Physiotherapy

• CINAHL 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

What:

• CINAHL (the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) contain journal article abstracts with links to the full-text where available

Why:

• Locate articles from the nursing and allied health subjects

How:

• Keyword and Thesaurus searching with ability to refine results by date, peer reviewed, age, gender, author, language
• Cited reference search and links
• Help pages available
• This database is available to search on its own from the link above, plus you will find Cinahl results when searching Discovery

Using CINAHL/MeSH Subject Headings 

• The Cochrane Library 

What:

• The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making and is the leading source to support evidence based practice

Why:

• Locate systematic reviews, clinical trials and find abstracts of economic evaluations of health care interventions.

How:

• Keyword and Thesaurus searching with ability to refine results by database searched;
  • The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects,
  • The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
  • The Cochrane Methodology Register
  • Health Technology Assessment Database
  • NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
• Help pages available 

• Google Scholar 

What

• A variant of Google that searches for academic literature

Why

• Provides access to articles, books, conference papers and preprints
• Links to Full-text @ Portsmouth where available when settings are applied

How

• Simple or advanced searching allowing refinement by date, author etc
• A Library Guide to this resource is available

• Medline 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

What

• Medline contain journal article abstracts with links to the full-text where available

Why

• Subjects covered include veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. Plus life sciences, including some aspects of biology, marine biology, plant and animal science as well as biophysics and chemistry.

How

• Keyword and Thesaurus searching with ability to refine results by date, article type, age, gender, author, language
• Help pages available
• This database is available to search on its own from the link above, plus you will find Medline results when searching Discovery.

• NIHR Journals Library 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

The NIHR (National Institute of Health Research) Journals Library provides full publication and open access to an extensive body of health research. It comprises a suite of five programme-specific journal series, published online, which are fully searchable and provide a comprehensive record of work funded by these NIHR programmes.

• PubMed 

PubMed comprises millions of 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 websites

• Science Direct 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

ScienceDirect's extensive and unique full text database covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature, published by Elsevier. More than 2,500 journals and more than nine million full-text articles are available in ScienceDirect providing access to the physical sciences and engineering life sciences. This resource is also available through the Discovery service. A Science Direct Advanced Search guide video is available.

• Scopus 

• TRIP Database 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

The TRIP Database is a clinical search engine designed to allow clinicians to quickly find answers to their clinical questions using the best available evidence. The TRIP Database started in 1997 as a result of the work of the founders in answering clinical questions. They recognised that searching multiple websites separately for relevant information was time-consuming. The creation of the TRIP Database allowed the simultaneous searching of multiple sites, hence speeding up the question answering process

• Web of Science 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

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