Access to the BP Online is available to purchasers of the British Pharmacopoeia 2008.
The purchase of one copy of British Pharmacopoeia 2008 provides licensed access to the BP 2008 CD-ROM and Online Web Portal on a named single-user basis. The licence is granted solely to the designated holder of the product within your organisation.
To order your copy of the CD-ROM, or to enable your access to the BP Online, you are required to register your proof of purchase using the link below. You will be asked to provide contact details and proof of purchase using the unique reference which can be found printed on the inside cover of Volume I of the British Pharmacopoeia 2008.
Upon authentication, the CD-ROM will be despatched to you, or your unique username and password confirmed for access to the BP Online.
If you plan to, or already access the British Pharmacopoeia on the web from more than one workstation, you are legally bound to purchase a multi-user licence. To discuss obtaining a multi-user licence, please register your interest using the same link below, or contact The Stationery Office on 0870 600 5522 or email pharmahealth@tso.co.uk .
The BP 2008 Website is simply laid out and designed to be intuitive and easy to use. Features include:
For contact details please visit the contact us page.
On the left hand side of all pages is an area with the two linked headings Search and Browse. Simply click on the chosen heading to go directly to the required facility.
Hyperlinks are indicated by underlined text and the cursor changes to a hand as it rolls over a link - click to follow the link to that record.
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The results of browsing or searching are displayed on the right of the page.
If your search found more than one record, a summary list will be displayed. If your search only found a single record, this record will be displayed without first showing a summary.
The summary list allows you to browse through the records found by your search and to select a record to view.
Records are presented in batches of 100. Use the 'Next 100' and 'Previous 100' links to step through the result. Alternatively, to view all the results as a single list, use the 'Show all' link. (Note though that for large results, this may strain your browser.)
To select an individual record for viewing, click its title.
This gives a full description of individual records. You can ask to see the record details of any of the records in the summary list.
If there is more text than will fit on a screen, use the scroll bar to view the rest. To jump immediately to the next highlighted search hit, click on the single right arrow above the record. To jump immediately to the previous highlighted search hit, click on the single left arrow above the record. The double right arrows and double left arrows take you directly to the last and first of the search hits respectively.
Click on the Hit List link to re-display the Summary list.
Use the First, Previous, Next and Last links to take you to the corresponding record in the search result.
A Printer-friendly link is also available. This opens the monograph in a new browser window, excluding website elements and thus excellently suited for printing.
Diagrams and tables shown in monographs can also be clicked to present a larger version of the image.
The following colour coding and symbols are used:
To print a page, use your browser's Print facility. Note also that a printer-friendly version of monographs is available for printing. This allows a monograph to be printed at full page width and without the surrounding website elements (header, footer etc).
The hierarchical structure of BP 2008 can be browsed as though you were browsing through the book.
Click on Browse on the left. You will be presented with links to the six volumes:
Clicking on these links will either expand the table of contents to the next available level, or perform a search to present the contents of the selected section on the right of the page. Expanded sections can be collapsed by clicking on them again.
A search box is always available in the page header. Type a word or term into this box and click the Search button to search the entirety of the British Pharmacopoeia 2008 and British Approved Names. The search will find articles and monographs that match all the terms you have entered, and is not case sensitive.
To search a specific volume, use the Advanced Search accessible from a link in the page header, and via the Search link on the left of the page. This presents Text and Title boxes allowing you to search either the whole of the BP 2008 text or only monograph titles.
Checkboxes on the Advanced Search form allow you to further restrict your searches to British, European, or Internationally harmonised monographs, and to specific volumes or areas of BP 2008.
For example, to search a specific volume, enter your terms in the search fields and select the checkbox for the volume you wish to search.
Selecting multiple checkboxes broadens your search to all of the selected volumes or areas. For example, selecting Volume III and Volume IV will search both volumes.
Three wildcard characters can be used to replace parts of terms.
Care should be taken when using wildcard characters. Entering 'a*' in the Text search box, for example, could take a considerable time to search.
The Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT can be used to combine search terms. These operators can be used in upper case in the Text and Title search boxes.
There are several ways of searching for terms that may be next to each other or within a few words:
The system has rules for carrying out searches where more than one operator is present. Each operator has a precedence that determines the order in which it is processed. The operators with the highest precedence are processed first. The order of precedence of the operators is:
You can override the precedence by using round brackets ( ). Any operators in round brackets will be processed first.