Pharmacy
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Key journal databases
CINAHL Selected Full Text
CINAHL meets the information needs of nurses and allied health professionals.
EMBASE
EMBASE abstracts the latest scientific developments in biomedical and pharmacological science.
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LWW Journals@Ovid Full Text
The Lippincott Williams & Wilkins journals offer access to the latest medical research.
MD Consult Journals
Access to over 50 medical journals.
MEDLINE (ProQuest)
MEDLINE contains over 6 million citations and abstracts, providing unparalleled access to worldwide biomedical literature. ProQuest Help
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Online resources
Access Pharmacy Full Text
Access Pharmacy is an collection of texts designed to meet the needs of pharmacy students.
CNMD
Comprehensive Natural Medicines Database
Cochrane Library Full Text
The Cochrane Library covers evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health care.
FirstConsult
Access to authoritative, evidence-based, point-of-care clinical content.
LactMed
A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.
Lange Educational Library Full Text
The Library provides access to a range of texts in pharmacology, microbiology, physiology, epidemiology and pathology. It also includes a self-review tool and 50 clinical case files to test your knowledge.
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MD Consult Full Text
MD Consult provides up-to-date answers to clinical questions and the full-text of over 40 medical reference books and over 50 medical journals. It also includes access to MEDLINE, comprehensive drug information, more than 1000 peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines, and over 3,500 customisable patient education handouts.
Medicines Complete Full Text
Medicines Complete includes a range of titles of importance to Pharmacy students. These include Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons, Stockley's Herbal Medicine Interactions, Merck Index.
Micromedex Drug identification and interaction. MICROMEDEX provides authoritative information on chemical, pharmaceutical, and related biological substances used in clinical patient care. Contents include drug reviews, usage guidelines,clinical reviews, information from package inserts and texts on pharmacology, as well as information teratogenicity, toxicology and drugs used in alternative medicine. Individual titles include AltMedDex, DrugDex and Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference.
Prescribing medicines in pregnancy database
This database provides information to health professionals planning the medical management of pregnant patients or patients intending to become pregnant.
Reference works
British Pharmacopeia Full Text
The British Pharmacopoeia is the official collection of standards for UK medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances.
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Drug information: A guide for pharmacists
Encyclopedia of toxicology
Goodman & Gilman's:The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
Harrison’s Online Full Text
Harrison's Online includes the complete contents of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition. AccessMedicine Help
Martindale - the complete drug reference.
Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy
MIMS Online 
Full Text
MIMS Online provides electronic access to the full MIMS database of information on prescription and non-prescription drugs available in Australia. Includes full colour pictures of over 2,300 tablets and capsules.
Pharmaceutical Sciences Encyclopedia
Pharmacotherapy: a pathophysiologic approach - DiPiro
Stockley's Drug Interactions
xPharm: The Comprehensive Pharmacology Reference
Recommended journals
AJP Australian Journal of Pharmacy
Australian Pharmacist
Australian Prescriber
BMJ British Medical Journal
Drug Safety
International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
Journal of Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics
Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research Official journal of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
Lancet
NEMJ New England Journal Medicinal Journal
Guidelines
eTG complete - (Therapeutic Guidelines) 
Full Text
Provides access to Therapeutic Guidelines and Developmental Disability titles.
Pharmacy Board of Australia - Codes and Guidelines
Approved codes and guidelines for the profession.
Web sites and internet resources
Medicines safety update providing practical information and advice on drug safety and information about emerging safety issues.
NPS News providing health professionals with succinct, independent information on therapeutic topics.
NPS Radar independent, evidence-based assessment of new drugs, new PBS listings and the latest research for doctors, pharmacists and other health professionals.
PBS - Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
PGA - Pharmacy Guild of Australia
PSA - Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
SHPA - Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
TGA - Therapuetic Goods Administration
VetsMATES - Department of Veterans' Affairs
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