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. IPA Journal List is published in the January 15 issue and in the IPA User's Guide , RS 1 .I6721 . Covers approximately 10,000 substances. Entries give Chemical Abstracts Service name, alternate names, chemical formula and sometimes molecular structure, physical properties, uses, toxicity data, journal and patent references.