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CINAHL Complete
Scholarly research, quick summaries, and evidence-based information sheets covering 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine, and more.
PubMed
Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. Use this link for easy access to UJ subscriptions from PubMed search results.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews will help you identify systematic reviews and protocols. It's worth noting that you won't always able to access the full text of the studies. You'll need to try and track down the full-text of the study using a research database such as Medline.
MEDLINE
Contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world with full-text articles from PubMed when possible.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium
Reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text.
SportDiscus with Full Text
Indexes journal articles on physical education, physical training, sports medicine, and other sports-related topics. Some full text.

Trip Database
The Trip Database is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.
PEDro
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. 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. PEDro is produced by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at The George Institute for Global Health and is hosted by Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).

Sigma Repository
An open digital repository that freely collects, preserves, and disseminates full-text nursing research, educational, and evidence-based practice materials in a variety of formats and item types.