New online pharmacopeias

The RCSI Library has new subscriptions to two online pharmacopeias

Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference is an extensive and well-referenced encyclopedia of facts about drugs and medicines aimed at researchers, medical professionals, pharmacists, and clinical education instructors.

Martindale contains:
Over 6,300 drug monographs
149,000 preparations
40,700 references
14,700 manufacturers
Synopses of treatments for more than 660 diseases
Enables identification of medicines, the local equivalent and the manufacturer
Includes herbals, diagnostic agents, radiopharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical excipients, toxins, and poisons as well as drugs and medicines
Based on published information and extensively referenced

Martindale is available on or off campus with your RCSI network username and password.


The British National Formulary (BNF) provides up-to-date information on prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines. It details medicines prescribed in the UK with special reference to their uses, cautions, contra-indications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs.

The BNF is published jointly by the BMJ Group and RPS Publishing and is updated every six months. It is intended for use by prescribers, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals.

BNF is available on or off campus with your RCSI network username and password.

New evidence-based resource

RCSI Library brings you Clinical Evidence to help you make informed decisions about common clinical conditions

Clinical Evidence is an important evidence based medicine resource published by the BMJ. It gathers the available evidence about common clinical conditions and provides a concise account of the current state of knowledge, ignorance, and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of each condition. It describes the best available evidence from systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies where appropriate and if there is no good evidence it says so.

Clinical Evidence aims to help people make informed decisions about which treatments to use. It can also show where more research is needed and highlight gaps in the evidence, where there are currently no good randomised controlled trials or no randomised controlled trials that look at groups of people or at important patient outcomes. For clinicians and patients it highlights treatments that work, treatments that may currently be underused and treatments that do not work or for which the harms outweigh the benefits.

Access to Clinical Evidence is available on or off campus with your network username and password.

Link to it from the RCSI library web page or click here
Connect to Clinical Evidence

Environmental health and toxicology resources

TOXNET is the US National Library of Medicine's gateway for Environmental Health and Toxicology information. TOXNET includes the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (a database of potentially hazardous chemicals), TOXLINE (references to the world's toxicology literature), and ChemIDplus (chemical dictionary and structure database). Connect to TOXNET here

The SIS portal ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND TOXICOLOGY offers a set of database and information resources about NLM's environmental, chemical and drug information services, including toxicology related tutorials and fact sheets. Connect here

Paul

Connecting to ejournals from off-campus

1. You know the article details – ie author, title, journal, volume, page numbers
You must link to the ejournal from the Ejournal Portal on the Library’s website. Go to http://www.rcsi.ie/library, choose Ejournals, then Ejournal Portal. You can use the alphabetical list to link to the journal, or you can search for the journal title

2. You are searching the Ovid (Medline, PsycInfo, EBMR) or EBSCO (CINAHL, Medline) databases
Click on the Fulltext@RCSI? button and follow the article link to the full-text.

3. You are searching PubMed
Use PubMed to identify your articles and then go to the Ejournal Portal on the Library’s website (http://www.rcsi.ie/library, choose Ejournals, then Ejournal Portal) to link to the full text. Linking directly to the publishers’ websites from PubMed won’t allow you access to our ejournal subscriptions.

Grainne

Focus on DynaMed

Focus on DynaMed

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool and digest created by physicians for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. With summaries for nearly 2,000 topics, DynaMed is an evidence-based knowledge base designed to answer most clinical questions. DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic reviews.

Try it

New library resources

Faculty of 1000 Medicine and Faculty of 1000 Biology are two major new online services designed to help medics keep abreast of the most important new research in medicine and biology.

Run by a teams of over 2000 of the world's leading researchers and clinicians, Faculty of 1000 Medicine and Biology provide a consensus view of important articles and trends across medicine and the biological sciences. Faculty Members select the most significant articles and contribute short evaluations, providing a guide to key articles in your field, together with an expert's interpretation of what each article adds to our clinical knowledge.

Key features

• Continuously updated selections of key articles across medicine and biology


• Authoritative, timely and concise evaluations by leading clinicians and researchers.


• Systematic organisation of only the most important medical literature.


• Articles highlighted on the basis of their scientific merit and clinical relevance, rather than the reputation of the journal in which they appear.
  

Connect to the Faculty of 1000 Medicine

Connect to the Faculty of 1000 Biology

Faculty of 1000 is funded by the Science Foundation Ireland and access is via IReL

Julia

Do we have the right email address for you?

The Library can communicate with all Library users via email about book hold requests, book overdues, etc. However we can only email you if we have a current and correct email address for you.

Students
The Library receives student address details from the college's student database, so if you need to update your email (or other contact) details:

• Undergraduate students - you can send an update of your term time address/email details to Student Services by filling in the Student Change of Address Form on Moodle. You can also go to the Exams Office or Student Services and ask to update your term-time details. The Fees Office can amend your permanent/home address details.
• Postgraduate students - should go to their Course Coordinator to advise of change of address/updated details.

Staff/Alumni/Surgical Training students
The Library can update email addresses for staff, alumni, associate members and for students from Surgical Training - email us(library@rcsi.ie) or call to the Service Desks to advise us of your address/email updates.

Students - please make sure in particular that there is a current email address in your term-time address.

Note: To check what email address we currently have for you, go to http://library.rcsi.ie/ and click on "Sign in". Sign in using your ID number and your Library account password (available from the Library Service Desk). Click on "My Library Account". Scroll down the page to the address information section and you can see the email address that the Library has for you. Click "End session" to log off.