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Evidence-based Research Resources

PEDro
EDro is a Physiotherapy Evidence-Based Medicine database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy.

AHQR: Evidence-based Practice This link opens in a new window
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. This section focuses specifically on evidence-based practice.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
reviews of research on the effects of health care interventions. Its primary section, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, contains more than 1,370 regularly updated full-text reviews mainly of randomized controlled trials.

GuidelineCentral
Free access to thousands of current clinical practice guidelines and guideline summaries.

National Guideline Clearinghouse This link opens in a new window
a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
An evidence-based, peer reviewed source of medical information.

OT Seeker
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. Most trials have been critically appraised for their validity and interpretability. In one database, OTseeker provides fast and easy access to information from a wide range of sources to inform occupational therapy.

Periodical Databases

BioMedCentral This link opens in a new window
BioMed Central is a leader in the Open Access publishing movement. This database includes full-text articles from more than 100 peer-reviewed biomedical journals.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive coverage of the English language journal literature related to nursing and the allied health disciplines.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Premier biomedical database. It covers national and international literature on all aspects of biomedicine, including the allied health fields.
APA PsychINFO This link opens in a new window
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics.

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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
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).
Sage Premier This link opens in a new window
Electronic access to more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals including a many in the health and biomedical sciences.

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SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 750,000 records in sport, physical fitness, and related fields, from international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.
ScienceDirect Journals This link opens in a new window
Thousands of full-text journal articles from the publisher Elsevier.
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Science Citation Index This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences, with all cited references captured.
Digital Commons Network This link opens in a new window
Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide including a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Alt-HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 160 complementary, alternative, and holistic health care publications, about 20 of which are peer-reviewed.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database providing access to over 4,500 publications with full text coverage for more than 3,500 scholarly journals