Library Research Guides: Pharmacy Preceptors: Home

Free Databases

Drugs@FDA
Search FDA for drug labels, therapeutic equivalents (orange book information), recalls, approval history and more.
ePocrates Online
Free access to drug information monographs (not as detailed as subscription version)
Medscape
Professional focus, medical content with CME, expert opinions, drug information, summaries of key data and presentations from major medical meetings, and free email newsletters.
PubChem
Search all of the National Library of Medicine’s resources – package insert information (Daily Med), clinical trials (www.clinicaltrials.gov), use in breastfeeding (LactMed) and more.
WHO drug information
World Health Organization website of factsheets, guidelines, specific drugs and topics such as antimicrobial resistance.

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Journal Club

Journal Club Template

Pharmacy Databases

The Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy provides preceptors with access to AccessPharmacy and PharmacyLibrary. Contact the Drug Information Center at druginformation@lipscomb.edu for a username and password.

Access Pharmacy
Provides access to leading pharmacy reference materials, illustrated textbooks (read-aloud option), infographics, multimedia, interactive self-assessment study tools, drug therapy cases, and drug databases with dosing information, adverse reactions, and more.
- Reminder: Remote access times out 90 days. You'll need to log into the database while on campus to reactivate remote access.
Permitted Uses:
Creating a Personal Account Is: Optional (it unlocks features)
APhA Pharmacy Library
Features content from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA)'s authoritative textbooks, an interactive NAPLEX review, case studies, article abstracts from the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, and a variety of news sources.
- Creating a Personal Account Is: Optional (it unlocks features)
Pharmacist's Letter
Pharmacist’s Letter is a trade magazine with evidence-based drug therapy recommendations written for pharmacists along with CE/CME Training. (Student Pharmacists, please see RxSelect: Student Pharmacist.)
- Access is limited specific user group: Faculty Only
- Creating a personal account is: Required
  - For instructions to create your User Account, and learn what you'll have access to, click here.
PubMed*
Contains more than 35 million citations and abstracts for biomedical and life sciences literature.
PubMed links to full-text when they are available.
PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
RxSelect: Student Pharmacist (formerly part of Pharmacist's Letter)
Pharmacist's Letter was split into two platforms. RxSelect: Student Pharmacist is how students access content curated directly from Pharmacist’s Letter & required Training Courses. (Faculty See Pharmacist's Letter.)
- Creating a personal account is: Required
  - For instructions to create your User Account, and learn what you'll have access to, click here.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
ScienceDirect
Contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
This collection includes journals from the health, life and social science fields of: nursing, medicine, dentistry, biology, biochemistry, environmental sciences, toxicology, pharmacology, immunology, neuroscience, arts & humanities, business. accounting, psychology and cognitive sciences, social sciences, economics, decision sciences, forensic science and more.
USP–NF Online
A combination of 3 compendia, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), National Formulary (NF), and the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC). Also includes USP Compounding for pharmaceuticals. Create an account with your Lipscomb email address.
All students must create their own Access Point account by clicking here. You do not need a subscription key, but you must use your Lipscomb email address in order to gain access.