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Physical Therapy
- PubMed
Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology. PubMed includes the MEDLINE database, but has newer content and additional life science journals. PubMed is late 1940s-current.
1940s-current.
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PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier database of scholarly citations covering nearly 4,500 journals published in the U.S. and more than 70 other countries. New citations are added weekly.
PubMed is more current than MEDLINE via EBSCO and in addition to providing access to MEDLINE, PubMed provides access to:
- The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE
- Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing
- Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral(c) and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
- PEDro: The Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Scholarly evidence-based journal articles about physical therapy/physiotherapy. Includes only systematic reviews or other articles that report research results. Not comprehensive.
1929-current.
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- Scopus
Scholarly journal articles and conference papers on any topic in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Includes cited references and h-index information.
1996-present for cited reference searching; partial coverage, without references, to 1823.
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Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Scholarly journal articles about nursing and allied health. Includes nursing interventions, management, education, theory, and history. Also includes allied health topics such as physical and occupational therapy.
1981-current.
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CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) indexes over 950 English-language nursing and allied health journals and publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing. Includes full-text for more than 580 journals.
CINAHL also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioral sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health.
Indexes books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments.
Subjects include:
- Aging
- AIDS
- Cancer
- Diseases
- Healthcare
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Public Health
- Rehabilitation
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
Comprehensive database of full-text evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents.
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