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Databases & Journals

Databases listed below will help you locate journal articles on your topic. How to Find a Specific Journal Article
Is It a Scholarly Journal or Isn't It?

Full Text Journals
ILLiad: Interlibrary Loan

Database
AccessMedicine
A collection of medical references including Harrison's Online, Hurst's the Heart, Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacology and the Lange Educational Library.
CareNotes System
CareNotes documents enable you to conveniently provide your patients with complete, easy-to-understand information about all aspects of their care and health.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
The definitive database for nursing and allied health (occupational and physical therapy, nurse anesthesia, physician assistants, sports medicine) covering 1,200 leading journals and providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL.  CINAHL Searching Tips.
Clinical Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacology is the primary drug information and medication management resource of more than 1,000 hospitals, the majority of the country's largest retail pharmacy chains and consultant pharmacy corporations, the majority of U.S. pharmacy and medical schools, well-known health information websites, and hundreds-of-thousands of healthcare professionals and consumers worldwide.
Facts and Comparisons
Includes Drug Facts and Comparisons, Drug Interaction Facts, Med Facts (patient education material), and Review of Natural Products.
FirstConsult
FIRSTConsult is an Evidence Based Primary Care Decision Support Tool providing quick concise information to Clinicians.
Iowa Drug Information Service
The Iowa Drug Information Service (IDIS) database provides access to the serial literature of medicine and pharmacy. Articles from over 180 English-language journals (about one-quarter are published outside the US) concerning human drug therapy, the clinical pharmaceutics of drugs or the economics of drug use are indexed in the database. IDIS/Web Tutorial.
Lexi-Comp Online
Lexi-Comp is an industry-leading provider of drug information and clinical content for the healthcare industry. We provide the tools necessary to help improve patient safety, ensure compliance, and elevate the quality of care patients receive.
MD Consult
Online access to medical texts, medical journals and news, practice guidelines, drug information, patient education material, CME credit and more.
Medline - EBSCO
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that covers biomedical literature, allied health, and biological and physical sciences. More than 16 million records from 5,200+ journals are indexed; abstracts are included for about 79% of the records. Funding for EBSCO Medline provided by Maine State Library and University of Maine System.
Medline - PubMed
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that covers biomedical literature, allied health, and biological and physical sciences. More than 18 million records from 5,400+ journals are indexed; English abstracts are included for about 82% of the records. PubMed "Quick Tours" Tutorials.
MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series
Evidence based information from Micromedex. This includes unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine needed to make informed clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions.  Includes PDR embedded in product.  INTERNET EXPLORER MUST BE USED TO ACCESS THIS PRODUCT.
NeoFax
NeoFax is designed to help clinicians accurately prescribe, calculate, formulate, and administer essential drugs and parenteral nutrition solutions for infants.  By providing complete neonatal drug information covering more than 180 substances, NeoFax helps reduce medication errors and decreases time spent ordering and compounding.
NOTE: YOU MUST USE INTERNET EXPLORER VERSION 5.0 OR HIGHER TO ACCESS THIS RESOURCE.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is a multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.  ProQuest Central Searching Tips.
SciFinder
SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the Chemical Abstracts Service databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more!

Each user must create their own username and password.  To do so,  you must set this up on campus  using this link. If you are accessing this from off campus, contact us for assistance.  For help see SciFinder Online Tutorials.
Scopus
Scopus is a multidisciplinary navigational tool that contains records going back to the mid 1960s, offering newly-linked citations across the widest body of scientific abstracts available in one place.

Mobile Website
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Catalogs

UNE Libraries online catalog

The following is a listing of selected subject headings relating to Pre-Pharmacy. Each is a live link directly into the UNE Libraries catalog.

There are no subject headings at this time.

If you need a book that is not available through the UNE Libraries catalog, you can request it through MaineCat or ILLiad: Interlibrary Loan.


Reference Sources

Subject specific dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks are a good place to begin your research. They are written by scholars in the field and usually provide definitions, background information, and bibliographies on your topic/s. The following is a general list.

There are no reference sources at this time.


Websites

Web Site Evaluation criteria.

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
American Pharmacists Association
Clinical Trials
HealthWeb: Pharmacy & Pharmacology
Pharmweb
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
U.S. Pharmacopeia


Writing the Paper

Writing the Paper & Style Manuals

For assistance with Pre-Pharmacy research, please contact Beth Dyer at the Portland Campus library, edyer@une.edu, 207-221-4333 or Ask a Librarian.

 
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