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AccessPharmacy This link opens in a new window A curricular resource - select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references.
ASHP eBooks Collection This link opens in a new window ASHP eBooks Library is a source for pharmacy-specific clinical and management information.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window Collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision making.
DynaMed This link opens in a new window A clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care' with clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics.
UpToDate Lexidrug This link opens in a new window Formerly Lexicomp. Reviews the FDA, pharmaceutical industry, and clinical literature, researching the latest findings on drugs, indications, warnings, and interactions.
Micromedex This link opens in a new window
Available only to Pharmacy students and faculty. By logging in you agree that the use of this resource is limited to classroom work. Information obtained during this session will not be used for patient care or other activities outside of classroom assignments.
NatMed Pro This link opens in a new window Combined database containing both Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database. The premiere evidence based complimentary and alternative medicine database. Effectiveness of treatments for various disease states is ranked based on analysis of the primary literature.
PharmacyLibrary This link opens in a new window PharmacyLibrary from American Pharmacists Association (APhA) features content from APhA's authoritative textbooks, an interactive NAPLEX review, case studies, and active learning exercises that focus on a variety of practice skills.
MEDLINE (PubMed) This link opens in a new window National Library of Medicine's free version of Medline
MEDLINE (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Indexes over 4,600 journals in the medical and health sciences. Links to full-text where available.

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AMA Manual of Style This link opens in a new window Contains grammar and citation, abbreviation, and nomenclature for the 10th Edition of the AMA Style format.
CINAHL This link opens in a new window Index of nursing and allied health literature dating back to 1981.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Portal to over 500 highly regarded reference sources. Examples of sources covered include: Art, Business, Food & Beverage, History, Language, Law, Literature, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Social Sciences, and Technology.
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new window A collection of reference works on the Arts, Business, Education, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Religion, and the Social Sciences.

Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes [electronic resource] This book covers the technical, practical and legal aspects that you should consider before prescribing or administering drugs via enteral feeding tubes.
Pediatric Injectable Drugs (The Teddy Bear Book) -

USP-NF -- United States Pharmacopeia National Formulary This link opens in a new window
A book of public pharmacopeial standards. **Note: requires account creation (use your Drake email address) at https://usp.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bEM8pqWOF2tiF7v. Select nonprofit as institution type.
This subscription is provided free of charge by the United States Pharmacopeia for CPHS faculty, staff, and students. Access also includes the USP Dictionary, USP Dietary Supplement Compendium (DSC), and Food Chemical Codex (FCC)
Web of Science This link opens in a new window Comprehensive source for science and interdiscipinary articles. This database is one of the largest indices of important research data, books, journals, proceedings, publications, and patents from multiple and cross disciplinary areas. An umbrella database that encompasses the following databases: Current Contents Connect, Biosis Citation Index (biological life sciences journals), Derwent Innovations Index (patent information), Web of Science, Zoological Record (animal science journals), MEDLINE, Journal Citation Reports (impact factor and other measures), Data Citation Index (large data sets), Book Citation Index (book index), Index Chemicus (chemistry journals), Current Chemical Reactions (chemical reactions information), and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (conference proceeding papers). The Web of Knowledge contains quality resources from the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

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Book Catalog Cowles library's online catalog of books and ebooks.

DSM-5 This link opens in a new window Published by the American Psychiatric Association, it provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is used by mental health professionals worldwide.

E-Value Access to the e-value portfolio system for students, faculty and preceptors.
Experiential Office CPHS's Experiential Office webpage.
InterLibary Loan at Cowles Library Request books and/or journal articles not owned by Cowles Library.
Journals Direct access to Cowles Library's journal collection. Search by title or browse by subject. Electronic journals are available through this link.

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.

Visible Body 3D interactive anatomy, physiology, and pathology visualizations and animations. Note: Requires registration with your Drake email address

PHAR 190, 191, & 192 - Therapeutics Course Series eBook - Pharmacotherapy: Principles and Practice - 5th and 6th editions

Pharmacotherapy: Principles and Practice - 5th edition by Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, Terry L. Schwinghammer, Patrick M. Malone, Jill M. Kolesar, Kelly C. Lee, P. Brandon Bookstaver
ISBN: 9781260019445
Publication Date: 2019-01-03
Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice - 6th edition by Marie A. Chisholm-Burns; Terry L. Schwinghammer; Patrick M. Malone; Jill M. Kolesar; Kelly C. Lee; P. Brandon Bookstaver
ISBN: 9781260460278
Publication Date: 2022-03-10

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