Databases

PubMed is the world's largest database of biomedical literature. Using this link will give you access to full text via our online@UHCW links.

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 ERIC database from the Institute of Education Sciences is the education world’s equivalent of PubMed. It includes details of international publications on all aspects of education, including health sciences. Some full text is available.

Browse, read and monitor full text scholarly journals via the BrowZine App for Android, Apple or Kindle devices. To get started, 

1. Download BrowZine in your device’s App Store

2. Select University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust as your library and log in with your UHCW OpenAthens account (need one of these? Ask library staff for more info or register at https://openathens.nice.org.uk ).

3. To set up bookshelves and save your favourite full text articles, register for a free BrowZine personal account – you’ll be prompted to do so on the App.

You can use the BrowZine website here. 

LibKey Nomad++ is an extension for Chrome, Edge, Safari and other web browsers that gives smart access to our subscribed full text on PubMed, Wikipedia and a range of other websites.

• Click Download LibKey Nomad - Third Iron
• Choose your browser
• Follow the instructions to install LibKey Nomad.

• When the Select Institution box appears, type Coventry and choose University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust
• A little green icon will appear in the top right of your browser
• You are now all set for using LibKey Nomad++: prepare for WOW!