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Welcome to the subject guide created especially for Pharmacy Technology students and faculty. Please email me if I can help you in any way at khmoore@gtcc.mailcruiser.com

Pharmacy Technology News Sources

Pharmacy Choice
http://www.pharmacychoice.com/
National Pharmacy Technician Association
http://www.pharmacytechnician.org/

Databases for Pharmacy Technology Research

Health Source

Nursing, allied health and health sciences journals. Indexes.

CINAHL with Full-Text

Nursing, allied health and health sciences journals. Indexes. Full-text for about 320 journals.

U.S. Pharmacist

US Pharmacist is the pharmacist's partner in practice, providing authoritative, peer-reviewed clinical articles covering the latest advances in patient care, community, hospital and alternative care sites as well as economic and legal issues.

Core Research Databases

Academic Search Premier

Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database (from 1990 to present).
Abstracts and indexes over 7,900 journals (over 6,175 of those are peer-reviewed).
Provides the full text of over 4,500 journals (over 3,600 of those are peer-reviewed).
Covers psychology and sociology. Includes full text coverage of a some psychology journals not indexed elsewhere.

ERIC

Contains over 850,000 references and abstracts more than 750 education journals, as well as published and unpublished educational materials such as school system reports, conference papers, and research reports.
Useful for counseling, and other related topics
Coverage from 1966 to present

PsycINFO

Abstracts for over 1,300 periodicals, book chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry and sociology.
Coverage from 1872 to present

PubMed

Contains several million citations to international journals on medicine including research, clinical practice (treatment), administration, policy issues and health care services. Includes psychiatry, psychology, neuropsychology.
Many foreign language titles. Limited number of items available in Jackson Library
1965 to present but dates of coverage vary by database

Additional Resources

Additional Databases

Types of Articles

Publications are written for different purposes and different audiences. Generally, there are three types of publications: scholarly, popular, and trade publications.

	Scholarly Journals	Popular Journals	Trade Publications
Purpose	Informs and reports on original research done by scholars and experts in the field.	Entertains and informs a general audience without providing in-depth analysis.	Reports on industry trends and new products or techniques useful to people in a trade or business.
Authors	Articles are written by subject specialists and experts in the field.	Articles are written by journalists, freelance writers, or an editorial staff.	Articles are written by specialists in a certain field or industry.
Audience	Intended for a limited audience - researchers, scholars, and experts.	Intended for a broad segment of the population, appealing to non-specialists.	Intended for practititioners in a particular profession, business, or industry.