Research Guides by Subject
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This portal is designed to help health & rehabilitation science students & faculty get started with their research. It features in-depth guides by subject area, and a full list of health science databases.
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Health Science Databases
- CINAHL: Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature This link opens in a new window Covers journal publications from the nursing and allied health professions. While it primarily covers journal citations, it also includes book chapter abstracts, dissertations, and conference abstracts. Date coverage: 1981 - present.
- PubMed This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of abstracts to the biomedical literature. Includes medicine, the allied health disciplines, and biomedical literature. Date Coverage: 1809 (selectively) - present.
- Embase This link opens in a new window Embase.com is the database equivalent of EXCERPTA MEDICA. It is a comprehensive, international database covering Anesthesiology, Human Genetics, Gerontology, Drug Research, Pharmacology, Drug Side Effects and Interactions, Toxicology, Human Medicine (Clinical and Experimental), including Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Basic Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Biomedicine, Health Policy and Management, Pharmacoeconomics, Public and Occupational Health, Environmental Health, Pollution Control, Substance Dependence and Abuse, Psychiatry, Forensic Science, Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Nursing.
- APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window PsycInfo provides access to journal articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations that cover the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. It includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Date coverage: 1894-
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window Web of Science is one of the core general science databases covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and allows the user to search conference proceedings.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window Consists of three database: the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Cochrane Clinical Answers.
- Education Database This link opens in a new window Education Database provides access to a large number of academic publications, including many articles in full text. The coverage spans all levels of education and is particularly strong in the topics of special education, educational administration, early childhood education, and higher education. Date coverage: 1988 - present.
- APA PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window PsycTESTS provides descriptive summaries and the full text, when available, for thousands of non-commercial psychological tests and measures. Also provided are summaries of commercially available tests with links to the publisher. It includes a wide variety of test types in many subject areas and, if available, gives supporting documentation such as instructions, scoring guides, and answer sheets. Updated monthly.
- ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) This link opens in a new window ERIC is a collection of journal articles, association reports, conference papers, government documents, books and other materials on education-related topics. Some items are available in full text. This database is particularly useful for public policy, curriculum studies, administration, and youth literature. Date coverage: 1960s - present with some earlier items.
- Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window Provides evidence-based, clinical information on alternative and complimentary medicines.
- DynaMed This link opens in a new window Evidence-based reference tool containing summaries for nearly 2000 topics of diseases, disorders, and symptoms, with information on etiology, associated conditions, history and research findings, differential diagnosis and diagnostic testing, prognosis, treatment, prevention, and links to patient information. Summaries are derived from peer-reviewed sources.
- Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new window Features videos on how to do head-to-toe assessments for physical examinations.
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders This link opens in a new window Geared for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health practitioners, the DSM-5 provides comprehensive guidelines for diagnosing mental disorders. Published in 2013.
- Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials This link opens in a new window Consists of entries on on the basic concepts, methodologies, and applications in clinical trials.
- General Science Full Text This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary science database designed for students and non-specialists. Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health, medicine, oceanography, physics, and zoology. Covers leading journals and magazines, biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, and special issues of journals. Also covers the New York Times Science Section and cites book reviews. Date coverage: abstracts 1984 - present, selected full text 1995 - present.
- STAT+ This link opens in a new window STAT+ offers original reporting and analysis of breaking news in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industry.
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Online Video Tutorials
These online videos are designed to help get you started with various aspects of health & rehabilitation research. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for additional videos.