Catalogue and the E-journals list to see if we hold a print copy or have access to the
electronic copy in full-text. Some databases listed will have direct links to the full-text article. The
databases listed are just a few of the many available.
Drug Information databases :New for 2008!!!
Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH)
AMH is an independent, up-to-date, comparative, drug reference resource for Australian health care professionals.
Searchable peer-reviewed clinical guidelines. Topics include analgesia, antibiotics, cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrinology, neurology, gastroenterology, dermatology, palliative care, psychotropics and drug prescribing in pregnancy and breastfeeding.
ETG Complete is an electronic compilation of Therapeutic Guidelines. eTG Complete provides clear, practical, authoritative and succinct therapeutic information for health practitioners, for the management of patients with specific conditions. The information provided is a distillation of current evidence and opinion. The text is arranged into chapters and sections according to diagnostic entities. Each section gives explanatory information, followed by recommendations for therapy.
This database provides drug information, interactions, herbal information, and patient medication handouts.
3 concurrent users
provides access to information on over 2,300 prescription and non-prescription drugs. Both abbreviated and full product information is presented, including dosage, adverse reactions, and drug interactions, as well as PBS data, price, use in sport, gluten content, and much more.
5 concurrent users
This resource provides drug information and interactions.
5 concurrent users
Medical Databases
AMI - Australasian Medical Index Indexes and abstracts articles from over 100 Australian health and pharmacy journals not indexed for MEDLINE on all aspects of health and medicine. 1968+
APAIS-Health - Australian Public Affairs Information Service – Health Covers health and medicine in Australia and in particular the legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health. Clinical articles are not indexed. 1978+
Cochrane library Evidence Based Medicine - A synthesis of existing research on the effects of health care
MEDLINE- PubMed PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
ScienceDirect Collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Access includes limited number of subscription tiles as well as complimentary titles. Follow link to see pharmacology
Current Contents Connect (ISI) Most up-to-date references to core academic journals in all subjects. Includes Alerting service. Back file of last 4 years.
Ingenta General database with some full-text. Includes alerting service.1988+
features over 1000 journals, major reference works, online books and databases plus professional and management resources. Choose Medicine and Healthcare, then Pharmacology. Includes access to 58 journals, 38 full text online pharmacy texts and 5 pharmacy reference works .
Web of Science References to core academic journal articles in all subject areas. Each reference has links to articles cited by and citing that reference as well as related articles. 1986+
- INFORMIT Databases provide access to Australian materials in areas relating to health across a wide variety of databases.
AUSThealth Indexes - Online Including AMI - Australasian Medical Index 1968 -, APAIS-Health - Australian Public Affairs Information Service – Health 1978 - ATSIhealth - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography 1900 - AusportMed 1989 - CINCH-Health - Health Issues in Criminal Justice 1968 - DRUG - Drug Database 1974 - H&S - Health & Society Database 1980 - HIVA - HIV/AIDS Database 1980 – and RURAL - Rural and Remote Health Database
CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
Ebsco is a cumulative index to nursing and allied health articles from worldwide, scientific literature presented for the needs of health professionals.
PsycINFO (EBSCOhost) indexes and abstracts journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
E Journals
When you find an article you want to read, use the
Library Catalogue and the E-journals list to see if we hold a print copy or have access to the electronic copy in full-text. Also there are a number of other avenues:
Highwire Press This is a division of the Stanford University Libraries. HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content, with 882 journals and 1,045,838 free, full-text articles online. With their partner publishers they produce 72 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals. Some are embargoed for 12 months or so.
SAGE publishes more than 485 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals.
Synergy interface (Blackwell Science Journals a full text journal database from Blackwell Publishers covering a range of disciplines.
Wiley Interscience features over 1000 journals, major reference works, online books and databases plus professional and management resources.
Journal title abbreviations
Journals included in PubMed Abbreviations and full titles for all journals indexed in PubMed
Web of Science Journal Title Abbreviations
Abbreviations of journal titles indexed in Web of Science.
To access: Open Web of Science, click on Cited Ref Search. Following the Cited Work text box, click on the 'list of journal abbreviations' link to access the alphabetical listings of titles and abbreviations.
All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
Web pages that list journal title abbreviations.
Web Sites
Searching for the evidence. These sites support Evidence Based research
| Cochrane Collaboration | The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care. Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, RCTs |
| DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects) | Systematic reviews |
| Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, RCTs, etc | |
| Bandolier | Critically Appraised Topics |
DUETS (Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments) |
Evidence about the non-evidence |
| A selection of all the above | |
| UK National Institute for Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) | clinical practice - guidance on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS. |
| Clinical Knowledge Summaries | practical, reliable, evidence-based, a central resource for the National Library for Health. |
| The Therapeutics Initiative is an independent organization at The University of British Columbia dedicated to providing up to date, evidence based, practical information on rational drug therapy. | |
| SumSearch search engine | A selection of all the above |
Web site directories
3-D Structure database of chemicals with pharmaceutical activity Database of 400 3D-Molecular Structures. Download a free copy of Chime 2.6 for viewing chemical structures.
The British National Formulary does allow limited password access
Drugbank A Canadian bioinformatics and cheminformatics resource that combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information
Electronic Textbook of Dermatology May be useful
Ethics Web Comprehensive Web resource with links to organisations, web databases and web sites.
Martindale's The Virtual Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology Centre.
An amalgam of useful links. Not to be confused with the text with the same name.
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Links to a range of Bioethics Resources on the Web. Produced by Georgetown University, USA.
Pharmacy Guild of Australia
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
Pharmacist relevant sites Links to a range of Pharmacy Web resources and search tools. Produced by Tasmanian Pharmacy Computer Users Group.
Pharmweb Directory of information, including a library of archives from over 100 moderated discussion forums.
RxList: the internet drug index Commercial drug information site. A search for a drug will retrieve: description, clinical pharmacology, drug interactions, overdose contraindications and patient information.
NSW TAG (NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group
NSW TAG (NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group) represents experts in drug therapy from the teaching hospitals in NSW
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Pharmacy Comprehensive Web resource with links to listservs (discussion lists), organisations, jobs, web databases and web sites.
Other Australian Pharmacy Schools
Australian College of Pharmacy Practice, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Health Studies, Bachelor of Pharmacy degree, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Curtin University of Technology, School of Pharmacy, Perth, Western Australia
James Cook University, Pharmacy, Townsville, Queensland
La Trobe University (Bendigo Campus),Bendigo, Victoria
Monash University (Parkville Campus), Victorian College of Pharmacy, Parkville, 3052 Victoria
University of Queensland, School of Pharmacy, St. Lucia, Queensland
University of South Australia, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Adelaide, South Australia
University of Sydney, Faculty of Pharmacy, Sydney, New South Wales
University of Tasmania, Tasmanian School of Pharmacy, Hobart, Tasmania
University of Western Australia, Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences, Master of Pharmacy, Crawley WA 6009
General scientific and scholarly web directories and archives
Australian Digital Theses project Most Australian universities are depositing the full text of their current PhD and research Master theses in the ADT server.
Citeseer CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature. Contains an extensive citation cross reference.
Directory of Open Access Journals The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Google Scholar A search engine for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. If you are off campus then use this link Google Scholar. It will prompt you for your Internet login and password
OAIster This site provides access to institutional archives. You may be able to find full text of theses or difficult to source papers. As of Feb 2005, OAIster contains over 5 million records from more than 400 worldwide institutions.
Scirus A comprehensive science-specific search engine. Find scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data from the Web, reports and journal articles.
Internet Tutorial for Pharmacy Very British oriented tutorial, but may be useful!Tools
British National Formulary Useful calculators eg for body mass, conversions.
BASIC PHARMACOKINETICS created by staff at Creighton University School of Pharmacy
and Allied Health Sciences Omaha Nebraska
Pronunciation guides
Merck Manual
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/resources/pronunciations/index/a.html
Click any drug name to hear pronunciation.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Index
Click Drugs, then the specific entry for a link to audio pronunciation file
A First Course in Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics
from David Bourne of the OUHSC College of Pharmacy . Oklahoma City
Neuroscience of psychoactive substance use and dependence
A World Health Organisation (WHO-UN) report
"This neuroscience report is the first attempt by WHO to provide a
comprehensive overview of the biological factors related to substance use
and dependence by summarizing the vast amount of knowledge gained in
the last 20-30 years."
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How do I cite and manage my information resources
Below is the guides to legal citation styles recommended at CDU and to the StudySkills site which provides information on other aspects of presentation.
| Title | Location or Call Number |
| EndNote | Link to the EndNote software and introductory information about its use and functions |
| International Committee of Medical Journal Editors | Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Sample References with Vancouver style of referencing |
| Studyskills | http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/studyskills/ |
