PACS 2: Drugs:Discovery to Delivery  

http://www.pacific.edu/Library.html

Search Terms
Drug Development OR
Drug Approval OR
Drug Discovery AND
+Economic OR
+Cost OR
+Orphan Drug OR
+Rare Disease OR
+Neglected Disease OR
+Labeling OR
+Marketing OR
+Informed Consent

Welcome to the library guide created for your Pac Sem! Start with this page to get an overview of your subject, then use books and articles for more in-depth research.

If you have any research questions, feel free to email me at jchan1@pacific.edu.

Gook luck with your paper!

John Chan
Reference Librarian

Drugs.com's Drug Approval Process Information
Description: Breif overview

The U.S. Drug Approval Process: A Primer
Description: Historical Background, Drug Approval Process, and Post-Market

FDA's (Drug) Development & Approval Process
Description: Overview, Laws, and Forms.
Special Features: Search Box

Usage: Recent information (E.g. new laws)

CQ Electronic Library (CQ)
Description: American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
Special Feature: Nice long reports describing a topic

LexisNexis Academic
Description: Contains a # of news papers, including the New York Times.
Special Feature: News articles come out more regularly than journal articles.

Scholarly:

-Longer articles with more in-depth coverage
-Authors are experts (Ph.D/researchers)
-Author uses technical words and is more theoretical
-Contains a lengthy bibliography and/or footnotes

Popular:

-Shorter articles that merely touch on subjects
-Authors are staff writers or journalists
-No bibliography or footnotes
-Written at a highschool reading level