Nick Milovanovic Parsons E106 11/13/13 Whats Useful for a Pharmacy Major?

Here at Purdue, I am currently in the College of Pharmacy studying Pharmaceutical Sciences. There are many libraries and other resources around campus, and at times you need to know what resource center or library is going to be most useful. For my major, the most useful library on campus lies next to the PUSH Center in the Pharmacy building. Plainly enough, the name of the library is the Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences Library, with the exact address of Heine Pharmacy Building Room 272; 575 Stadium Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Within the library itself, there are multiple iTap computers with newly upgraded wireless Internet. Also, there are hundreds of shelves that contain physical copies of medical journals, clinical trials of new pharmaceuticals, and anything else needed for chemical or biological purposes. For all pre-medical and pre-pharmacy majors, this is the library in which helps the most in times of need. In regards to which databases or journals are most used within the practice and education of Pharmacy lies in five major databases. The first database is PubMed, or Medline. This database is by far the most prestigious and respected database that concentrates in disease-state management, as well as therapeutics. Other topics have very select coverage, such as communal pharmaceutical practice pharmaceutical education. International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, on the other hand, picks up the slack for PubMed.

This database contains hundreds of journals that relate to pharmaceutical education, practice, and information about the profession in general. Third comes Access Science. Even though this database is very broad and withholds an enormous amount of journals and articles about all topics of science, it still comes in great use when you do not have a specific pharmacy related question. It also includes biographies, weekly updates, and news on developing research.