Publication helps librarians, healthcare professionals, and researchers find the data they need

New York, NY (September 23, 2008)—The world of drug and pharmaceutical research and development grows at such a rapid rate that it is difficult to garner the best resources for prevalent, of the moment fact. Bonnie Snow, wielding over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceuticals industry, brings her most current scholarship to Drug Information: A Guide to Current Resources, 3rd Edition, just published this September by Neal-Schuman Publishers. This comprehensive guide navigates the maze of drug information resources and references. It covers topics about drugs, drug therapy, and the development and marketing of pharmaceutical products.

Co-published with the Medical Library Association, Drug Information surveys more than 400 print and electronic publications aimed at providing data needed by health science information professionals in corporate, academic or hospital settings—librarians, and scientific or business researchers working in the pharmaceutical industry. Annotations in the guide include information on more than 100 additional titles accessible through the databases or Web sites described.

Drug Information profiles the most current Web sites, online databases, ready-reference compendia, and subject-specialty news services. Many resources are not listed on “site maps” and are not easily located through site-specific search engines. Each of Snow’s detailed entries describes source content, with extensive background information on the subject area, topics likely to be the focus of inquiry, and practical applications of data users will retrieve. Her discussion highlights legal and commercial issues affecting information availability, identifies points to consider in source selection, and defines specialized terminology often needed to locate relevant data quickly and efficiently.

Chapters that are devoted to broad subject areas include: drug nomenclature and identification, laws and regulations, pharmacology and therapeutics, adverse reactions and interactions, analysis, formulation and compounding, investigational drugs still in the pipeline, and pharmaceutical market intelligence. Each chapter is further subdivided into applications-oriented sections.
Because of the book’s careful organization and finding aids, readers can quickly locate where discussion of more specific topics can be found, such as guides to nonprescription drugs and dietary supplements, parenteral incompatibilities, hazardous substances directories, product approvals and basis-of-approval documents, and verifying U.S. patent term extensions. Drug Information also includes a detailed subject index to assist readers in finding sources that will help answer questions with a narrower focus, such as bioequivalence ratings, excipients, drug-induced ocular side effects, discontinued products, or Phase IV post-marketing commitments.

Given the increasing demand for information about medications available abroad and about drug regulation in the European Union, plus the somewhat U.S.-centric nature of most pharmaceutical resources, Snow deftly expands coverage of global sources. Second only to having Snow’s incomparable knowledge in person to focus a search, Drug Information will boost users’ retrieval success and avoid hours of unfruitful research.

Drug Information: A Guide to Current Resources, 3rd Edition
ISBN 978-1-55570-616-6.
2008. 6 x 9. 546 pp. $195.00.

About the Author
Bonnie Snow, BA, MS, has more than 30 years of experience as an online educator, writer, and information management consultant. She currently works in product development as Research Director of Clinical Content and Applications for Pharma/Chem Markets at Thomson Reuters. She has also served as Director of Pharmaceutical Market Applications for Thomson Dialog, consulting education officer for Excerpta Medica, lecturer in library and information science at Catholic University, and librarian at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

About Neal-Schuman Publishers and the Medical Library Association
Neal-Schuman Publishers is the leading provider of library management, Internet, and information technology resources, and is the Medical Library Association’s co-publisher. Founded in 1976, Neal-Schuman Publishers is based in New York City with offices in London, UK.
The Medical Library Association, founded in 1898, is an educational organization of more than 1,100 institutions and 3,600 individual members in the health sciences information field, committed to educating health information professionals, supporting health information research, promoting access to the world’s health sciences information, and working to ensure that the best health information is available to all.

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