Databases

Physical Therapy

Recommended Databases

  • Comprehensive source for nursing and allied health journals with extensive full text.

  • Full-text of four databases important to evidence based medicine.

  • Journal articles and clinical and consumer health publications (some in full text) on a variety of health and medical topics; also provides definitions, overviews, book excerpts, pamphlets.

  • Comprehensive journal index from the National Library of Medicine to over 4,600 biomedical journals.

  • Enormous index to scholarly journals in all disciplines. Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from the first issue to the present. Provides the ability to search on cited references as well as more typical search criteria.

Related Databases

  • Innovative learning aid that allows students to examine virtual 3D dissections.

  • Nearly 600 scholarly full text journals in many nursing and medical disciplines; also indexing and abstracting for 615 more; updated daily.

  • Innovative learning aid that allows students to examine virtual 3D dissections.

  • Comprehensive journal index from the National Library of Medicine to over 4,600 biomedical journals.

  • Full text online edition of the Merck Manual.

  • PEDro is a free database of over 27,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible.