Pharmacology and Toxicology: Journals & Databases
Your toolkit guide to recommended resources for Pharmacology and Toxicology
Some key databases for Pharmacology & Toxicology
Some key Health Sciences databases are listed below.
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- AccessNeurology This link opens in a new windowAccessNeurology provides access to authoritative, trusted, and current information on neurology and neuroscience reference, research, and teaching. Including:
• Kandel’s Principles of Neural Science, 6th ed.
• Adams and Victor’s Principles of Neurology, 11th ed.
• Clinical Neuroanatomy, 29th ed.
• DeMyer’s The Neurological Examination: A Programmed Text, 7th ed.
- PubMedCovers biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Date range 1960+
- SciFinder (CAS)First time users must register (see entry below). This comprehensive database for chemical reactions, substances, structures and indexed chemistry patents includes journal abstracts, patents and other literature references on all areas of science and its applications.
2023 - now contains CAS Analytical Methods and CAS Formulus
- SciFinder (registration) This link opens in a new windowFirst-time users must register at this site before accessing ScFinder.
- ScopusMultidisciplinary sciences coverage. Incorporates the ScienceDirect e-journals collection. Date range 1960 onward
- Web Of Science All DatabasesSearch across all subscribed Web of Science databases: Web of Science Core Collection; BIOSIS Citation Index; Current Contents Connect; Inspec; KCI-Korean Journal Database; MEDLINE; Russian Science Citation Index; SciELO Citation Index; and, Zoological Record.
- Embase This link opens in a new windowA major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals.
- Medline (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowDate range 1947 onwards. Premier literature database for medicine, nursing, dentistry, and the preclinical sciences.
- ToxlineThis NLM database, provides literature on toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants and mutagens and teratogens.
- Biological Science Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowThe Biological Science Database provides wide coverage of biological science fields including animal behavior, aquatic life and fisheries, chemoreception, biochemistry, ecology, plant science, toxicology, virology, microbiology, immunology genetics, health and safety science, oncogenes, entomology, and endocrinology neuroscience. The resource also includes access to MEDLINE, and the ability to cross-search over 30 abstract and citation databases.
Content includes: scholarly and trade journals, conference papers and proceedings, books, magazines & newspapers, government & official publications, reports, tables, working papers, video & audio.
- AccessPharmacyAn online curricular resource designed for pharmacy education. This database offers access to: Textbooks; Quick Reference; Multimedia library; Drug therapy cases; Self-assessment; Topics in Evidence-Based Pharmacy Practice; Integrated drug database.
- Global Health This link opens in a new windowCABI Global Health contains the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database and human health and diseases information extracted from CAB Abstracts, covering public health, environmental science, disease transmission and more, from 1910.
- USP-NF Online This link opens in a new window
- USP-NF Online - Registration This link opens in a new windowFirst time users of USP-NF must register with their @student.otago.ac.nz or @otago.ac.nz email address, using this link. Please email eresources.library@otago.ac.nz to request the Subscription Key.