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Key pharmacology databases

BioMedicine

  • EMBASE.com, the premier database for biomedical literature, particularly for drug and European literature. Also includes unique records from Medline database
  • Medline (OVID), premier database for medical literature
  • PubMed, the freely available database from National Library of Medicine which provides access to Medline plus other references

Science

  • Web of Science, use to find who has cited a particular paper or author. Can also search for topic but by keyword or textword only
  • SciFinder Scholar, use to retrieve information on chemical substance or reaction. Also searches Medline.
  • IPA (International pharmaceutical abstracts) for pharmaceutical and health related journals, including drug evaluations, pharmacology, toxicity, pharmacognosy
  • ProQuest dissertations and theses includes citations, abstracts and reviews of mostly US Masters and PhD theses
  • Scopus is a multidisciplinary database which also enables citation searching
  • TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network) - access to databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas, including GENE-TOX and TOXLINE . It also provides links to related web resources.

Evidence Based Medicine

  • Cochrane Library, especially for evidence-based medicine including systematic reviews of the literature
  • EBM Reviews is a key evidence based medicine (EBM) resource, enabling a simultaneous search of up to seven EBM databases including the Cochrane Library, DARE and ACP Journal Club.

Protocols

  • Cold Spring Harbor (CSH) step by step information on new and classic research techniques and methodologies in cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging.
  • BioMedNet Protocols online coverage of Methods in Molecular Biology Series (1984 -) and the Methods in Molecular Medicine series (1996 -).
    NOTE: Search for 'biomednet' as a keyword at the SpringerLink home page.

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