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Databases

Databases are online collections of resources; many databases specialise in a specific subject area. You will find relevant research and academic, peer-reviewed sources for pharmacy and pharmaceutical in the databases below.

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Login to LibrarySearch or one of the databases below, then search using keywords that describe your topic. Refine your search results to peer-reviewed journals, books, online books, book chapters or videos.

The following tips will also work in Google Scholar and most databases.

Use OR between words to find any of your keywords.
Group OR words using brackets.
Find "exact phrases" with quotation marks.
Add an asterisk to part of a word to find different endings and plurals.
There is a default AND relationship between search terms separated by a space.

Example searches:

COVID* OR corona* OR SARS-CoV-2
"secondary bacterial pneumonia"
(COVID* OR corona* OR SARS-CoV-2) "secondary bacterial pneumonia"

ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Peer-reviewed, scholarly literature; authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications.
PubMed
Evidence-based medical and biomedical science literature. Select FindIt@RMIT to find full text documents.
Nature (NPG)
Access to publications from the Nature Publishing Group including Nature, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, Nature Reviews.
Cochrane Library
Cochrane database of systematic reviews (CDSR); Database of abstracts of reviews of effectiveness (DARE); Cochrane central register of controlled trials (CENTRAL).
CINAHL Complete with Full Text (EBSCO)
A comprehensive database for nursing & allied health journals, including pharmacy and pharmacology.
Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest)
Reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including pharmacy and pharmacology.
EMBASE (Elsevier)
A comprehensive collection of biomedical and pharmacological journals. Select FindIt@RMIT to find full text documents.
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
International literature related to psychology including psychiatry, medicine, nursing and pharmacology.
TOXLINE (ProQuest)
Access via Biological Science Collection. TOXLINE is produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, covering chemical and pharmaceutical toxicology, mutagens and teratogens. Select FindIt@RMIT to access full text documents.
Scopus (Elsevier)
Peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings. Includes author affiliations, and citation impact. Select FindIt@RMIT to access full text documents.
Scopus AI is an AI-driven research assistant that uses metadata, abstracts, and author profiles from the Scopus database to help you explore new topics.

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JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
JoVE is a peer-reviewed scientific video journal covering biological, medical, chemical and physical research. RMIT has access to JoVE Education Unlimited, which includes:
Basic and advanced biology
Chemistry
Clinical skills
18 topics in the JoVE Core series
4 research journals: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, and Medicine.

Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
Leading scholarly literature in the fields of science and technology. Select FindIt@RMIT to access full text documents.
AMED: Allied and Complementary Medicine Database
AMED is produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library. (3 simultaneous user limit). Select FindIt@RMIT to access full text documents.

ClinicalKey Student Medicine
Ebooks, summaries, images and videos on a wide range of medical topics.

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