Library Policy Statements

I. PROGRAM INFORMATION

The Pharmacology department is part of a conjoint graduate program in biomedical sciences involving a number of academic departments within the School of Medicine and the Public Health program. The department offers requisite course work for students in the School of Medicine, and offers the MS and PhD degrees. Much of the faculty teaching load relates to required courses within the medical school and the School of Nursing. On occasion, medical school students jointly pursue a graduate degree within the program.

Areas of active faculty and graduate student research include autonomic nervous system pharmacology; cardiovascular pharmacology; biochemical pharmacology; neuropharmacology; pharmacology of natural products; antineoplastic and antiviral drugs.

II. COORDINATION OF COLLECTING RESPONSIBILITIES

The field of pharmacology overlaps with almost every other biomedical science, most especially physiology, biochemistry, chemistry, and medicine.

Publications of the National Institutes of Health and other medically related government publications are available in the Government Documents Collection.

The collections at several of the hospital libraries act as a supplementary resource for the more clinically oriented journals not held by Hamilton Library.

III. GUIDELINES TO MATERIALS COLLECTED OR EXCLUDED

Language:

English language material predominates. Some Japanese and European language materials are also collected.

Chronological:

Acquisition emphasis is almost exclusively on current (past five years) research publications. The knowledge base upon which the field of pharmacology is founded changes very rapidly.

Geographic:

No relevant.

Date of Publication:

Current.

Types/Formats of Materials Collected:

Monographs on current research in the field; conference proceedings; handbooks, dictionaries and pharmacopias; indexes, abstracts and bibliographies (paper/electronic); periodicals, in microform, and online access, if available; and government documents. Excluded are most textbooks, manuscripts, reprints of articles from serials, house organs and newsletters; and non-UH dissertations.

Treatment:

Bibliographical; reference; statistical and mathematical; legal, ethical and medical aspects; reports of scientific experimental results.

Date compiled: 7/01 Compiler: Paul Wermager