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AccessMedicine* Includes online resources, such as Goodman and Gilman"s, drug monographs, and other pharmacology resources.
AccessPharmacy
AHFS Drug Information Must create a personal account with your UCI email. AHFS Drug Information® contains the most dependable drug information available—all in one place. It is the most comprehensive evidence-based source of drug information complete with therapeutic guidelines and off-label uses.
APhA Pharmacy Library PharmacyLibrary features APhA's authoritative textbooks, PharmacotherapyFirst, interactive self-assessments, more than 250 Active Learning Exercises easily adaptable for a variety of educational settings, case studies, and information from a variety of news sources.
Clinical Pharmacology* A comprehensive drug reference that supports healthcare professionals in making sound medication decisions by providing the fastest access to the most current, accurate and clinically relevant drug information.
Dietary Supplements Designed to limit search results to citations from a broad spectrum of dietary supplement literature including vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, ergogenic, botanical, and herbal supplements in human nutrition and animal models. The subset will retrieve dietary supplement-related citations on topics including, but not limited to: chemical composition; biochemical role and function — both in vitro and in vivo; clinical trials; health and adverse effects; fortification; traditional Chinese medicine and other folk/ethnic supplement practices; cultivation of botanical products used as dietary supplements; as well as, surveys of dietary supplement use.
DynaMed Provides useful information for health care professionals to support clinical decision-making.
LWW Health Library - Pharmacy
Merck Index * "An encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals that contains more than 10,000 monographs. Each monograph in this authoritative reference source is a concise description of a single substance or a small group of closely related compounds."
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Micromedex Healthcare Series *
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database *
NLM Drug Information Portal for Health Professionals National Library of Medicine. Includes information on: Medicare Prescription Plan, Buying Medicines Online, Clinical Trials, Specialized PubMed Searches, Prescription Drug Abuse, Prescription Drug Advertising, Prescription Drug Labeling.
The Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations.
Pharmacist's Letter *
PubChem PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Open” means that you can put your scientific data in PubChem and that others may use it. Since the launch in 2004, PubChem has become a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public. Each month our website and programmatic services provide data to several million users worldwide. PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. We collect information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others.
RxList Owned and Operated by WebMD and part of the WebMD network. An online medical resource dedicated to offering detailed and current pharmaceutical information on brand and generic drugs.
UpToDate - Drug Information * Includes: Practice Changing UpDates, What's new in drug therapy, General drug information, International drug information, Natural drug information, Patient drug information, Pediatric drug information.
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USP Reference Standards USP currently offers more than 3,500 Reference Standards—highly characterized specimens of drug substances, excipients, food ingredients, impurities, degradation products, dietary supplements, compendial reagents and performance calibrators. USP Reference Standards are specified for use in conducting official USP–NF tests and assays. USP also provides Reference Standards specified in the Food Chemicals Codex as well as authentic substances—high-quality chemical samples—as a service to analytical, clinical, pharmaceutical and research laboratories.
World Health Organization: Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies Includes: Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy; Medicine Access and Rational Use; Traditional, Complementary and Herbal Medicine; Quality and Safety.

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