BOOKS:
Use the Library OneSearch to find books and journals.
E-BOOK COLLECTION: The Library has a large collection of Health & Biological Sciences electronic books. You can search for these using the catalog and limit to electronic book.
JOURNALS:
You can also view the relevent eJournals collections: Health & Biological Science journals and publisher journal packages.
To determine whether the library subscribes to a particular journal either electronically or in paper search by journal title in the catalog.
CITATION SEARCHING:
Use the Citation Linker to locate an exact citation.
ARTICLE DATABASE LIST:
Use theA-Z list of article databases listed alphabetically
If we don't have your article electronically or in print try borrowing through InterLibrary Loan.
Use the Library OneSearch to find books and journals.
E-BOOK COLLECTION: The Library has a large collection of Health & Biological Sciences electronic books. You can search for these using the catalog and limit to electronic book.
JOURNALS:
You can also view the relevent eJournals collections: Health & Biological Science journals and publisher journal packages.
To determine whether the library subscribes to a particular journal either electronically or in paper search by journal title in the catalog.
CITATION SEARCHING:
Use the Citation Linker to locate an exact citation.
ARTICLE DATABASE LIST:
Use theA-Z list of article databases listed alphabetically
If we don't have your article electronically or in print try borrowing through InterLibrary Loan.
CINAHL Complete is a comprehensive and highly-authoritative database for research in nursing and health sciences. SPORTDiscus Topics include physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, kinesiology, biomechanics, movement science, physical therapy, rehabilitation, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport psychology. EBP databases:
Cochrane Library A collection of databases that contain evidence for healthcare decision-making. Includes systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials. How to export to Refworks.
PEDro The Physiotherapy Evidence Database provides information on "randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy."
JAMA Evidence JAMAevidence is an instructional resource from the American Medical Association covering the fundamental concepts of evidence-based medicine (EBM). Includes downloadable PowerPoint slide sets for teaching, as well and the full electronic text of the book, Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice by Gordon Guyatt. Note: Limited to 2 concurrent users.
Pubmed Health Reviews of clinical effectiveness research, with easy-to-read summaries for consumers as well as full technical reports
Learning tools to foster evidence based practice in physical therapy. (Limited to paid APTA members)
**View list of all Physical Therapy databases or database list by subject.
ERIC The standard database for resources in education including journal articles from research/scholarly and practitioner literature from 1966 through the present, with online direct full-text for ERIC documents from 1992-present. How to export to RefWorks
HealthScience: Sage Full-text HealthScience: Sage Full-text includes the full text of 26 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 46,000 articles and up to 129 years of backfiles.
PsycINFO PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Web of Science provides access to Science Citation Index (SCI) and is one of the best resources to perform cited reference searches (locate articles that cite an earlier publication). How to export to RefWorks
- Researching with CINAHL tutorial
- Essential elements of a Literature Review guide (UC Santa Cuz)
- Evidence-Based Medicine Research tutorial Excellent tutorial teaching the concepts of Evidence-Based medicine developed by Duke University Medical Center Library and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Science Library.
- PICO Method - Using evidence-based approach to literature review searching (U of Warwick Library)
- Introduction to research designs -Study design tutorial - (CEBM)
- Full-text links in Google Scholar
Julia Rodriguez
Associate Professor / Health Sciences & Scholarly Communications Librarian
juliar@oakland.edu
Schedule a research consultation (Fall & Winter only) - Currently all consultaions are conducted via GoogleMeet.
If none of the time slots work for you or if there are none available, email me directly and suggest a date & time and I will do my best to accommodate you.
APTA site The website for the American Physical Therapy Association which provides members online access to it's journal and news magazines.
National Guideline Clearinghouse is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
The NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries (formerly PRODIGY) are a reliable source of evidence-based information and practical 'know how' about the common conditions managed in primary care. (UK based)
TRIP
A free clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. Simultaneously searches several evidence-based sources of systematic reviews, practice guidelines, and critically-appraised topics and articles. Also searches MEDLINE's Clinical Queries, medical image databases, e-textbooks, and patient information leaflets.
National Guideline Clearinghouse is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
The NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries (formerly PRODIGY) are a reliable source of evidence-based information and practical 'know how' about the common conditions managed in primary care. (UK based)
TRIP
A free clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. Simultaneously searches several evidence-based sources of systematic reviews, practice guidelines, and critically-appraised topics and articles. Also searches MEDLINE's Clinical Queries, medical image databases, e-textbooks, and patient information leaflets.
Kresge Library subcriptions include free access for the OU community to both RefWorks. This online personal database of references helps you generate a bibliography from your list of references automatically formatted in any common citation style.
Citation Style Guides: