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Physical Therapy Databases

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
MeSH
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed.

MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains citations from over 5,600 medical journals with full text to over 2,100 titles. Full text goes back as far as 1865, with no embargo periods. The ability to search by MeSH terms, browse the index of terms, and search for images are also available.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text 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 520 journals going back to 1985. (Ebsco)
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect College Edition (Health and Life Sciences Module) contains 1,146 peer-reviewed journals going back to 1995 covering Biology, Kinesiology and Nursing. There is also significant free content in the Physical Sciences, Engineering, Business, Psychology, Sociology, Education, Criminal Justices, and the Humanities. Some books chapters are offered for free as well.
Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new window
Provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. (ProQuest)
Nursing Full-Text LWW Journals This link opens in a new window
Ovid Nursing Database includes information from Journals@Ovid and MEDLINE, the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) premier bibliographic database. Includes full text of 179 premier nursing journals. (Ovid)

Credo Reference - Medicine
MANY encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference books and graphic images. You may search titles individually, all at once, by major subject categories, or in any combination.

CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Journal articles, health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, and book chapters as well as full-text evidence-based care sheets, lessons, and continuing education modules with coverage dating back to 1937.(Ebsco)
Health and Medicine This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing to 989 health related titles and full text to 769 titles. Also includes more than 2,500 topical overviews from Clinical Reference Systems. (Gale OneFile)
Health and Wellness This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing to 900 health related journals (with full text to 75%) as well as health related articles from an additional 2,200 general interest publications and hundreds of videos. (Gale)

PEDro Physiotherapy Evidence Database
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 36,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice. PEDro is produced by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at The George Institute for Global Health and is hosted by Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).

STAT!Ref This link opens in a new window
This link provides consolidated access to STAT!Ref's 3D Human Anatomy and Physiology, AAFP Conditions A to Z, MedCalc 3000, and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. It also includes a link to download the Stat!Ref mobile app, Training Center tutorials, and more.
Stedman's Medical Dictionary (STAT!Ref) This link opens in a new window
Welcome to the 28th edition of Stedman's Medical Dictionary. This edition continues the long-standing tradition of a quality medical terminology reference that you have come to expect from Stedman's.