Pharmacy: Home

About this guide

This Guide brings together important research resources for Pharmacy. These include databases & journals, major clinical and drug reference works, and other key sources. Different types of resources are available via the navigation bar, above.

Check out the special Go-to-Clinical Resources toolkit, by condition.

For further assistance with finding research materials, please contact Thelma Fisher, Subject Librarian for Pharmacy.

Featured resources

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.

ClinicalKey is designed to provide physicians with fast, clinically-relevant answers from Elsevier’s enormous library of proprietary medical and surgical content including over 1200 books, 600 journals (including The Clinics of North America), thousands of videos, practice guidelines, drug information and patient education handouts, along with millions of images.

Recommended new books for Pharmacy

Featured resource: British Pharmacopoeia

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.

Services for Distance Students

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.