EAHIL European Association
for Health Information and Libraries

Highlights from the SIG Pharma meeting

Today the special interest group SIG Pharma met during the 2021 workshop in Turkey, digital of course since it is 2021.

During the meeting the discussed the following:

  • What’s new for Information retrieval with a special focus about drugs and pharmacovigilance.
  • A colleague from Marocco were asking the group if they could suggest any useful databases. Some  current and updated ones such as Reaxys, Scifinder-N, Cortellis Drug Intelligence, PubChem, Pharmapendium, Embase, were recommended. The group discussed the possibility to organize a meeting with providers of these DB and have a demo for interested members of EAHIL.
  • They had an interesting chat about reference managers softwares such as Endnote and Mendeley.
  • At the very end some words about Artificial Intelligence to retrieve information about drug side-effects.

Would you like to get involved in the SIG Pharma? Find more information here:

https://eahil.eu/sig-2/pharmaceutical-information-group/

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