Drug Information-A Guide to Current Resources

B Snow. Drug Information A Guide to Current Resources. Lanham, MD Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1999. 

Snow B. Drug Information—A Guide to Current Resources. Lanham, MD Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1999. This is an extremely comprehensive book that lists and describes multiple sources of drug information. The focus is very limited, but no other book covers this subject as completely. 

Tertiary publications, as described by Sewell [52] in Guide to Drug Information, are those publications that are the furthest removed from the literature of original research. The tertiary literature is a distillation and evaluation of data and information first presented in such primary literature sources as research reports, meeting presentations, and journal articles. Being furthest removed from the primary report, the tertiary literature characteristically is the least current and the most vulnerable to misinterpretations, biases, and inaccuracies. But just as characteristic, the tertiary literature is the most accessible, easiest to use, and perhaps the most used of all information resources. Information searches generally start with a perusal of... 

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