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Databases & indexes

	British National Formulary (BNF) Details medicines prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their uses, cautions, contra-indications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs.
	CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations in Biology, Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies, Medical Sciences, Agriculture, Fish and Fisheries, Education, Geography, Veterinary Science, Food and Food Industries, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Meteorology, Public Health and Safety, Water Resources, Conservation, Forests and Forestry.
	Current Contents Connect via Web of Knowledge Multidisciplinary, current awareness database of articles as they are published. Provides access to the table of contents and bibliographic data from 8000+ leading scholarly research journals and book.
	DrugDex Comprehensive monographs, evidence-based information on 2,300+ drugs. Covers FDA-approved, non-US, OTC, and investigational drugs. Searchable by generic name, brand name, adverse effect, or indications. Includes dosing tools and calculators.
	EMBASE: Excerpta Medica via Ovid A major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals.
	International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) via Ovid Provides periodical article citations and abstracts from over 800 pharmaceutical and health related journals worldwide.
	Martindale via Ovid Access via Books@Ovid. Summaries and detailed monographs for drugs, disease, alternative medicine, toxicological managements, reproductive risks, and emergency care.
	Medline via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) This bibliographic database is recognised as the premier resource covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
	Medline via Ovid This bibliographic database is recognised as the premier resource covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
	ScienceDirect Full-text, peer reviewed journals, books, and reference works. Covers a broad range of subjects in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, and, Physical Sciences and Engineering.
	SciFinder Scholar (from CAS) First time users must register for web version (see below). A research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more. Client version available in Science and Medical Libraries.
	SciFinder Scholar (registration) First-time users must register for the web version at this site before following the link in the above record.
	Scopus A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Over 16,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Includes some full text links. Access Scopus Tutorials online.
	Toxline via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. Does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
	Web of Science via Web of Knowledge Citation databases with over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.

Additional Pharmacy databases and resources

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Reference

• Drug catalogues -Med:Ref QV/772
• Drug handbooks -Med:Ref QV/39
• Formularies -Med:Ref QV/740
• Medical dictionaries / encyclopaedias -Med:Ref W/13
• Pharmacopoeias -Med:Ref QV/738
• Pharmacy dictionaries -Med:Ref QV/13

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Web Sites

• Medsafe - New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority.  Contains information for health professionals and members of the public.
• PHARMAC - Pharmaceutical Management Agency Limited
• PharmWeb - Good starting point for pharmacy
• RxList: - The Internet Drug Index
• Te Puna Web Directory - NZ Health & Medicine
• USP - US Pharmacopeia

Last revised: 30 September, 2008