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.
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.
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.
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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.
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource for use at the point-of-care. More than 6,000 world-renowned physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesise the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality.
UpToDate is now available to ALL students off-campus through the student desktop. To connect to the desktop from off campus, go to www.otago.ac.nz/studentdesktop.
You can find links to UpToDate on either the Databases list http://www.otago.ac.nz/library/databases/results.php?letter=u, or in this guide on the Journals & Databases page http://otago.libguides.com/pharmacy.
