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Gateways and Internet Sites for Pharmacy

AVERT
AVERT is an international AIDS charity based in the UK. The site gives access to UK AIDS statistics, advice, lists of AVERT publications and information relating to AIDS prevention and education for young people.

Botantical Dermatology Database (BODD)
A searchable database of images and texts relating to plants, and their beneficial or harmful effects on the skin.

BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources - Medical Sciences
Divided into broad subject categories, but also has an A-Z listing. Also BUBL UK which includes a directory of hospitals and health authorities.

ChemWeb
A wide range of information relevant to anyone in chemical research and the chemicals industry.
Many of these resources are completely free to registered users.

Clinical Knowledge Summaries
A source of clinical knowledge about the common conditions generally managed in primary and first contact care, which has been designed to be used by healthcare professionals together with patients.

Current Controlled Trials
A site aiming to promote the exchange of information about clinical trials, offering a database of combined registers of controlled trials, and links to other online registers of controlled trials.

dotPharmacy
Health and medicine news for UK pharmacy and pharmacists, delivered by Chemist & Druggist.

European gateway on alcohol, drugs and addictions
Gateway which provides access to evaluated, quality Internet resources on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. It is aimed at students, researchers and health professionals.

Images from the History of Medicine
A searchable collection of approximately 100,000 images from the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division of the US National Library of Medicine, including portraits, caricatures, and pictures of institutions.

Internet Pharmacist
A free "teach yourself" tutorial on Internet information skills for pharmacists, pharmacy academics and pharmacy students.

Intute: Health and Life sciences
A free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. There are over 31,000 resource descriptions listed here that are freely accessible for keyword searching or browsing.

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology
A free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. It covers chemistry, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science. The database currently contains over 33,000 records.

IUPHAR Compendium of Voltage-gated Ion Channels
It details the molecular, biophysical and pharmacological properties of the identified mammalian sodium, calcium and potassium channels, as well as the related cyclic nucleotide-modulated ion channels and the recently described transient receptor potential channels.

Office of Dietary Supplements
The site provides information about the ODS and general information about supplements, and provides access to a database of International Bibliographic Informationon Dietary Supplements, publications and links to other relevant materials.

PharmWeb
Pharmacy resources from the University of Manchester.

PubCrawler
PubCrawler is a free alerting service that scans daily updates to the National Centre for Biotechnology Information Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.

Scirus
Elsevier Science search engine designed for the research scientist. Scirus searches the content of sites such as ScienceDirect, Medline on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb, Neuroscion, BioMed Central and patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Searchmedica
SearchMedica is a dedicated medical search engine for healthcare professionals which allows you to search the area of the worldwide web that is of direct relevance to you. Extensive lists of selected sites have been prepared in consultation with working healthcare professionals that will help eliminate unwanted and irrelevant results from your searches delivering what you're looking for more quickly.

The Virtual Pharmacy Centre
Martindale's Health Science Guide to online resources in pharmacy.

WWW Virtual Library Pharmacy
The Virtual Library was started by Tim Berners-Lee. Expert volunteers compile pages of key links for their areas of interest.