Literature Databases
Literature databases provide access to scholarly, popular, and proprietary literature relating to drug therapy, drug development, economic and policy issues relating to drugs, results from clinical trials, and related information.
- PubMed@USC This link opens in a new windowSearch over 19 million citations to biomedical literature.
- International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowWorldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and practice literature. Includes coverage of drug development, pharmacoeconomics, toxicity, regulation, and technology.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary collection of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Collection of seven online database: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Index Chemicus, Current Chemical Reactions, and Book Citation Index. Coverage is 1900-present.
- MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowAccess to MEDLINE database through Ovid. Citations to articles related to clinical and research information in the bio-medical sciences. Coverage ranges from 1946-present.
- Embase This link opens in a new windowEmbase provides access to over more than 29 million citations for biomedical articles and conference proceedings. This version has been customized for USC users to find the full-text of articles from library holdings.
Evidence-Based Clinical Databases
Evidence-based clinical databases provide summarized, graded evidence to inform clinical practice.
Exact coverage varies by database, but generally includes overviews of diseases and clinical guidelines.
- UpToDate This link opens in a new windowAn evidence-based resource covering multiple medical specialties. Includes topic monographs, patient education, practice updates, drug interactions, guidelines, and medical calculators. To obtain CME, create a personal profile and log in.
- 5 Minute Consult This link opens in a new windowEvidence-based monographs on diseases, drugs, procedures, and laboratory tests. Includes patient handouts on drugs, aftercare, and physical therapy exercises. Combines access to all contents of the "5 Minute Consult" book series.
- Essential Evidence Plus & AHFS DI EssentialsContinually updated, this source provides overviews of diseases and treatments.
eBook Collections
The Library owns many other ebooks and books; to find additional titles, search the Norris Library Catalog below, or contact the library for help.
- AccessPharmacy This link opens in a new windowTextbooks, drug monographs, quizzes, flashcards, videos, cases, and calculators, selected for relevance to Pharmacy education.
- LWW Health Library- Premium Pharmacy Collection This link opens in a new windowCollection of textbooks, audio and video clips, cases, and self-assessments focused on pharmacy education.
- PharmacyLibrary This link opens in a new windowCollection of textbooks, self-quizzes, and case studies from American Pharmacists Association (APhA).
- AccessMedicine This link opens in a new windowA collection of health sciences textbooks; features fully integrated links to Gold Standard's Clinical Pharmacology drug database.
- Thieme MedOne Education This link opens in a new windowCollection of medical and scientific ebooks and online full-color atlases with drawings, photos, and illustrations of the human body and biological processes.