(2) Secondary literature. On the basis of making full use of secondary literature, we can get twice the result with half the effort. Secondary literature refers to all kinds of directories, indexes and abstracts after processing and sorting out the primary literature.
The most commonly used secondary literature in China is China Pharmaceutical Abstracts (CPA), followed by China Science and Technology Information Catalogue? Medical and Health, China Science and Technology Information Catalogue? Chinese herbal medicine. The most commonly used foreign secondary literature is International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA), in addition to chemical abstracts (CA), biological abstracts (BA), medical indexes (IM) and medical abstracts (EM).
(3) Three documents. Publications summarized, synthesized and classified according to primary and secondary documents. Including pharmacopoeia, drug collection, encyclopedia, monograph and reference book.
Drug Collection is mainly for clinical introduction of drugs, so it is a necessary reference book for clinical pharmacists and licensed pharmacists.
For example: ① The newly edited Pharmacology is the most famous drug collection with the largest circulation in China at present;
(2) martindale special pharmacopoeia is called Pharmacopoeia, which is actually not compiled and published by the state, but a drug collection edited and published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. The book is characterized by combining clinical practice, rich reference materials and timely updating of knowledge.
Commonly used reference books include English-Chinese Chemistry and Chemical Vocabulary (Science Publishing House), English-Chinese Medical Terminology Compilation (People's Health Publishing House), Common Names of Drugs in China (compiled by the Office of Pharmacopoeia Committee) and Chemical Terminology (Science Publishing House).