Guides: Pharmacology and therapeutics: Finding articles

Find out about accessing the Library's online resources from on and off campus and requesting items not in the Library collection through Interlibrary Loan.

Core databases

Core databases for finding articles

BIOSIS Citation Index (Web of Science)
Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Access content from journals, meetings, patents, and books. Backfiles available to 1926.
Embase Classic + Embase (Ovid)
An international biomedical and pharmacological database that provides access to up-to-date information about medical, allied health, and drug-related subjects.

Embase Classic 1947-1973.
PubMed (McGill)
Free access to bibliographic information from MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, other non-indexed citations, and NCBI Books.
Scopus (Elsevier)
Multidisciplinary. Provides citation counts, h-index, and patent searching.
Web of Science Core Collection (All Indexes)
Multidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research

Includes Citation Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (1990-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (1990-present), Book Citation Index– Science (2005-present), Book Citation Index– Social Sciences & Humanities (2005-present), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present). Chemical Indexes include: Current Chemical Reactions (1985-present, plus Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle structure data back to 1840), and Index Chemicus (1993-present).

Additional databases

Additional databases for finding articles

Cochrane Library
A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (ProQuest)
This database provides a comprehensive collection of information on drug use and development. Coverage: 1970-current.
Library can facilitate negotiating text-mining rights for this database for McGill faculty and students wishing to acquire the rights with their own research funds. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub
SciFinder
TOXLINE (ProQuest)
A bibliographic database with an assortment of citations from specialized journals and other sources. It provides references covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice)
A clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. In addition to research evidence, other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news

Theses and dissertations

eScholarship - McGill theses

McGill's open access institutional repository. Includes theses and dissertations, articles, conference proceedings, books and more.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text

International in scope, contains millions of works from thousands of universities. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.

OAIster

A database of open access resources that allows you to search multiple archives at once. Set the Content option to Theses/Dissertations to limit the search.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations

Theses Canada

A collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and nearly 70 Canadian universities.

Check out the Theses and Dissertations Guide for more information, including finding theses by geographical region.

Drug databases

PharmGKB -Pharmacogenomics resource
DrugBank - Open data drug and drug target database

Other resources and guides

Clinical Trials - Registry of public and private clinical studies
Drug Information Resources - A useful drug and health guide for pharmacists and other health care professionals

Methods and techniques

These resources contain specific lab methods and techniques, often including information about the equipment and ingredients needed.

Bio-protocol

Bio-protocol publishes high quality step-by-step peer-reviewed protocols in any area of life sciences. To limit redundancy, Bio-protocol does not publish protocols detailed in other protocol journals.

BioTechniques

A peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to publishing original laboratory methods, related technical tools, and methods-oriented review articles that are of broad interest to professional life scientists.

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

An interdisciplinary journal providing a definitive source of research methods in cell, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and imaging.

Nature Methods

Publishes novel methods and significant improvements to basic life sciences research techniques.

Nature Protocols

Publishes the protocols being used to answer outstanding biological and biomedical science research questions, including methods grounded in physics and chemistry that have a practical application to the study of biological problems.

Nuleic Acids Research Methods Online

Publishes the results of leading-edge research into physical, chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of nucleic acids and proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism and/or interactions.

OpenWetWare

OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering

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