Patricia A. Piermatti and Jackie Mardikian Pharmaceutical Sciences Librarian mardikia@rci.rutgers.edu February 25, 2008

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Pharmaceutical Sciences:
Pharmaceutical Business

• Databases

• Bibliographic Guide to Rutgers Resources (Sub-page)

• Internet Resources: Selected List
1. Drug Pricing
2. Drug Regulations/Laws
3. Job Hunting
4. New Drug Approvals (including Clinical Trials)
5. Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic, Health and Medical News
6. Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic and Health Companies
7. Statistics

• Related Rutgers Resources

Databases

The following databases, all of which are not necessarily focused upon pharmaceutical business, do provide international coverage of the literature within each subject area. These networked databases are available for both on-site and remote use by Rutgers University students, faculty and staff. For descriptions and search connections to these and all other networked databases go to the Rutgers University Libraries Indexes and Databases page.

Rutgers users of RefWorks, the Web-based bibliography and database manager, can review the Rutgers University Libraries RefWorks FAQ. Additional guides and online tutorials are listed below.

• RefWorks: Importing Records from PubMed (UC-Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library)
• EndNote: Importing Records from PubMed (UC-Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library)
• Working with EndNote Version X (University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library)
• EndNote Basics (NIH Library)
• EndNote Import Filters (can sort by database name)
• EndNote Output Styles
• EndNote Technical Support & Services (includes Mac compatibility)
• BibMe - bibme.org

Additionally, the EndNote import filter file for International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (OVID) is available here

Business & Industry Database (Coverage: 1994 - present). Business and Industry Database is an index to business trade periodicals which includes abstracts, extracts or full-text for all articles covered. Use it for broad-based business information at an international level. B&I draws business news, facts and events from over 1000 trade publications, national, international, regional newspapers, business dailies, and newsletters. This database focuses on facts, figures, key events, market information and intellectual property information. Coverage begins in 1994.

Business Source Premier - covers most business and management topics including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, and public administration. It contains the full-text (or abstracts) of articles from thousands of scholarly and professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. This database also includes profiles of the world's 10,000 largest companies, reports for over two thousand industry sectors, and hundreds of country risk and economic reports.

Factiva (Coverage: varies by publication). Factiva is a vast archive of the world's most important publications, reports and news, focusing on business. RUL's subscription includes these content segments, each of which has its own searching capabilities. Search: Search for articles on any subject in the full text of 8,000 leading business newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and television and radio transcripts.

FDC Reports (Current 120 days) The FDC Reports newsletters cover U.S. government (i.e. U.S. Food and Drug Administration) regulations, corporate news, mergers and acquisitions, product development, patent information, and statistical data (i.e. sales, market share, etc).

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) (Coverage: 1970 - present). This file provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature from 1970 to the present, and is updated monthly. Comprehensive information is included for drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.

LexisNexis Statistical (Coverage: varies by print publication) unifies indexing previously available through three print products, the American Statistics Index, the Statistical Reference Index, and the Index to International Statistics. Full text or web links are provided for some citations, and the complete text of the Statistical Abstract of the United States is included in the database.

PubMed (Coverage: 1950s - present) PubMed, available via the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Entrez life sciences retrieval system, was developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the U.S. National Institutues of Health (NIH). Entrez is the text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for services including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, OMIM, and many others. PubMed consisting of the MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE databases, contains over 17 million bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,000 biomedical journals dating back to the early 1950s. OLDMEDLINE, containing the earliest citations has a fact sheet. PubMed coverage also includes the following:

• Out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE.
• Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing.
• Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM.

Internet Resources: Selected List

Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic and Health Companies

• CTFA-Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association International Buyers' Guide
  (http://www.ctfa-buyersguide.org/)
• New Jersey Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Companies, compiled by Patricia A. Piermatti and Mei Ling Lo
  (http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njpharm)
• Pharmacy Times: Links (select category "Companies")
  (http://www.pharmacytimes.com/links.cfm)
• SCRIP Directory 2008
  (http://www.pjbpubs.com/pharmaworld/index.htm)
• America's Best Big Companies
  (http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/88/biz_07platinum_The-400-Best-Big-Companies_land.html)
  Select industry "Drugs & Biotechnology".
• Fortune Global 500 - Industry: Pharmaceuticals
  (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2007/industries/21/1.html)
• The Global 2000 Special Report, compiled by Forbes
  (http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/29/forbes-global-2000-biz-07forbes2000-cz_sd_0329global_land.html)

Sort by industry and browse to "Drugs & Biotechnology".

• The World's Top 50 Pharmaceutical Companies (annual report compiled by Pharmaceutical Executive)
  (http://www.pharmexec.com/pharmexec/data/articlestandard/pharmexec/272006/354138/article.pdf)

Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic, Health and Medical News

• AAAS@EurekAlert! - Science News
  (http://www.eurekalert.org/index.php)
• Aetna InteliHealth
  (http://www.intelihealth.com/)
• American Pharmacists Association
  (http://www.aphanet.org)
• BioSpace
  (http://www.biospace.com/)
• CanBiotech: Biotech Portal & B2B Marketplace
  (http://www.canbiotech.com/)
• CancerConsultants.com
  (http://www.cancerconsultants.com/)
• Druginfonet.com
  (http://www.druginfonet.com/)
• DrugResearcher.com
  (http://www.drugresearcher.com/)
• DrugTopics: The Online Newsmagazine for Pharmacists
  (http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/)
• HealthCare Institute of New Jersey
  (http://www.hinj.org)
• Healthfinder
  (http://www.healthfinder.gov/)
• HealthScout
  (http://www.healthscout.com/)
• HON News: Health on the Net Foundation
  (http://www.hon.ch/News/indexC02.html#C02.782.600.550.200.750)
• MayoClinic.com
  (http://www.mayohealth.org/)
• MediLexicon: Medical Abbreviations Dictionary, Medical News ...
  (http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/)
• MedlinePlus: Trusted Health Information for You
  (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/)
• Pharmaceutical Executive (PharmExec.com)
  (http://www.pharmexec.com/pharmexec/)
• Pharmaceutical Online
  (http://www.pharmaceuticalonline.com/)
• PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America)
  (http://www.phrma.org)
• RegSource.com
  (http://www.regsource.com/index.html)
• U.S. National Institutes of Health
  (http://www.nih.gov/)
• U.S. Pharmacist
  (http://www.uspharmacist.com/)
• WebMD
  (http://www.webmd.com/)

Drug Pricing

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)

DrugCoverage.CA: A Guide to Reimbursement

International Drug Price Indicator Guide, 2006 edition (Management Sciences for Health)

New Jersey Prescription Drug Price Registry

Partnership for Prescription Assistance

PharmacyChecker.com ... (leading independent source of information about online pharmacies)

Prescription-Europe.com (Prescription Name Cross-Reference)

RXAssist: Patient Assistance Program Center

Rx4NJ.org (use for locating free or discounted drug programs)

Drug Regulations/Laws

• AARP Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage
  (http://www.aarp.org/health/medicare/drug_coverage/medicarerx_coverage.html)
• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR): Main Page
  (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html)
• Search CFR Title 21 Database
  (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm)
• The Federal Register (FR): Main Page
  (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html)
• Laws Enforced by the FDA and Related Statutes
  (http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/)
• Europa - European Commission - Enterprise and Industry - Pharmaceuticals
  (http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/pharmaceuticals/index_en.htm)
• Food and Drug Law Institute - Links
  (http://www.fdli.org/links/)
• National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)
  (http://www.nabp.net/)
• Questions and Answers on Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) for Drugs
  (http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/cGMPs/default.htm)
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  (http://www.fda.gov)
• World Health Organization (WHO) Medicines
  (http://www.who.int/medicines/en)

Job Hunting

• American Chemical Society - North Jersey Section - Employment Opportunities
  (http://njacs.org/jobs.html)
• Career and Employment Resources: Research Guide by Ryan Womack (Rutgers University Libraries)
  (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/career/career.shtml)
• LifeScienceJobs.com
  (http://www.pharmajobs.com)
• MedZilla.com
  (http://www.medzilla.com)
• PharmacyWeek.com
  (http://www.pharmacyweek.com)
• ScienceCareers.org
  (http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/)

New Drug Approvals (including Clinical Trials)

• Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations - electronic "Orange Book" - enables searching of the database by active ingredient, proprietary name, applicant holder or applicant number
  (http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/)
• CenterWatch (Thomson): Clinical Tirals Listing Service - Drugs Approved by the FDA
  (http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/drugs/druglist.html)
• ClinicalStudyResults.org
  (http://clinicalstudyresults.org/)
• ClinicalTrials.gov
  (http://clinicaltrials.gov)
• Drugs@FDA - A Catalog of FDA Approved Drug Products
  (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm)
• From Test Tube to Patient: Protecting America's Health Through Human Drugs
  (http://www.fda.gov/fdac/special/testtubetopatient/default.htm)
• IFPMA (International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations) Clinical Trials Portal
  (http://ifpma.org/clinicaltrials)
• NCCAM (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Clinical Trials
  (http://nccam.nih.gov/clinicaltrials/)

Statistics

• Annual Surveys ... in Drug Topics: The Online Newsmagazine for Pharmacists; click on "Pharmacy Facts and Figures" in the left navigation bar.
  (http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/)
• National Center for Health Statistics - Therapeutic Drug Use
  (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drugs.htm)
• National Prescription Audit (NPA) - a marketing service from IMS Health
  (http://www.imshealth.com/ims/portal/front/articleC/0,2777,6599_18731_40044561,00.html)
  National Prescription Audit (NPA) is a subscription service available from IMS Health. This offering provides national- and regional- level prescription intelligence covering retail, long-term care and mail order pharmacies.
• PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America)
  (http://www.phrma.org/)
• Prescription Drug Trends Fact Sheet (Kaiser Family Foundation)
  (http://www.kff.org/rxdrugs/3057.cfm)
• Top 200 Prescriptions from RxList ....
  (http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp)
• World Health Organization; click on "Country Information"; then select country from the pull-down menu.
  (http://www.euro.who.int/)

Related Rutgers Resources

• Business: Research Guide by Ka-Neng Au and others
• Rutgers Business - MBA in Pharmaceutical Management