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This Guide brings together important research resources for Pharmacy. These include databases & journals, major reference works, and other key sources.
Different types of resources are available via the navigation bar, above.
For further assistance with finding research materials, please contact Thelma Fisher, Subject Librarian for Pharmacy.
Students on placement, and other postgraduates based outside of Dunedin are eligible to use the free Services for Distance Students, to receive books and articles by post or email.
For help using Library resources and searching the research literature, please contact your Subject Librarian, Thelma Fisher.
Sites with clinical information on Covid-19:
There is information available on the NZ Ministry of Health web site and the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment has developed a database of New Zealand research on Covid-19.
LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to relevant articles in PubMed.
DynaMed and BMJ Best Practice have information pages about COVID-19 (the disease caused by the virus now known as SARS-CoV-2). Elsevier's Covid-19 Hub has gathered some front-line clinical tools and resources to help you deliver excellent care and information to your patients.
A review article, which will be updated weekly, has been published on PubMed.
There is further information available from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization and the OECD
Johns Hopkins University in the US provides a very useful map showing the global spread of COVID-19.
Digital Science is supporting the global research effort by providing all relevant content on COVID-19 from their application Dimensions as a single export file, updated daily, to make sharing and distributing research information easier. The file is openly available as a csv file hosted on Figshare
A clinical reference and image tool that represents the best available evidence drawn from medical journals and systematic evidence review databases. Updated daily. Browse by topic or search by keywords. Sign in so you can 'Follow' alerts to Topic updates.
A clinical decision support tool for health professionals that provides access to the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion in a single source. BMJ Best Practice includes differential diagnosis tables, treatment algorithms, videos of common clinical procedures, integrated evidence from Cochrane Clinical Answers, over 250 medical calculators and more.
CCA (via OVID or Wiley) provides a readable, digestible, clinically focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane systematic reviews. The content is designed to be actionable and to inform decision making at the point of care.
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The BP is a vital online reference tool for all individuals and organisations involved in pharmaceutical research, development, manufacture, quality control and analysis. Content from BP 2014- is included.
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