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CINAHL provides indexing for journals about nursing and related fields. It offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters and more.
Medline Plus is an open-access version of the MEDLINE database, geared toward the public consumer, with information from the National Library of Medicine about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues. It also contains extensive references and articles, from 1966 to the present, with special collections on different health topics, medical tests, drugs and supplements, and more.
This index covers the huge volume of scholarly or peer-reviewed literature in the field of physical education from kinesiology, fitness tests and motor learning to recreation, sports equipment and coaching. This wide ranging database will help locate articles on sports psychology/sociology as well as physical and occupational therapy.
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). It contains more than 5 million full-text records, spanning several centuries of biomedical and life science research, from the late 1700s to present.
Provided by the American Psychological Association, APA PsycINFO offers access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. When you search APA PsycINFO, you are also searching the ProQuest Psychology Database and the APA PsycARTICLES database.
Provides scholarly research and information for education students, professionals and policy makers. Covers all levels of education - from early childhood to higher education - and educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides access to hundreds of full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines, specifically nursing and allied health. Coverage for this database extends from 1958 - present.
MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM, United States). It contains millions of references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. It indexes literature published from 1966 to the present.
The Physiotherapy Evidence Database provides physiotherapists around the world with easy access to high-quality clinical research so they can practice and teach effectively. PEDro is a well-established, robust and trusted site that provides access to over 64,000 randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines relevant to physiotherapy.
The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It facilitates searching across several NLM resources, including MEDLINE and PubMed Central. Coverage extends from the 1940s to the present day.
Science Direct is the search engine for journals published by Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of science, technical, and medical journals. Access to articles is different for this database. Because there is a charge for each article downloaded, students need a professor or librarian to retrieve articles.
The Social Sciences Citation Index contains more than 3,000 across 58 social sciences disciplines, as well as selected items from the world’s leading scientific and technical journals. Approaching 10 million records, the content dates back from 1900 to present.
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature of sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Web of Science (WoS) indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, and other formats. Its major subject areas include the natural and social sciences and arts and humanities, with coverage for all areas back to 1900. The heart of WoS is the "Core Collection," which contains records of articles from the highest impact journals worldwide—including open access journals.
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