The second half is a classified arrangement of categories and sub categories which is useful in finding the most specific term under which a subject might be indexed. Lists journals by abbreviation, full title, subject category, and country. A recent copy is kept at the Reference Desk . Published by the American Association of Hospital Pharmacists. IPA indexes approximately 700 pharmacy and pharmacy related journals.
Abstracts are fairly short and are signed.
Issued twice a month with semi-annual cumulations. IPA covers pharmaceutical technology, institutional pharmacy practice, pharmacy, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, adverse drug reactions and toxicology, microbiology, environmental toxicology and law, history education and information science as they relate to pharmacy. Major parts are the author and subject index. IPA uses a controlled vocabulary, but there are numerous cross references in the subject index. Chemical substances are indexed by the complete chemical name.