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Introduction

This is a guide to some of the most important electronic resources in the field of Pharmacy. Contact the Faculty Liaison Librarian for more information and assistance.

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Books
Articles

Reference Highlights

British pharmacopoeia

Dictionary of pharmaceutical medicine

Encyclopedia of molecular pharmacology

The Gale Encyclopedia of Prescription Drugs

Oxford handbook of clinical pharmacy

Oxford handbook of practical drug therapy

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Other Pharmacopoeia (Free access)

International Pharmacopoeia (9th Ed, 2019)

Japanese Pharmacopoeia (17th Ed, 2016)

Korean Pharmacopoeia (10th Ed, 2012)

香港中藥材標準 Vol. 1-9

臺灣中藥典 (3rd ed, 2018) 網頁

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Pharmacy Resources

Frequently Used E-Resources

Lexicomp Online - Database with point-of-care drug and clinical information.

IBM Micromedex - Provides a wide range of drug related databases tailored to healthcare professional

UpToDate - A collection of the latest medical, patient and drug information.

Key E-Resources

Calculators

ClinicalKey Calculators

Calculators from ClinicalKey which includes Drug Calculators, Clinical Criteria/Decision Trees Calculators, Medical Calculators and Unit Conversions Calculators.

Dynamed Calculators

DynaMed Calculators provide a series of calculators including medical equations, clinical criteria, decision trees, statistics calculators, units and dose convertors, etc. Click “Calculators” at the top of the menu bar to access.

Dictionary/Encyclopedia

Stedman's Online

Features more than 100,000 medical terms and definitions from the Stedman's Medical Dictionary with images and videos.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Provides encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

ExpertPath
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ExpertPath includes over 4,000 topics and 51,000 expert-selected images to provide comprehensive anatomic and clinical pathology decision support. Topics cover all areas of anatomic and clinical pathology and include key information such as differential lists, ancillary tests, image galleries, and specimen-handling protocols.
Medical Imaging in Video
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Medical Imaging in Video gives medical professionals a clear, direct way to observe highly technical imaging procedures before practicing them in a clinical setting.
SMART Imagebase
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The database provides a comprehensive collection of downloadable medical illustrations and animations in the fields of anatomy, physiology, biology and other life sciences.
STATdx
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STATdx is a diagnostic decision support system for radiology and includes over 4,300 diagnoses and 200,000 expert-selected images written by renowned radiologists in every specialty. Topics cover all radiology specialties and include key information such as differential lists, patient cases, image galleries, and normal imaging anatomy.
Visible Body
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Visual Body is a 3D human anatomy visualization tool providing detailed models of all body systems. The available modules are: Human Anatomy Atlas; Muscle Premium; Skeleton Premium; Physiology Animations; Heart & Circulatory Premium.
VisualDx
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VisualDx is a diagnostic decision support system designed by clinicians to aid medical professionals in the diagnosis of visually identifiable diseases. It provides instant access to specialist knowledge at the point of care, merging medical images with concise clinical text. As the clinician enters actual patient findings, VisualDx creates a visual differential diagnosis. VisualDx Mobile is available as native iPhone, iPad, and Android apps.

Clinical Trials Registry

Systematic Review Registry

PROSPERO: An International Register of Systematic Review Procols

Databases for Evidence-Based Practice

Annual Reviews

Annual Reviews publishes 46 series in many subjects areas. Those related to health sciences include biochemistry, biomedical data science, biomedical engineering, cancer biology, genomics and human genetics, immunology, medicine, microbiology, pharmacology and more...

EMB Reviews Databases
- ACP Journal Club : ACP Journal Club summarizes the best new evidence for internal medicine from over 120 clinical journals.
- Cochrane Library : The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
- Cochrane Controlled Register of Trials (CENTRAL) : Central is a highly concentrated source of reports of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials.
- Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) : CMR is a bibliography of publications that report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials.
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) : DARE includes systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of health and social care interventions and the delivery and organisation of health and social care services.
- Health Technology Assessment (HTA) : HTA database includes completed and ongoing health technology assessments from around the world.
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) : NHS EED includes economic evaluations of health and social care interventions.
BMJ Best Practice

Provides decision support through a step-by-step approach that is structured around patient consultation, covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.

Cochrane Interactive Learning

Cochrane Interactive Learning is an online course which provides over 10 hours of self-directed learning on the complete systematic review process for both new and experienced review authors.

Covidence

Covidence is a web based tool that can help streamline and speed up the primary screening and data extraction processes when conducting systematic reviews.

Essential Evidence Plus

It is a comprehensive clinical decision support system that integrates information on 9,000 diagnoses into healthcare professionals’ clinical workflows.

PubMed Clinical Queries

PubMed Clinical Queries are designed to help users filter search results to high quality evidence-based clinical publications.

Trip Database

The Trip search system has a collection of high quality of secondary evidence ranging from systematic reviews and clinical guidelines to evidence-based synopses and clinical Q&As.

UpToDate (On Campus Access Only)

Up-to-date is an evidence-based, peer-reviewed clinical resource to assist with diagnosis and treatment by providing specific answers to clinical questions, increasing users’ clinical knowledge and improving patient care

ORCID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researchers.
ResearcherID
For authors to manage their publication lists, track their times cited counts and h-index, identify potential collaborators and avoid author misidentification.

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Web of Science
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Web of Science consists of citation databases in sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Multidisciplinary content covers scholarly journals, conference proceedings, books, book series, and more.

InCites
InCites is a customized, citation-based research analytics tool that enables users to evaluate institutional productivity and benchmark their output against peers worldwide. Create an account before start using the database.

InCites Journal Citation Report
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JCR provides citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries to enable users to compare and evaluate journals.

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Scopus
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Coverage: 1823 - present
Includes the abstracts and references of 15,000 peer-reviewed journals across different subject disciplines.

SCImago Journal & Country Rank
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.).

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Free Resources:

Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes scholarly literature published in various sources.
Google Scholar Citation
Google Scholar Citation lets authors track citations to their publications over time.
Google Scholar Metrics
Google Scholar Metrics help evaluate journals for authors to consider where to publish their new research.

Microsoft's Academic
Microsoft's Academic provides users with relevant search results from continually refreshed and extensive academic content from over 120 million publications.
ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a social networking site for researchers to set up their profiles, post publication lists and share opinions.
The Lens
The Lens serves global patent and scholarly knowledge as a public good to inform science and technology-enabled problem solving.
SHERPA/RoMEO
SHERPA/RoMEO shows the copyright and open access self-archiving policies of academic journals.

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(Faculty of Medicine)

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Pharmacy: Home

Introduction

LibrarySearch

Reference Highlights

Live Chat

Pharmacy Resources

Frequently Used E-Resources

Key E-Resources

Faculty Liaison Librarian
(Faculty of Medicine)

Citing References

Other Links

New Titles for Pharmacy

Need Help?

Pharmacy: Home

Introduction

LibrarySearch

Reference Highlights

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Live Chat

Pharmacy Resources

Frequently Used E-Resources

Key E-Resources

Faculty Liaison Librarian(Faculty of Medicine)

Citing References

Other Links

New Titles for Pharmacy

Need Help?

Faculty Liaison Librarian
(Faculty of Medicine)