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Key resource with variety of content

AccessPharmacy (McGraw Hill Medical) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive resource: includes key textbooks, study tools, NAPLEX practice tests, drug monographs, patient education topics in pdf's, and more.
Users can create individual accounts for customizing content.

Includes 2022 books: Basic Concepts in Pharmacology and Top 300 Pharmacy Drug Cards.

AccessMedicine (McGraw Hill Medical) This link opens in a new window
From the basics to specialty-specific content,with more than 50 medical books, including manuals and handbooks which can be downloaded to a mobile device.
- What this includes: Textbooks, self-assessments, practice guidelines, videos, a drug database, patient cases.

Medications, Interactions Resources

Subscription and web based databases containing drug monographs, calculation tools and more can be found in the

drug/medications tab on this guide.

More may be added throughout the year.

Please pay attention to the license agreements for each one as each my vary.

Misinformation and Meds

"The scramble to control COVID-19 will stir up misinformation about meds and supplements," wrote the providers of the Pharmacist's Letter. Misinformation is an ongoing problem in many areas. Taking the time to evaluate sources and check facts is essential.

See the Pharmacist's Letter for coverage on COVID-19 Drug Misinformation.
JAMA Viewpoint: Addressing Medical Misinformation in the Patient-Clinician Relationship

Non-prescription

BOOK:

Nonprescription Drugs Quick Reference by Cortney Mospan (Editor); Miranda Wilhelm (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781582122915
Publication Date: 2019
Single User License
Some downloadable content

Literature Resources

PubMed (NU customized) This link opens in a new window
PubMed® comprises 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.
This link connects to NU full text options, NU login required.

Want to know more about how to use PubMed? This tutorial "Getting Started with PubMed" should help.

A note on Medline, MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains millions of references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Medline can be accessed through a variety of platforms including PubMed, EBSCOhost, Proquest and others.

Embase (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
covers international biomedical literature, includes "grey literature": from conference abstracts, non-English content from important types of evidence such as RCT's and Cochrane reviews.
Embase includes unique non-English content and coverage of the most important types of evidence, such as randomized controlled trials, controlled clinical trials, Cochrane reviews and meta-analyses.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
An index to worldwide pharmaceutical literature, with abstracts from health journals, major pharmacy meetings, and all U.S. state pharmacy journals.
Covers biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics, new drug delivery systems, pharmacist liability, and legal, political, and ethical issues.
Web of Science, All Databases This link opens in a new window
collection of journals, books and conference proceedings with broad science coverage. A great resource for discovering works that cite others.
Northeastern's subscription includes:Web of Science Core Collection (Arts and humanities, social sciences and Science Citation indexes)
Biosis Citation Index
Biosis Previews
Current Contents Connect
Data Citation Index
Derwent Innovations Index
KCI-Korean Journal Database
Medline
SciELO Citation Index
Biosis Citation Index This link opens in a new window
An expansive index to life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.
All Biosis Previews journals are indexed in Biosis Citation Index. However, Biosis Citation Index has additional citation data and is therefore more comprehensive than Biosis Previews.

Biosis Citation Index also has cited references captured back to 2006 for all Biosis Citation Index-indexed titles and cited references captured back to 1926 for Web of Science overlap journals.
SciFinder-n (CAS) This link opens in a new window
Link takes you to a guide overview of how to use SciFinder.
Search journal articles from Chemical Abstracts and Medline, the CAS Registry, chemical reactions, predicted and experimental properties, synthetic preparations, and patents.

Chemistry

PubChem (NCBI) This link opens in a new window
A free web resource of chemical information. This version contains links to Northeastern-subscribed journals which require a login.
Like PubMed, this database contains freely available information; however this version includes Northeaster-customized links.
SciFinder-n (CAS) This link opens in a new window
SciFinder-n provides access to the worlds most comprehensive and reliable collection of scientific research information, including millions of records and up-to-date patent and chemical information curated and aggregated by a global network of expert scientists. For assistance setting up an account and searching see our Scifinder-n page.
American Chemical Society Publications This link opens in a new window
Select scholarly, peer-reviewed journals and professional news from the American Chemical Society.

BOOK:

Burger's Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery, and Development, Set by David P. Rotella (Editor); Donald J. Abraham (Editor)
ISBN: 9780471266945
Please note there is a newer version of this title that we do not have access to at this time.

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Ending an Epidemic: Opioid use and the spread of illicit fentanyl continue to pose a risk to public health. Pharmacy schools are working to educate students and the public about substance use disorder, reduce stigma and encourage communities to embrace harm-reduction strategies.