The following is a list of online databases and e-journals available in the Frederick Douglass Library to assist you with research in Pharmacy. These resources can be accessed by clicking on the title link. When connecting from off campus, you will be prompted for the 14-digit barcode from the back of your HawkCard ID and your last name.
Citing Sources:
Below is a quick guide providing examples from the latest edition of the American Medical Association (AMA) Manual of Style. Additionally, the library provides access to RefWorks, an online citation management tool, that allows you to import citations from databases and websites and create bibliographies automatically (be sure to set the output style to AMA, 11th edition).
- AMA Citation Guide & Reference List – American Medication Association Manual of Style (11th edition)
- RefWorks – To get started, click on the link and “Sign Up for a New Account” using the Group Code RWUMEasternShore
Textbooks
Textbooks
Access Pharmacy – This an online curricular resource is designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. A flexible resource, AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy reference resources.
LWW Health Library – This is a premium pharmacy collection that provides access to key pharmaceutical sciences and clinical content, as well as rich multimedia ancillaries for teaching and learning in pharmacy related subjects. Students and instructors can quickly access content by topic, subject, disease/disorder, or title. Associated resources in the collection include images, videos, review questions, PowerPoints, and animations.
PharmacyLibrary – Published by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), this leading resource provides the next generation of online pharmacy resources. PharmacyLibrary features content from APhA’s authoritative textbooks, an interactive NAPLEX review, case studies, article abstracts from the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association and a variety of news sources. All these resources are available on one comprehensive search platform using a sophisticated semantic search feature. Users can retrieve relevant information quickly.
Literature Research Databases
Academic Search Ultimate – is a great collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline.
BioMed Central Open Access Free – The research articles in all journals published by BioMed Central are “Open Access”. They are immediately and permanently available online without charge. A number of journals require and institutional subscription to view other content, such as reviews or paper reports. Free trial subscriptions to these journals are available. This database contains full-text.
Business Source Complete – is the world’s definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content for the most important business journals dating back as far as 1886.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text – CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is a robust collection of nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL. This database is the core research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. Full text coverage dates back to 1937.
Cochrane Library – is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration. The databases are: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment Database, NHS Economic Evaluation Database, and, About The Cochrane Collaboration.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – free full text, open access, scientific and scholarly journals, organized by subject. These e-journals are available via the World Wide Web and are only available electronically.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO) – This full-text database of consumer health information provides access to consumer health magazines and reference books. It also provides searching for health pamphlets and patient education fact sheets. This collection also includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs. Subjects covered include fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women’s health, children’s health and more. Coverage: 1985 – current
Health Source: Nursing/Academic (EBSCO) – This full-text database covers nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, nursing management, mental health, medial law and more. Coverage includes nearly 600 scholarly journal titles. Note: some titles do not include the current year.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) – Provides abstracts and indexing using Medical Subject Headings (MESH) for about 4,600 biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. Covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychiatry, pre-clinical sciences, medical education and health care planning and administration of services. This database contains full-text.
Nursing Reference Center (EBSCO) – Nursing Reference Center is a point-of-care evidence-based resource that delivers the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases. Resources include skills and procedures, drug information, patient education, practice resources and continuing education.
PubMed – This database, available through the National Library of Medicine, provides biomedical literature citations to more than 21 million items from Medline, life science journals and online books. Note: If on campus you can access the full-text of any articles that are available in our databases. If off-campus you will need to log into Research Port and access the journal directly.
ScienceDirect – ScienceDirect provides access to over 7,700 journals including the full text of over 1000 journals. Articles are generally available from 1995 forward. Coverage is strongest for biology, chemistry, geology, marine science, mathematics, medicine and physics, but numerous other disciplines are represented, including business, child development, coastal resource management, computer science, economics, history, hospitality, industrial technology, library and information science, and tourism. This database contains full-text.
SciFinder (CAS) – NOTE: This resource requires that you create an account while on campus using your @umes.edu email address. Access is limited to one user at a time. SciFinder is published by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, and provides access to high-quality scientific information in chemistry and related sciences. It is a core chemistry research and discovery tool for finding chemical substances, reactions, journal articles and patent records.
Trip Database – The TRIP Database is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. Users need to register to use this database. Registration is free.
Drug Information Databases
Clinical Pharmacology – Contains complete drug and toxicology information solution for improved decisions and prevention of clinical quality shortfalls at any point of care.
Lexi-Comp-Online – Includes database, 30 faculty only PDA subscriptions and 20 Lexi-Comp Reference Handbooks. Provides ready access to drug summaries and identification indexes, drug interaction information, and tools to help you create multilingual patient care leaflets.
MICROMEDEX – A collection of twelve databases which support clinical decision-making and high-quality patient care by providing comprehensive drug, acute care, and toxicology information.
Pharmacist’s Letter – Pharmacist’s Letter is a subscription service for pharmacists covering new developments in drug therapy, and trends in pharmacy practice. You must log in using the user name and password provided by the College of Pharmacy.
Print and Electronic Journals
Print Journals:
The following is a list of journals that the library has for use in print. These are available only in the library.
- Pharmacy Practice News
- Pharmacy Times
Journal Databases:
In addition to the individual journal titles listed below, the following databases can also be searched to locate full-text articles for several thousand e-journals.
- JSTOR (for back issues)
- SAGE Premier Journals – Browse journals by title
- ScienceDirect – Browse by journal and book titles
Electronic Journals:
The following is the list of journals that the library has available electronically for use. Click on the title of the journal to access it electronically. If you experience any link issues, please report them to refuser@umes.edu. If accessing from off campus, you will be prompted for the 14-digit barcode from the back of your HawkCard ID and your last name.
Web Resources
ACPE Standards for Accreditation – Provides PharmD Program accreditation standards.
ASHP – American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is a professional organization that represents pharmacists who serve as patient care providers.
Community Pharmacy (NCPA) – This organization represents the independent pharmacy community.
MedlinePlus (NLM) – This site provides curated consumer health information.
Medscape – This site provides the latest medical news, clinical trial updates, drug updates and journal articles.
National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health (NIH) – This government agency explores complementary and alternative medicine.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH) – This research institute provides “advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.”
Updated by: Janet Eke (refuser@umes.edu)
Last Revised: 2/6/2023
