Library: Life Sciences: Pharmacy & Pharmacology: Search the literature

Pharmacy and pharmacology databases

These library databases act as indexes to many thousands of journals. Some include other types of information such as books, patents and conference papers.

Embase This link opens in a new window
Index to biomedical literature. Similar to PubMed but better indexed for drug names, drug classes and medical devices.

Embase Library Guide

PubMed This link opens in a new window
If you have created an NCBI account to log in to PubMed, you now need to switch to a third party option, such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft or ORCID. Please refer to NCBI’s instructions and FAQs.
FREE Index to biomedical literature from US National Library of Medicine.

PharmaPendium This link opens in a new window
Searches FDA and EMA regulatory documents. We also subscribe to a pharmacokinetics module.
AdisInsight This link opens in a new window
A database for drug research and development, disease treatment and decision
making, based on scientifically sound data. It brings together essential information on drugs in commercial development, key clinical trials, deals, safety profiles, and patents. All data on the platform is reviewed, assessed and summarised by a team of scientists.

BizInt Smart Charts Lite
BizInt Smart Charts Lite is software that you need to install to get the most out of AdisInsight as it allows you to create, customize, and distribute tabular reports from the database. It is free and easy to install.

Staff and postgraduate researchers can install it onto their campus desktops.
Undergraduates and postgraduate taught students will need to install it on their own devices.
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Main features include the ability to create a report from search results, to view charts, records, and images, the option to customize your report and create links to trials and other publications. You can also update reports and identify new records and changes and distribute reports in Word, Excel, PDF, and HTML to colleagues within the university
AdisInsight tutorials and user guides
Video tutorials and user guides on how to use AdisInsight

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including systematic reviews.
CINAHL This link opens in a new window
Nursing and allied health.Note the peer-reviewed search option.
Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry This link opens in a new window
Provides 'normalized substance–target affinity data and comprehensive pharmacokinetic, efficacy, toxicity, safety and metabolic profiles.'

Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry quick start guide

SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
SciFinder-n is a new version of SciFinder, the largest index to chemistry and related literature. Search by topic, author, compound name, molecular formula or structure.

General subject databases

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Index to journals and conference papers across all subject areas.

Scopus Support Center

Web of Science: all databases This link opens in a new window
Search across all databases on the Web of Science platform.

The University of Bath Library gives you access to these databases on the Web of Science platform:
Web of Science Core Collection
Biosis Citation Index
Data Citation Index
Derwent Innovations Index
KCI - Korean Journal Database
Medline
Russian Science Citation Index
SciELO Citation Index
Zoological Record.

Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Index to selected journals, conference papers and book series across all subject areas.

Web of Science Core Collection consists of the following databases:

Science Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings Citation Index
Book Citation Index
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Current Chemical Reactions
Index Chemicus

Find clinical trials

ClinicalTrials.gov
U.S. clinical trials - you can refine results by specific stages in the trial process.
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
International Clinical Trials Registry Platform
Provided by WHO (World Health Organization).
ISRCTN Registry
Extensive details of proposed, ongoing and completed clinical trials - registry recognised by WHO & ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors).
The National Research Registry
Pre-2008 NHS clinical research studies supported by the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) in England.
Be Part of Research
NHS clinical research studies supported by the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) in England.

Find health statistics

NHS Digital

Office for National Statistics This link opens in a new window
UK's economy, population and society at national/local level: summaries of key areas plus downloadable statistics into spreadsheets
Office of Health Economics: health statistics and data analysis This link opens in a new window
Demographic/mortality/morbidity statistics across Europe and OECD countries, and NHS statistics (expenditure, health services, hospitals, workforce)
WHO (World Health Organization): statistics This link opens in a new window
Health statistics

Research methods

SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
E-books, articles, videos and case studies about research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed: including data analysis, interviews, focus groups, literature reviews and systematic reviews)
Springer Protocols This link opens in a new window
SpringerProtocols is a database of laboratory protocols in the biomedical and life sciences from 1980 and is hosted on the Springer Nature Experiments platform.

Can't find the full text?

Inter-library Loans Service
If you find references to books, journals, articles or other materials we either do not stock in print or subscribe to online, you can request these via our Inter-library Loans Service. If you haven't used the service before you will need to register.

How to do a literature search

Library Guide to 'How to do a Literature Search'

Open access databases

IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology This link opens in a new window
A searchable database of drug targets and the prescription medicines and experimental drugs that act on them.
ChEMBL This link opens in a new window
ChEMBL is a database of bioactive drug-like small molecules. It gives bioactivities abstracted from the literature and calculated properties. Search for compounds, targets or assays.
DrugBank This link opens in a new window
Free database of information on drugs and drug targets.