ChemSpider from the Royal Society of Chemistry is a free chemical name and structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 100 million structures from hundreds of data sources. It includes trade names, synonyms and suppliers.
ClinicalTrials.gov is a website and online database of worldwide clinical trials and information about their results. It includes ongoing trials, including those currently recruiting. The purpose of ClinicalTrials.gov is to provide information about clinical research studies to the public, researchers, and health care professionals.
dm+d is a dictionary of descriptions and codes for medicines and devices in use in the NHS. It includes informatoin about prices, reimbursement, current and discontinued products.
Ebook Central gives you quick and easy online access to a selection of medical and nursing textbooks, with the opportunity to read online or to download and “borrow” books for offline use on a mobile device for any period from 24 hours to 365 days, depending on the publisher’s licence. You can use the Bookshelf feature to keep track of what you have viewed and/or downloaded and organise your favourite titles.
The complete Ebook Central catalogue is open for browsing, and titles that we do not own may be viewed online for a maximum of 5 minutes. It’s possible to send us suggestions for purchase.
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The electronic medicines compendium (emc) contains up to date, easily accessible information about medicines licensed for use in the UK. emc has more than 14,000 documents, all of which have been checked and approved by either the UK or European government agencies which license medicines. These agencies are the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). emc hosts medicines information for medicines licensed for use in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), as well as UK-wide licensed medicines (Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
EMBASE starts in 1974 and covers literature on biomedical sciences, pharmacology, biomedical technology, medical research, with a strong European focus. OpenAthens login required.
With Google Scholar you can search for published articles, patents and conference papers and check for full text availability.
Useful features include Cited by… (shows you what other papers have cited the one you’re interested in)
To link our UHCW full text journals to Google Scholar go to Settings – Library Links and search for Coventry. Make sure the box next to UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY & WARWICKSHIRE (UHCW) is ticked and click Save. Afterwards, you will see Online @ UHCW beside items to which we can provide full text access. You will need your UHCW OpenAthens login to use this service. You can also add links to other libraries that provide a full text location service.
The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) / British Pharmacological Society (BPS) Guide to PHARMACOLOGY is an expert-curated resource of ligand-activity-target relationships, the majority of which come from high-quality pharmacological and medicinal chemistry literature. It is intended as a “one-stop shop” portal to pharmacological information and its main aim is to provide a searchable database with quantitative information on drug targets and the prescription medicines and experimental drugs that act on them. In future versions we plan to add resources for education and training in pharmacological principles and techniques along with research guidelines and overviews of key topics. We hope that the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (abbreviated as GtoPdb) will be useful for researchers and students in pharmacology and drug discovery and provide the general public with accurate information on the basic science underlying drug action.
The information in the database is presented at two levels: the initial view or landing pages for each target family provide expert-curated overviews of the key properties and selective ligands and tool compounds available. For selected targets more detailed introductory chapters for each family are available along with curated information on the pharmacological, physiological, structural, genetic and pathophysiogical properties of each target. The database is enhanced with hyperlinks to additional information in other databases including Ensembl, UniProt, PubChem, RESOLUTE, ChEMBL and DrugBank, as well as curated chemical information and literature citations in PubMed.
The MSD Manual (formerly the Merck Manual) is a comprehensive resource on medical topics and pharmacology. Please note that the drug information is based on US practice, so please use the MSD Manual in conjunction with the UHCW formulary and guidelines.
An App is available for Android and Apple devices: scan the QR Code on the MSD Manual website.
VigiAccess searches the VigiBase database and retrieves statistical data on medicines and vaccines side effects (suspected adverse reactions) reported to the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring (WHO PIDM). The database contains over 10 million reports dating back to 1968 and holds information from more than 120 countries participating in the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring.