Introduction

The database is a resource for experts in psychopharmacology and related biomedical disciplies. It contains bibliographic details of nearly 10,00 references published between 1951 and the present day, and includes abstracts, journal articles, book chapters and books. Lists of standardized keywords are used to index the citations. Most of the keywords are generic drug names but they also include methodological terms, species studied and drug classes. This index makes it possible to selectively retrieve references according to the drugs used as the training stimuli, drugs used as test stimuli, drugs used as pretreatments, species, etc. by entering your own terms or by using our comprehensive lists of search terms.

You can search the database by entering your own terms from the keyboard or by picking from lists of all the terms in the database. Simple searches can be performed from most pages by using the facilities at the top of the right side of most pages. For more complex and better defined searches, you should go to the Advanced Search page. You can also download the bibliographic files to run on your own computer, which requires appropriate software. The bibliography is updated about four times per year.

This bibliographic database is maintained by Dr Richard A Meisch (The University of Texas at Houston, Texas, USA), Dr Ian P Stolerman (Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK) and Dr Vladimir Tsibulsky (University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA). Brief biographical information about the team members is available. There have been many others who have made significant contributions as well.

The primary URL for the database is www.drugsrefs.org but it is also accessible through the URLs that previously accessed Ian Stolerman's Drug Discrimination database and Richard Meisch's Drug Self-administration database. The older websites have been closed down and are no longer accessible.

Important note
A substantial proportion of the drug self-administration references are not yet fully indexed. This means that the keywords for these references are incomplete. At present it is NOT RECOMMENDED to search for publications of drug self-administration research by means of keywords. Searches may be made by author names, titles of papers, journals, etc. Many references will not be retrieved by keyword searches. Keywords may be used to search for drug discirmination research without this limitation.

What this database is not for!
The database is not a source of information (1) for obtaining medical advice relating to addictive or other diseases or (2) for advice about how to obtain prescription drugs for clinical purposes or (3) for help with obtaining drugs for recreational or other non-medical uses.