CINAHL stands for Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. This database provides full text for more than 1,400 journals and indexing for over 3,000 journals.
See EBSCO Connect for how to search using CINAHL Subject Headings.
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Contains different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It consists of the following resources:
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
• Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
• Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA)
A comprehensive online PT resource that covers the spectrum of physical therapy. It consists of over 30 books, 400 videos and 10 cases on physical examination, evaluation, intervention, and rehabilitation.
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This database allows you to search simultaneously, a wide range of summarized and appraised evidence, to inform your practice. It covers global, current & relevant evidence in health subjects & specialties. A unique suite of information helping healthcare professionals integrate evidence into practice.
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A database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions.
PEDro is a free database of over 35,000 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. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice.
A full-text database produced by the American Psychological Association (APA). It provides access to over 196,000 full-text articles in psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines. The journal coverage dates back more than a century and most journal issues from Volume 1, Issue 1.
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A free resource developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. It provides online access to over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE (also searchable via OneSearch), life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the allied health, physical therapy, health education chemical sciences, bioengineering etc.
See PubMed Subject Guide and PubMed Online Training for search tips.
It provides access to more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals panning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine. Online access goes back to 1999, where available.
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It provides online access to more than 2000 ejournals and 1000 ebooks.
Subject collections include Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Food Technology, Health Sciences, Hospitality Management etc.
Access coverage of Freedom Collection: 1995 - Present
Access coverage of the following ejournal collections: Vol 1 - present
- Business, Management and Accounting Collection
- Chemical Engineering collection
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences, including Supplement 1
See Subject Guide for details on accessing to ScienceDirect eBooks.
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It provides access to more than 1,000 online journals across the collections below:
• Allied & Public Health
• Business Management & Economics
• Engineering, Computing & Technology
• Medicine & Dentistry
• Sport, Leisure & Tourism
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Access to nearly 140 eTextbooks covering a wide range of subjects published by Pearson, Wiley, Cengage, McGraw Hill, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Cambridge University Press.
If you are new to VItalSource, you will need to create a Vitalsource account in order to access and download the ebooks.
Access to over 18,000 eBooks related to Business & Economics, Engineering, Food Science & Technology, Health Sciences, Information Technology, Medicine, Nursing, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences etc.
It provides academic videos in the subject areas of allied health, career management, education, engineering, hospitality & tourism, languages, sociology, sciences, technology and more.
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Provides access to more than 200 videos clips of patient assessment case studies for the physical and occupational therapy. In addition, 3 videos on StrokeHelp are also available for access.
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This database contains more than 300 three-dimensional videos of real human anatomic specimens in their natural colors. Coverage includes upper extremity, lower extremity, trunk, head & neck, and internal organs. This resource also offers self-assessment/Q&A and PDF transcripts.
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This is an interactive atlas of human anatomy. It consists of 18,000+ diagrams, CT, MRI, Radiographs, images etc. The content is organized by modules, each module presents medical imaging examinations (e.g. CT scans and MRI) with annotated anatomical structures and diagrams.
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