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Pharmacy Research Guide
This guide provides an introduction to research and to the wide variety of pharmaceutical and drug related resources which are available through our library.
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Journals Full Text
AMA Citations
Calculations Resources
Chemistry
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Resources
Data Sets
Data Management
Databases for Pharmacy
E-Books for Pharmacy
Evidence-based Practice
Medical Marijuana and Cannabinoids
Mobile Apps
Rotation Resources
Test Preparation Resources
Toxicology
Web Sites and Pharmaceutical Associations
Pharmacogenomics
All Databases A-Z
NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH
Patient Education
Writing Templates
Pharmacy Management
Using Google Scholar
WELCOME
Pharmaceutical Research can be a complicated process. This guide provides varied strategies and resources which lead to evidence based data. The sources of the materials are diverse; both clinical and research venues are included.
If you would like to recommend a resource that you do not see here, please email rkrzanowski@usj.edu. We would welcome your feedback.
Find a book or e-book
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Course Reserve Desk
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Interlibrary Loan Desk
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Helpful University Links
Pope Pius XII Library Home Page
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Provides access to library resources and services.
Pope Pius XII Library Encore Catalog
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Provides information on library books, including Ebooks, and videos.
Pope Pius XII Library Databases
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Link to listing of databases that primarily contain journal citations and full text articles.
Pope Pius XII Library Interlibrary Loan
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Link to Interlibrary Loan policies and forms.
Pope Pius XII Library Study Room Booking
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Students may reserve one of three rooms for group or single study.
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Help with Writing
University of Saint Joseph Center for Academic Excellence
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You can book time with a writing tutor who specializes in graduate-level work. This site also provides numerous handouts on APA format, grammar, etc.
Does USJ have Journal of Bowling Pins?
You may find a citation in a bibliography or a database that doesn't have the full text attached. If you are in a USJ database, you may see a button that says Find at USJ or Full Text Finder. If not, to find a journal using a citation, search the journal through Publication Finder. Here is a shortcut. Use the JOURNAL title (example: Journal of Bowling Pins), NOT the article title (example: DON'T search "Controlled Trial of Nylon vs. Syrlin in Pin Coatings.")
You can also search e-book titles or ISBNs here.
When the citation comes up, you should see either a link to a USJ database or a link for the interlibrary loan request form that will auto-complete with the citation.
Note: There is no Journal of Bowling Pins, at least not yet. I checked.
If USJ does
not
subscribe and you did not see a link to request an interlibrary loan (ILL), search the article title or author in the box below. (This feature is still under construction.)
When the citation comes up, you should see a link for the ILL form that will auto-complete with the citation.
If USJ does NOT subscribe and you did NOT see a link to request an interlibrary loan, click here.
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This link sends you to the blank ILL form. You will need to complete it with the citation information (title, author, journal, etc.)
USJ Library Hours
Library Hours:
*Hours may change depending upon University holidays or other circumstances.  Please call the library at 860.231.5209 or email the
circulation desk
with any questions.
Best Bets for Pharmacy
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Electronic Textbooks and Reference Books
Access Medicine, McGraw-Hill
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This comprehensive medical resource provides a complete spectrum of knowledge from the best minds in medicine. Contains more than 100 leading medical textbooks, including the latest editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, and an extensive multimedia library. App available.
Training Videos
: These videos, provided by AccessMedicine, demonstrate in short clips the following features: Human Anatomy Modules, Federated Search, The Hospital Corner, Basic Search, Advanced Search, How to Download Images, Drugs, Resetting your MyAccess password, Patient Handouts, Flash and Show, Diagnosaurus, Chapter Task Bar, 2 Minute Medicine, and Advanced Search Function.
Access Pharmacy, McGraw-Hill
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This comprehensive, content-rich online pharmacy resource allows users to explore leading pharmacy references, search curriculum topics, research drugs and supplements. Contains leading pharmacy textbooks such as DiPiro’s Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, Lange Basic & Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists. Instant access to videos, games, Q&A, and leading pharmacy textbooks. Updated regularly and optimized for viewing on any device,
These videos, provided by AccessPharmacy, demonstrate in short video clips the following features: Federated Search, How do I download multiple images, Basic Search, Advanced Search, Patient Ed, Finding the casebook Instructor's Guide, Herbs and Supplements, Topics in Evidence-based pharmacy practice, Drugs, Resetting your MyAccess password, and How/why to create a MyAccess profile :
Training Videos
DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy: a Pathophysiologic Approach, 13th Edition
by
Stuart T. Haines; Thomas D. Nolin; Vicki Ellingrod; Jennifer COCOHOBA; Lisa M. HOLLE; L. Michael Posey
ISBN: 9781265463984
Publication Date: 2026-04-15
The #1 Textbook in Pharmacotherapy, providing optimal patient outcomes using evidence-based medication therapies--updated with the latest advances and guidelines For over three decades, DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy has served as the fundamental resource for understanding how to accurately select, administer, and monitor drugs--covering all necessary aspects of safe and effective drug treatment in all therapeutic realms. This thirteenth edition of the authoritative pharmacotherapy text has been fully updated with the latest evidence-based information and recommendations. Featuring insights from 300 expert contributors, the text presents thorough explanations of both common and rare medical conditions, discussing treatments that include both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches. Each disease chapter begins with the Patient Care Process, guiding readers to grasp the teamwork model in which pharmacists collaborate and communicate with other healthcare professionals for efficient coordinated care. Presented in full color, the book facilitates the provision of superior patient care through evidence-based medication therapy grounded in robust pharmacotherapeutic principles.  Here's why DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach is the perfect learning tool for students, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers: *    All chapters provide the most current, reliable, and relevant information available *    Key concepts are included at the beginning of each chapter *    NEW chapters on Foundations of Sexual and Gender Health and Gender-affirming Therapy *    Extensively updated chapters on Chronic Heart Failure, Evaluation of Renal Function, and Obesity *    Key Resource Box with links to clinical practice guidelines, patient education materials, and landmark clinical trials related to each chapter's content *    Clinical Presentation boxes concisely outline disease signs and symptoms *    Beyond the Book feature points you to multimedia resources to deepen their understanding of the material *    Diagnostic flow diagrams, treatment algorithms, dosing guideline recommendations, and monitoring approaches clearly distinguish treatment pathways *    Patient Care process boxes help you communicate more effectively with other health care providers
APhA Pharmacy eBook Library
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(For full access to self-assessments, create a free account within the database.) Our subscription provides full text content to APhA's authoritative pharmacy textbooks, an interactive NAPLEX® review, a collection of 250 Active Learning Exercises, PCOA self-assessment, case studies, article abstracts from the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, and a variety of news sources.
Includes:
1. Text books -- over 30 textbooks, spanning the pharmacy curriculum
2. PharmacotherapyFirst: An innovative, digital-only, peer-reviewed resource focused on disease state management and patient care. It is founded on the proposition that learning therapeutics is more than about memorization and cramming for exams. Designed to teach therapeutics to the modern learner, it incorporates concise evidence-based content, assessment tools, and instructor resources
3. Case Studies
4. Active Learning Exercises: a collection of more than 250 practice skills activities categorized in 11 broad curricular content areas designed for use in a variety of teaching environments
5. NAPLEX® Review: an interactive exam center designed to make preparing for the NAPLEX® easy
6. News from APhA: keep current with professional news and clinical updates with a feed of the most current news from Pharmacist.com, APhA DrugInfoLine, and Pharmacy Today.
APhA OTC: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care
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Based on Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs, this is the primary resource used for the OTC products taught in the patient care pharmacy practice course series.
ASHP eBook Collection
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This database of pharmacy ebooks, published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, provides full text, fully electronic access to over 80 books.
Note: if unable to connect, please try switching browsers (Mozilla Firefox instead of Chrome).
To download e-pubs from this collection, you may need to install Adobe DIgital Editions (free) on your computer or device.
Titles include: Pharmacy Calculations: An Introduction for Pharmacy Technicians, Get the Residency, Letters from Rising Pharmacy Stars, NICU Primer for Pharmacists, and Pediatric Injectable Drugs: The Teddy Bear Book, and more!
Drug Databases
Clinical Pharmacology, Elsevier
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Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey is a drug reference that supports healthcare professionals in making sound medication decisions by providing fast access to the most current, accurate and clinical relevant drug information. For School of Pharmacy only. Includes Harriet Lane Handbook. App available.
Lexidrug + 5MinuteConsult -- formerly known as Lexicomp
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Provides clear, concise, point-of-care drug information, including dosing, administration, warnings and precautions, as well as clinical content, such as clinical practice guidelines, IV compatibility from Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database, and other tools. See also
5-Minute Consult
The new Rapid Sequence Intubation (adult and pediatric) calculator is now available for use through Lexidrug online. This tool provides clinicians with the drug and dosing information needed for rapid intubation, calculated specifically for their patient. You can access our available calculators by clicking on calculators in the menu bar.
Micromedex
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Micromedex® is more than a drug database. The robust evidence-based solutions and resources help inform clinical decisions throughout the patient care continuum, helping clinicians to enhance patient safety and drive better outcomes for patients. Includes new mobile app with consolidated access to Drug Reference, Drug Interactions, IV Compatibility, NeoFax®, Pediatrics, calculators and more.
USP-NF (SOP)
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The United States Pharmacopeia and The National Formulary (USP–NF) is a book of public pharmacopeial standards. It contains standards for (chemical and biological drug substances, dosage forms, and compounded preparations), excipients, medical devices, and dietary supplements. USP is no longer providing authentication by IP, so you will need so sign up for an account.
If this is your first time using this database you will need to
set up an account here
Video Tutorial
- Setting up your Access Point on USP.
U.S. Pharmacopeia - how to set up an account
USJ has an institutional account with U.S. Pharmacopeia. Each user must set up an individual account. Follow the link and the instructions in this guide.
Journal Articles
MEDLINE with Full Text, EBSCO
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MEDLINE with Full Text provides the authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, psychology, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences found on MEDLINE, plus the database provides full text for more than 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, nearly all have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. And of those, 558 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source, or Biomedical Reference Collection. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
MEDLINE with Full Text instructional video
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Search medical journals, limit to full text, combine terms and get articles.
PubMed
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PubMed comprises citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and some online books. *Note: Use this link for full text access to the library's subscriptions.
Menu of short training videos from US National Library of Medicine NIH
PubMed User Guide
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Point of Care Resources
DynaMed, EBSCO
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A peer-reviewed, point-of-care database for diagnosis, treatment and drug information. Updated multiple times daily. Mobile app available. Comparable to UptoDate.
Access Medicine, McGraw-Hill
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This comprehensive medical resource provides a complete spectrum of knowledge from the best minds in medicine. Contains more than 100 leading medical textbooks, including the latest editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, and an extensive multimedia library. App available.
Training Videos
: These videos, provided by AccessMedicine, demonstrate in short clips the following features: Human Anatomy Modules, Federated Search, The Hospital Corner, Basic Search, Advanced Search, How to Download Images, Drugs, Resetting your MyAccess password, Patient Handouts, Flash and Show, Diagnosaurus, Chapter Task Bar, 2 Minute Medicine, and Advanced Search Function.
Nomenclature
The evolution of a pharmaceutical compound from the laboratory to the formulary usually involves an eight to fifteen year time period during which a substance may be refered to in the literarure under at least seven different names. To find information on a single compound you may have to look under many names because as new names are assigned no one goes back and provides cross referencing or re-indexes the previous citations.
It is important to realize that you may miss relevant information because it is indexed under a different name.
Drugs first appear in the Chemical and Biochemical Literature. Here they are given Chemical Names which specify their molecular structure, Laboratory Codes, or CAS Registry Numbers. Patents, conference presentations and basic science journals are the prime sources of information at this stage.
Later, when the initial screening is completed, animal studies may be ongoing and the drug undergoes preclinical evaluation of its pharmacological and therapeutic activity as well as its toxicity. Eventually it is certified for human testing, and generic names are assigned. The World Health Organization assigns an INN or International Nonproprietary Name and the United States Pharmacopeia assigns the USAN or United States Adopted Name. These two names may not be the same. You will most likely find this type of information in the Biological Literature, through Conference Presentations, and in Journal Articles.
Eventually a new drug is ready for marketing and the Food and Drug Administration will approve a brand name thru a NDA or New Drug Application or a MAA Market Authorization Application. At this point information is available in the Clinical Literature, Business Sources, and PubMed. The Generic, Brand, or Trade Name may be used. To search completely use them all.
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