DRUG INFORMATION SOURCES
Chemical	Clinical Evidence
Pharmaceutical	Government Agencies
General	Industry Associations
Historical	Search Engines

 

CHEMICAL

ChemBank drug structure database	Interactive PhysProp Database
ChemIDplus	PubChem
Chemical structures of drugs (Chemfinder)	The OSIRIS Property Explorer
ChemBioFinder	Free Patents Online

 

PHARMACEUTICAL

Details of 7,500 companies from more than 90 countries	InPharm.com
Electronic Medicines Compendium (UK)	International companies home pages
European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products	Pharmweb
FDA Electronic Orange Book	Telescan: European Internet service for cancer research

 

GENERAL

About Drug Finder	The Merck Manuals Online
Centre for Medicines Research	National Center for Biotechnology Information
DrugBank	National Cancer Institute (USA)
Drugs. com	New Drugs in Development
Druginfonet	New drugs approved by FDA
DrugTopics	Omni
Finding Drug Names	Open Directory Project: Drugs & Medications
IDIS World of Drug Information	Rxlist - The Internet Drug Index
Martindale's The "Virtual" - Pharmacy Center	US National Drug Code Directory
Medline Plus Drug Information	Virtual Pharmacy Library
Medline/PubMed

 

HISTORICAL

Anesthesia History Files	National Library of Medicine: History of Medicine
Cuneiform Digital Library Project	Navigator History of Pharmacy
Drug Discovery: a History	Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Early English Books Online	Pharmaziehistorische Bibliographie
Heirs of Hippocrates	PHB bibliography for the history of pharmacy
HistMed Search	Royal Pharmaceutical Society GB library catalogue
History of Xenobiotic Metabolism	Salmonsens Konversations Leksikon (Danish online encyclopaedia of  particular value for chemistry of early 20th century drugs)
IndexCat (US National Library of Medicine)	Wellcome Library Catalogue
MedHist guide to  resources on the Internet	Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine

 

CLINICAL EVIDENCE

Bandolier	National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC)
Cochrane Library (log on anonymously)	NICE (UK National Institute of Clinical Excellence)
James Lind Library

 

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

FDA	UK Committee on Safety of Medicines
UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency

 

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

 

SEARCH ENGINES

Medical abbreviations	Web of Science
PubMed	UK Medical Search Engine
Science Direct