Subject Classification
| Q | Science (General) |
| QD | Chemistry |
| QM | Human anatomy |
| QP | Physiology |
| QR | Microbiology |
| R | Medicine (General) |
| RA | Public aspects of medicine |
| RB | Pathology |
| RC | Internal medicine |
| RM | Therapeutics. Pharmacology |
| RS | Pharmacy and materia medica |
| T | Technology (General) |
Printed Books
| To search for printed books, use the OPAC (HikmahPac). | https://hikmahlib.iium.edu.my/ |
| To find required/recommended books for your course, click Course reserves and search using the course code. The books are available on the Open Shelf. | https://hikmahlib.iium.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/opac-course-reserves.pl |
| Reference Only | |
| British Pharmacopoeia 2026 | r RS 131.3 B75 2026 v1-v6; |
Ebooks
| Immediately access online ebooks and databases when using the IIUM network/wifi | |
| Use off campus access when not using the IIUM network/wifi | https://login.ezlib.iium.edu.my/login/ |
| EBSCO eBook Collection | https://research.ebsco.com/c/efgzxx/search |
| Emerald e-books series | https://www.emerald.com/ |
| IGI Info Science e-books | https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/ |
| Oxford Academic | https://academic.oup.com/books/search-results?q=&tax=AcademicSubjects%2fMED00010&access_all=true |
| ProQuest Ebook Central | https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/iic-ebooks/home.action |
| ScienceDirect | https://www.sciencedirect.com/browse/journals-and-books?contentType=BK&contentType=TB&accessType=openAccess& accessType=subscribed |
| Springer Nature Link | https://link.springer.com/books/a/1 |
| Taylor & Francis e-books | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/search?sortBy=newest-to-oldest&isLicensed=true&key=&openAccess= true&freeAccess=true&fullyOABook=true&OAChapter=true |
Online Resources: Online Databases
| Immediately access online ebooks and databases when using the IIUM network/wifi | ||
| Use off campus access when not using the IIUM network/wifi | https://login.ezlib.iium.edu.my/login/ | |
| Full-text Databases | Notes | |
| Cochrane Library | https://www.cochranelibrary.com/ | There is free access in Malaysia, provided by the National Institutes of Health Ministry of Health Malaysia. |
| a) Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) | https://www.cochranelibrary.com/ central/about-central | |
| b) Cochrane Clinical Answers | https://www.cochranelibrary.com/ cca/about | |
| c) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | https://www.cochranelibrary.com/ about/about-cochrane-reviews | |
| EBSCO Databases | ||
| a) Arab World Research Source: Al-Masdar | https://research.ebsco.com/c/d5yxrk/ search?defaultdb=awr | |
| IEEE Xplore | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/ accessinfo | |
| ProQuest Health & Medical Collection | https://www.proquest.com/health complete/ | Contains citation/abstract only items and full-text items (with delays for certain publications) |
| https://about.proquest.com/en/ products-services/pq_health_ med_comp/ | ||
| ScienceDirect | https://www.sciencedirect.com/ browse/journalsandbookscontent Type=JL&accessType=open Access&accessType=subscribed | Full text database, minimal journals are subscribed by IIUM |
| Springer Nature Link | https://link.springer.com/ | Full text database; subscribed via KONSEPt, with full reading access to more than 2,300 journal titles |
| United States Pharmacopeia (USP-NF) | Quality standards; email: mfaizul@iium.edu.my | |
| UpToDate | https://www.uptodate.com/contents/ search | Clinical resource |
| Bibliographic and Citation Databases | ||
| Scopus | Scopus | |
| Web of Science | Web of Science | |
| Archival Databases | ||
| JSTOR | JSTOR | |
Online Resources: Open Access
| Notes | ||
| ASAPbio | https://asapbio.org/preprint -servers/ | Preprint server directory |
| BASE | https://www.base-search.net/ | |
| BMC | https://link.springer.com/ brands/bmc | |
| ClinPGx | https://www.clinpgx.org/ | Integrates PharmGKB, which is a clinically oriented drug resource (typically targeted towards pharmacists, physicians, or consumers). |
| CORE | https://core.ac.uk/ | |
| Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) | https://www.doabooks.org/ | |
| Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) | https://doaj.org/ | |
| DrugBank | https://go.drugbank.com/drugs | Is this a reliable database? Refer: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm .nih.gov/articles/PMC2238889/ |
| Epistemonikos | https://www.epistemonikos. org/en/ | |
| Herbal Medicines Compendium | https://hmc.usp.org/ | |
| Malaysian Herbal Monograph | https://globinmed.com/medicinal _herbs_category/malaysian- herbal-monograph/ | |
| NCBI databases | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ | |
| a) NCBI Bookshelf | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ books | |
| b) PubChem | https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm .nih.gov/ | Chemically oriented drug database (typically oriented towards medicinal chemists, biochemists, and molecular biologists). |
| c) PubMed | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm .nih.gov/ | |
| OpenAlex | https://openalex.org/ | |
| Trip | https://www.tripdatabase.com/ | Free version available to use. IIUM does not subscribe to the Pro version |
Theses and Repositories
| IIUM Theses Repository | https://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/home |
| Malaysian Theses | https://mytheses.my/search/ |
| Open Access Theses and Dissertations | https://oatd.org/ |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global | https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal |
Local Association/Gov
| Local | |
| Association | |
| Malaysian Pharmacists Society (MPS) | https://www.mps.org.my/ |
| Government | |
| Department of Standards Malaysian, MITI | https://www.jsm.gov.my/ |
| a) Knowledge Centre | https://www.jsm.gov.my/knowledge-centre-portal |
| Ministry of Health | https://www.moh.gov.my/en |
| Pharmaceutical Services Programme, MOH | https://pharmacy.moh.gov.my/en |
| a) National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) | https://npra.gov.my/ |
International Association/Gov
| International | |
| Pharmaceutical Associations | https://www.pharmacy.org/association.html |