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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect focuses on peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and medical research in the life sciences, health sciences, physical sciences and engineering. Some full-text and some open access.
SportDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index to articles on physical education, physical training, sports medicine, sports industry business topics, and other sports-related topics. Links to full-text in other databases.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text for 500 journals - which have no embargo. Coverage is back 1981. CINAHL is the core research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. 3000 journals are indexed. Cinahl gives author affiliations and offers searchable cited references.

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ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new window
This database offers reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more.
Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world. PubMed® provides free access to MEDLINE and links to full text articles when possible.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources when possible.
Rehabilitation Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
The largest and richest streaming video resource ever assembled for the study of occupational therapy, physical/physiotherapy, and speech-language pathology. The collection allows students and faculty to easily find, cite, and share footage of top clinicians and academics explaining the underlying anatomical and neurological issues in specific patient populations, while demonstrating effective techniques and methods for their treatment. All of the video has been thoroughly indexed to allow users to search and filter content by patient details, therapist specialization, treatment method, presenting problem, and more.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Full text of scholarly and professional nursing journals covering many different types of nursing. Contains consumer-oriented drug information through a partnership with Lexi-Pals.
Alt HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides information directed towards the needs of the patients, and to help the understanding of health-related topics.
JBI EBP Database This link opens in a new window
Includes evidence–based information, as well as the tools that help healthcare professionals implement an effective evidence–based practice program. From the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).

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Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides information directed towards the needs of the patients, and to help the understanding of health-related topics.
OCLC WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Includes records from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. A discovery and verification tool.

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JOSPT
Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) publishes scientifically rigorous, clinically relevant content for members of the health care community to advance musculoskeletal and sports-related practice globally. Full-text is available from 1979.

AMA MANUAL of STYLE, 11th ed. Online by American Medical Association Staff (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780190246556
Publication Date: 2020-03-02
The AMA Manual of Style is a must-have resource for anyone involved in medical, health, and scientific publishing. Written by an expert committee of JAMA Network editors, this latest edition addresses issues that face authors, editors, and publishers in the digital age. Extensive updates areincluded in the References chapter, with examples of how to cite digital publications, preprints, databases, data repositories, podcasts, apps and interactive games, and social media. Full-color examples grace the chapter on data display, with newer types of graphic presentations and updatedguidance on formatting tables and figures. The manual thoroughly covers ethical and legal issues such as authorship, conflicts of interest, scientific misconduct, intellectual property, open access and public access, and corrections. The Usage chapter has been revised to bring the manual up-to-dateon word choice, especially in writing about individuals with diseases or conditions and from various socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and sexual orientation populations.Specific nomenclature entries in many disciplines are presented to guide users in issues of diction, formatting, and preferred terminology. Guidance on numbers, SI units, and math has been updated, and the section on statistics and study design has undergone a major expansion. In sum, the answer tonearly any issue facing a writer or editor in medicine, health care, and related disciplines can be found in the 11th edition of the AMA Manual of Style.

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Google Scholar

What is google scholar? How should I use it?

Google Scholar is a time-saving, scholarly search interface accessible from within the Google interface. With Google Scholar, you can access peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book sections. For literature searching, specialized databases have more functionality and access more comprehensive results, but Google Scholar is a good tool to use for a search for a known item.