| Term | Definition |
| index medicus | 3000 journals |
| current contents | 700 journals |
| science citation index | 2700 journals |
| clin-alert | 150 journals |
| international pharmaceutical abstracts | 500 journals |
| in-pharma weekly | 1700 journals |
| index medicus | a printed subset of medline |
| index medicus | author index, subject index, review article index |
| index medicus | updated monthly |
| current contents life sciences, current contents clinical medicine | two versions of current contents useful to pharmacists |
| current contents | provides table of contents for selected journals |
| weekly printed version, cdrom, internet | current contents is available as: |
| science citation index | notes citation frequency (find out what articles have cited a key reference) |
| science citation index | unique literature search option |
| network, cdrom, internet | science citation index is available in: |
| clin-alert | abstracts case reports and studies of adverse drug reactions and drug interactions |
| clin-alert | includes herbal medications |
| newsletter (twice monthly), cdrom, internet | clin-alert is available as: |
| international phamaceutical abstracts | most comprehensive for pharmacists |
| international phamaceutical abstracts | covers most all pharmacy periodicals |
| international phamaceutical abstracts | includes ASHP meeting abstracts |
| international phamaceutical abstracts | abstracts organized by major topic |
| international phamaceutical abstracts | subject index provided |
| international phamaceutical abstracts | best answer for "keeping up with the literature" |
| in-pharma weekly | abstracts current literature related to pharmacotherapy |
| newsletter, cdrom, intranet | inpharma weekly is available as: |
| iowa drug information service | an interesting but expensive option: secondary source with primary source |
| 180, monthly, microfiche | iowa drug information service: indexing service with access to complete articles from ___ journals: updated ____: search by drug, disease, author, study design, keyword or journal; available as ____, cdrom or online versions |
| 1998, microfiche | articles prior to ___ are only available on ___ |
| comprehensiveness, timeliness, organization, scope of information (indexing service, abstracting service) | things to consider about secondary sources: |