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Last update: Nov 19th, 2009 URL: http://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/physiotherapy  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Collection: Wellcome Images

B0005784 Credit Oliver Burston, Wellcome Images
Transparent female form running. The brain, lungs, heart, adrenal glands and liver are shown along with the long bones of the leg and the hamstring and quadriceps muscles.
Digital artwork/Computer graphic 2004 

Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc-nd 2.0 UK

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Key databases

This list of databases consists of some of the core databases that you will use when conducting Medical research.

  • Medline via OvidSP (1950 - present)  
    MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine´s premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the preclinical sciences, health administration, and the health care system.
  • CINAHL via EBSCOhost (1981 - present)  
    A major resource for allied health professionals and nurses. Includes some full text articles with coverage of allied health, management, behavioural sciences, biomedicine and education.
  • PEDro : The Physiotherapy Evidence DataBase  
    A useful resource developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for q
  • AMED : Allied and Complementary Medicine via OvidSP (1985 - present)  
    A useful specialised database of citations and abstracts for physicians, therapists, medical researchers and clinicians covering allied health and alternative treatments to conventional medicine.
  • SPORTDiscus via EBSCO  
    A major resource covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education and biomechanics.
  • Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge  
    One of the largest Science databases. Provides access to current and retrospective information from high impact research journals. Web of Science also provides citation analysis of authors, journals and subject areas.
  • See Full list of Physiotherapy Databases  
 

Basic Search Tips

Never searched a database before? Here are some tips to get you started:

  • Identify key concepts. e.g. 'physiotherapy' and 'aged'
  • Brainstorm synonyms for each key concept. e.g. 'physical therapy', 'elderly' 
  • Use truncation to get more results. e.g. 'elder*' will find 'elder', 'elders', 'elderly' etc
  • Use double quotation marks to search for a phrase. e.g. "physical therapy" 
  • Use brackets to group like terms together e.g. ("physical therapy" OR "physiotherapy")
  • Combine synonyms with OR and key concepts with AND e.g. ("physical therapy" OR "physiotherapy") AND (aged OR elder*)

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Database News

The Cinahl database has moved from OvidSP to the EBSCO platform. Please contact your Faculty Liasion Librarian if you would like help using the EBSCO interface or watch this shot clip on using Cinahl via Ebsco.

 

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