Research Guides: Pharmacy: Access Databases &amp; Articles

Boolean Searching Tips

Boolean Searching Tips - Using the AND, OR and NOT operators to search

This tutorial will show you how to utilize Boolean logic to search the Internet.

Searching the Internet and databases are like thumbing through large file cabinets. As such, finding the right contents is similar often best accomplished by following the rules of computer database searching. Much database searching is based on the principles of Boolean logic.

Boolean logic refers to the logical relationship among search terms, and is named for the British-born Irish mathematician George Boole.

Primary Databases for the School of Pharmacy

Access Pharmacy
Access Pharmacy is a comprehensive, content-rich online pharmacy resource that allows users to explore leading pharmacy references, search curriculum topics, and research drugs and supplements. For Pharmacy Students and Faculty ONLY

American Recall Center
The American Recall Center provides drug and medical device recall information alongside practical healthcare information and support. We aim to build the most comprehensive resource on the Internet for timely and trusted material regarding healthcare topics that matter to the consumer. The team at ARC is dedicated to helping consumers find accurate information with ease.
Clin-Alerts
Clin-Alerts (CLA) provides comprehensive summaries of adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, and market withdrawals from over 100 key medical and research journals from around the world. Clin-Alerts primary focus is drug-drug interactions, but it also features food-drug interactions, medication errors and dietary supplements. It also features First Report notice of the first documented report of an adverse clinical event.

Clinical Pharmacology
Provides tools for drug identification plus detailed drug product information and reports.

ConsumerLab.com
ConsumerLab.com provides comprehensive information about vitamin, herbal and other supplements, and nutritional products. Includes ConsumerLab.com's independent product evaluations, test results for ConsumerLab.com selected products and Approved Products from ConsumerLab.com’s Quality Certification Program, information on categories not covered by ConsumerLab.com’s testing in its CL Answers section, product recalls, and safety warnings.

Facts & Comparisons eAnswers
Facts & Comparisons eAnswers is a collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools that provides an extensive drug information library.
LexiComp
Lexicomp Online provides relevant drug, disease, and clinical information, helpful for hospital pharmacists when collaborating with physicians, nurses and other clinical staff.
LWW Health Library: Premium Pharmacy Collection
The LWW Health Library is your portal to trusted Lippincott content--including our most commonly required textbooks and multimedia assets--for use in pharmaceutical sciences programs. For Pharmacy students and faculty ONLY
Micromedex
Micromedex provides referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine. Also access IBM CareNotes which includes patient education handouts, conditions, and diagnoses.
Natural Medicines
Natural Standard (now part of Natural Medicines) was founded by healthcare providers and researchers to provide high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Natural Standard provides Evidence-based, Peer-reviewed, Consensus-driven, Decision-support Tools for providers, insurers, manufacturers, retailers and consumers.
PubMed
PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, as well as: out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a full-text scientific database offering more than 3.5 million journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.
SciFinder-n
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***Create an account using your Union email while on campus***

SciFinder-n is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more!
UpToDate
Content is provided by a faculty of 4,400 expert clinicians. This resource covers over 8,500 topics in 17 medical specialties and includes a calculator and drug interaction feature. For Pharmacy and Nursing students and faculty ONLY

Additional Databases in the Health Sciences

BioMed Central
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An open access publisher of peer reviewed research in biology and bio-medicine. The website requires free registration.
CINAHL with Full Text
This resource provides full text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL database dating back to 1981.
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians in medical and nursing areas as well as psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.

Maximum of 1 user at the same time.
Health and Wellness
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A consumer health resource providing thousands of full text medical journals, magazines, reference works, and multimedia on a full range of health related issues from current disease and disorder information, alternative medicine, and more.
Health and Medicine
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Multi-source database provides access to full text and images of many respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.

Inactive Ingredients Database (FDA)
The Inactive Ingredients Database is maintained and powered by the USActives Portal team. It is updated each quarter and contains all records on file at the US FDA.
LactMed
LactMed, a free online database with information on drugs and lactation, is one of the newest additions to the National Library of Medicine's TOXNET system, a Web-based collection of resources covering toxicology, chemical safety, and environmental health.
LiverTox
LiverTox provides up-to-date, accurate, and easily accessed information on the diagnosis, cause, frequency, patterns, and management of liver injury attributable to prescription and nonprescription medications, herbals and dietary supplements.

MEDLINE (EBSCO)
MEDLINE® covers the international literature on biomedicine, with information indexed from approximately 3,900 journals published world-wide.
MedlinePlus
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Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it provides information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues, the latest treatments, information on drugs or supplements, medical videos, and illustrations.
Nursing and Allied Health
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This collection covers all aspects of the nursing profession from direct patient care to health care administration and brings together information found in more than 1,000 journals, with a strong emphasis on full text titles cited in CINAHL.
APA PsycINFO
PsycINFO® database provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

TOC Journal Browser

MEDLINE/PubMed Journal Browser

Browse TOCs (Table of Contents) by journal title via MEDLINE/PubMed. View the table of contents, abstracts--even the full text articles--of recently published core medical journals.