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This guide 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.
Please use the information on the right to contact me if I can assist you with any of these tools and resources. I look forward to working with you!
Find Journal Articles
- 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.
- 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. Materials range from 1809 Onwards, with more recent decades better represented.
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowProvides access to articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations that cover the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
- Embase This link opens in a new windowA key biomedical database that is especially helpful if you are looking for international literature.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This database is a core general science resource, 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 to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
- ERIC (via ProQuest) 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.
Background Sources
- STAT!Ref This link opens in a new windowStat!Ref is a web-based platform that aggregates core health sciences books (textbooks, handbooks, drug books, dictionaries, indexes) from leading publishers. It provides cross-search in medical textbooks and resources as well as access to the full texts of these books through the table of contents.
- Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials This link opens in a new windowConsists of entries on on the basic concepts, methodologies, and applications in clinical trials.
- 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.
Evidence Summaries
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews This link opens in a new window
A collection of systematic reviews on the impact of health-related interventions & treatments. Updated regularly.
- Natural Medicines This link opens in a new windowProvides 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.
