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Library CatalogsMNCAT(http://mncat.lib.umn.edu) is the University of Minnesota's online catalog and includes holdings from the Law Library, as well as all other university libraries. You can search MNCAT to find books, periodicals and other resources. If you do not know the precise terms used by the Library of Congress for a topic, use a keyword search with terms you think may be relevant. After finding an appropriate work, search again under the Library of Congress subject headings used for this work. Books & TreatisesHere are some suggested Library of Congress subject headings for works on
drug research and development. Use these terms as specific topics
when you do subject searches in MNCAT and WorldCat. For place, use
the country, state or continent you are interested in - i.e. United States,
Minnesota, Africa, etc. Dictionaries & EncyclopediasTo find available encyclopedias on drug research and development, search
MNCAT under the following subject search: [specific
topic]--encyclopedias. To find available dictionaries, search MNCAT
with: [specific topic]--dictionaries. Here are some examples of
drug research dictionaries and encyclopedias held by the University of
Minnesota: BibliographiesTo find available bibliographies on drug research and development, search MNCAT under the following subject search: [specific topic]--bibliography. Here are some examples of drug research bibliographies held at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities:Drug Information : a Guide to Current Resources. (1999) Bio-Medical Library ReferenceZQV4 S674d 1999 A Guide to Drug Information and Literature : an Annotated Bibliography. (1991) Bio-Medical Library Reference Z675 .P5 N857g 1991 Guide to the Literature of Pharmacy and the Pharmaceutical Sciences. (1986) Bio-Medical Library Reference ZQV704 A571g 1986 Also, the National Library of Medicine's Current Bibliographies in Medicine series can be found online (from 1992 on) at the NLM's website: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/resources.html Periodicals & IndexesPeriodical Indexes The Index to Legal Periodicals and LegalTrac (both of which are available in the Law Library's reference office and on the law student network) provide electronic access to articles on drug research and development published in legal periodicals. Medline is a general full-text medical database which includes articles on drug research and development, as does Health Reference Center-Academic. International Pharmaceutical Abstracts provides information on all phases of the development and use of drugs and on professional pharmaceutical practice. MICROMEDEX also provides access to drug information resources. You can access all of these databases from the university libraries' health sciences indexes page: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/health.phtml#indexes Periodicals To find available periodicals on drug research, search MNCAT under the
subject search: [specific topic]--periodicals. The full text of
some periodicals will be available electronically on WESTLAW and LEXIS-NEXIS
and/or through university subscriptions. To access the electronic journals
subscribed to by the university, go to the university libraries page: Pharmacological Research. (1989-) Bio-Medical Library Periodicals stack no.184 Government PublicationsTo find recent federal government publications related to drug research and
development, use the Monthly Catalog of Government Publications. This
source is available electronically on CD-ROM in the law library's reference
office, on the Internet at http://catalog.gpo.gov, and on WESTLAW as
GPO-CTLG (this version covers 1976-date). For earlier publications, refer to the
bound volumes found in the U.S. Documents collection on the second floor of the
law library under GP3.8 Congressional publications, starting with the first Congress, are indexed in LexisNexis Congressional, which you can access by going to http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/cong.cgi. It is also available, along with other useful legislative history databases on the LexisNexis. The path from the main databases menu/directory is: Legal > Federal Legal - U.S. > Legislative Histories & Materials. Look for these files: US - CIS/Index (1970 - current), file name: CISINX and CIS/Historical Index (1789 - 1980), file name: CISHST and US - CIS Legislative Histories. Current Awareness SourcesThe following looseleafs contain up-to-date drug research
information: To search for other looseleafs on drug research or other topics, consult: Legal Looseleafs in Print. (1981-) Law Library Reference Office KF1 .L43 Related Web SitesAmerican Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists http://www.aapspharmaceutica.com/
UCSF Center for Drug Development Science http://cdds.ucsf.edu/ PharmWeb http://www.pharmweb.net/ PhRMA http://www.phrma.org/ Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development http://csdd.tufts.edu/ U.S. Pharmacopeaia http://www.usp.org/ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration. http://www.fda.gov/ Links verified 5/1/2008 |
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