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The IDIS database consists of full-text articles and an index of article citations selected from 200 peer-reviewed English language journals.

Articles for the IDIS database are selected from 200 peer-reviewed English language medical and pharmaceutical journals covering a wide range of topics. Among the areas covered are pharmacy and pharmacology, general and internal medicine, infectious disease and immunology, transplant, cardiovascular, rheumatology, microbiology, geriatrics, and endocrinology.

IDIS staff index those articles that pertain to drug use in humans, identifying the main drugs and diseases. Descriptors, such as type of article, routes of administration, side effects and pharmacokinetics, are used to help specify information contained in each article, facilitating easy retrieval of relevant articles.

IDIS has been indexing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Approval Packages [formerly known as Summary Basis of Approval Equivalents (SBA)] since 1998. These contain key studies which have been submitted to the FDA by the pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Product Description	Updated	Access	Status	Platform
IOWA Drug Information Service 1966 to Present	Monthly	Internet	Released	Ovid
IOWA Drug Information Service-Monthly Update-1966 to Present	Monthly	Internet,Local	Released	SilverPlatter

• Medline (1950-Date)
• Academic Medicine
• AMED - Allied and Complementary Medicine Database
• Clinical Pharmacokinetics
• Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology
• Drugs
• Drug Safety
• Hospital Pharmacy
• International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
• Journal of the American Geriatrics Society