Research Guides: Drug Information: Monographs & Drug Directories

eBook Collections & Monographs

AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
AccessMedicine provides textbooks, examination and procedural videos, drug monographs, self-assessment rubrics, images, cases, patient education materials, and more. (Includes Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.)
Lexidrug (formerly Lexicomp) This link opens in a new window
Formerly known as Lexicomp, Lexidrug offers point-of-care drug, disease, toxicology, diagnostic test, and patient information.
Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
Nursing Reference Center PLUS is a source for evidence-based information designed specifically for nurses. Access articles, syntheses, care plans, watch video demonstrations, strengthen nursing skills, earn continuing education credits and much more.

NCBI Bookshelf
Fully searchable biomedical textbooks, monographs, and text-based databases with biomedical themes from the National Library of Medicine.
Stat!Ref
Searchable full-text medical and drug information. Includes more than 25 medical reources such as Stedman's Dictionary, Mosby's Drug Consult, Merck Manual, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Current Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment, USP DI Vols 1 and 2, AHFS Drug Information and many more.

UpToDate This link opens in a new window
UpToDate is an electronic, full-text clinical resource that provides evidence-based answers to the most commonly asked questions in clinical practice.Over 10,000 topics in over 22 specialties, including Drug Info and Patient Level education materials. Written by an international faculty of practicing clinicians who are experts in their specialties.
Users must create an individual account for the initial setup at the above link. To maintain access users must login from the NYU Libraries’ link every 89 days. Users must always use NYU Libraries' link to log in.

Drug Portals

Drug Information Portal (US National Library of Medicine)
Gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. government agencies.
DrugBank
DrugBank Online is a comprehensive, free-to-access, online database containing information on drugs and drug targets. As both a bioinformatics and a cheminformatics resource, it combines detailed chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical data with drug target sequence, structure, and pathway information.
Orange Book Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations.
RxList
RxList is an online medical resource dedicated to offering detailed and current pharmaceutical information on brand and generic drugs
Center for Drug Evalation and Research
Responsible for the safety of drugs available to the public.
DailyMed (NIH/NLM)
Provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA labels (package inserts). This Web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides this as a public service and does not accept advertisements.
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

Finding Drug Books in the Library Catalog

You can find books and journals by searching BobCat by Library of Congress Subject Headings. On the Advanced Search screen change the drop-down box to Subject and type in the subject term(s) you seek.

The subject heading examples below are hyperlinked to our books on that topic:

Some subject heading examples include:

Subject=Pharmacology
Used for books on the science of drugs, including their chemistry, actions and effects.
For example:
- pharmacology--handbooks, manuals
- pharmacology--history
Subject=Drugs
Some of the subdivisions listed under the subject heading Drugs are:
Subject=Drug Abuse
Some of the subdivisions listed under the subject heading Drug Abuse are:
Related works may be found under the subject headings Substance Abuse, Alcoholism, or Pharmaceutical Industry .