Guides: Physical Therapy Research Guide: Articles

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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A favorite for the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, medicine, and education, ASP indexes 8,200 periodicals. Full-text articles from 3,750 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals are found here, plus a number of popular sources.
Additional search help is available at: https://help.ebsco.com/interfaces/EBSCO_Guides/EBSCO_Interfaces_User_Guide
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) Complete This link opens in a new window
CINAHL is the professional source for full-text articles from over 580 journals in nursing and allied health. It also has citations and abstracts for many additional journals. Other publication types included are relevant legal cases, clinical innovations and trials, and citations to dissertations in nursing. CINAHL Headings help define search terms. Video tutorials for this database can be accessed here. The print indexes (vol. 1-21) cover the years 1965-1975 and are not duplicated in the online database. They can be found in DML 2nd floor Reference RT1 .C8
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Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Considered the “gold standard” for evidence-based practice, Cochrane Library is a collection of databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (“Reviews”), which has full-text evidence-based reviews of health care practices and treatments. Additional databases that are not full-text: abstracts of systematic reviews, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and citations to clinical trials.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
The academic side of Google is here, retrieving articles, chapters, books, and reports from university presses and other sources. Books out of copyright are here in full text. From the Settings, select "Library Links" to add Regis and see “Full Text @ My Library” among your search results.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
The largest index of medical literature, MEDLINE has citations and abstracts from more than 5,400 journals worldwide. The citations link to full-text in our other databases, where available. The MeSH subject headings help in selecting the best search terms.
Additional search help is available at: https://help.ebsco.com/interfaces/EBSCO_Guides/EBSCO_Interfaces_User_Guide
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. See PubMed User Guide for more information.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 350 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more. Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre.
Additional search help is available at: https://help.ebsco.com/interfaces/EBSCO_Guides/EBSCO_Interfaces_User_Guide
Trip Database This link opens in a new window
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. As well as research evidence, Trip also contains other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

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Searching with Keywords & Index Terms

Tutorial for Searching Databases with Keywords
A YouTube video on searching databases using keywords.
Tutorial for Searching with Index Terms
A YouTube video on searching databases using controlled vocabulary & MeSH.
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The Googles vs. Databases

Google-Database Comparison Table
Google is undoubtedly the most used search engine in the world and definitely has its place in quick information look-ups. However, what about when it comes to finding scholarly literature for your assignments? Does Google Scholar do a good job at that? Or, do you really need an authoritative and reliable resource. That is where a database comes in like we have here through the library. From Ebscohost to Lexis you will find what you need in one of our multitude of resources. Searching may take a little practice, but once you know how to use these powerful research tools you will be glad you did.