Citing Online Drug Resources 2: LexiDrugs via LexiComp

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by Cindy Schmidt, M.D., M.L.S

Created 07/2014

Updated 07/2019

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Instructions:

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This tutorial will help you gather the information needed to cite a monograph from LexiDrugs that has been accessed through the LexiComp interface.

LexiComp includes three sets of frequently updated, "LexiDrugs" monographs that are produced by the LexiComp publishing company.

  • LexiDrugs
  • Pediatric and Neonatal LexiDrugs
  • Geriatric LexiDrugs

AMA 10th template for Frequently Updated Online Resources

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LexiDrugs monographs do not have chapter/monograph authors.  

In the AMA 10th style, the bibliography entry for an authorless, online monograph is formatted as shown below:

Article/chapter/monograph title. In: Resource Title. Publisher's city, Publisher's State: Publisher's name. web address. Updated _______. Accessed Month date, year.

As a student in Introduction to Drug Information (PHPR 562), you will use the bibliographic management program Zotero to help you create formatted citations and bibliography entries, but you will still have to gather the information needed for the citation and enter it in a Zotero record.

AMA 10th template for Frequently Updated Online Resources

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To keep track of the information you gather today, you will enter it in a Canvas quiz. The quiz is set to allow you to view the information you enter at any time.  Consequently, you will be able to access the information tomorrow when you create a Zotero record for the LexiDrugs monograph.

Go to Canvas and open the Week 1--

"Written Monograph -- Major Online Drug Information Resource Selection"

-- quiz. Click the --

"Take the Quiz"

-- button.

Resource Title

The first quiz question asks which major online drug information resource you have chosen to use as a source for your monograph assignment.

If you are using this tutorial, you have chosen to use one of the following three resources:

LexiDrugs
Pediatric and Neonatal LexiDrugs
Geriatric LexiDrugs

LexiComp web address

When you search an online resource, the web address that appears in the browser's address box is often session-specific. A session-specific web address will not be helpful to someone looking at your bibliography.

Therefore, it's fine to just provide the web address for the resource's homepage and assume that your reader will be able to search for the specific article you've cited.

To obtain the address you need:

1. Go to the Library's homepage (should be present on the right-hand side of this window).

2. Click on the "Drug Resources" button.

screenshot of McGoogan Library homepage with arrow pointing to Drug Resources link

3. Right-click on the link to "LexiComp/LexiDrugs via LexiComp" and select the "copy link location" option (worded slightly differently in some browsers).

Screenshot of Drup Resources list with arrow pointing to the "LexiComp/DexiDrugs via LexiComp" link with arrow pointing to "copy link location" option in menu.

4. Paste the web address into the question 2 answer box.

 

Monograph Title

To find the monograph title, you will, of course, need to find the monograph.

Left click on the "LexiComp/LexiDrugs via LexiComp" link

A screenshot of the "drug resources" page. An arrow points to the "LexiComp/LexiDrugs vis LexiComp" link.

Login with your UNMC NetID if asked to do so.

Enter the name of your monograph assignment drug in the search box and hit the search button.

The screenshots in the tutorial will show a search for Montelukast and the Montelukast monograph. Do not search for Montelukast unless it is the monograph topic you have claimed.

Monograph Title

1 of 2The monograph title appears under the resource heading.

A screenshot with arrows pointing to the titles of the monographs in the three LexiDrug monograph sets.

An "Updated" date may be present, but such a date will only be present if the last update was recent.

Enter the monograph title in the answer box for Quiz question 3. Then click the link to go to the monograph.

Monograph Title

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In monographs obtained through the LexiComp interface the title of the monograph (red underline in figure) is above the "Outline" and is followed by the name of the resource in parentheses (green underline)

A screenshot of the monograph header.

Updated Date

In monographs provided through the LexiComp interface, the date of the last update is shown at the bottom of the monograph.

Scroll to the bottom of monograph (The monograph is in the right-hand frame).

A screenshot of the updated date

Enter the date as your response to quiz question 4.

Publisher

In online resources, the publisher's name typically appears in the webpage footer.

screenshot showing location of the publisher's name

Enter the publisher's name in response to quiz question 5.

Publisher's Location

When the publisher's location is not shown next to the publisher's name, look for a "Contact Us" link.  Unfortunately, that doesn't lead to a physical location.  

The next thing to try is doing a Google search for either the resource or publisher's name and the word "location".  A Google search for -- 

lexidrugs location

-- retrieves a page on referencing LexiComp resources from the publisher.  This page suggests using Hudson, OH as the publisher's location.

 

Accessed Date

Finally, enter today's date in response to question 7.

 

What if you were not going to use Zotero?

What if you were not going to use Zotero?

Tomorrow you will create a Zotero record using the information you have gathered. Zotero will make it easy to insert numbered in-text citations and to create a formatted bibliography.

If you were not going to use a program like Zotero, you would need to substitute the information you've gathered into the bibliography template for this type of reference. The template is as follows:

Article/chapter/monograph title. In: Resource Title. Publisher's city, Publisher's State: Publisher's name. web address. Updated _______. Accessed Month date, year.

Substituting the information from the tutorial's sample search produces the following bibliography entry (keep in mind that I updated the tutorial in July):

Montelukast. In: LexiDrugs. Hudson, OH: Wolters Kluwer Clinical Drug Information, Inc. https://library1.unmc.edu/login?url=https://online.lexi.com/lco/action/home?siteid=478. Updated July 15, 2019. Accessed July 17, 2019.

 

Next Assignment

During the next assignment, you will choose a monograph/chapter from a printed book to cite.

You should NOT cite the printed version of the online resource you have chosen to cite.

The Drug Information Handbook is the printed version of LexiDrugs.

The Pediatric and Neonatal Dosage Handbook is the printed version of Pediatric and Neonatal LexiDrugs.

The Geriatric Dosage Handbook is the printed version of Geriatric LexiDrugs.

Certificate

Please enter your name and email address to retrieve a copy of your completed quiz.

You can enter multiple email addresses separated by commas. If you are doing this for a class, you may need to enter your instructor's email address also.

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