Research Guides: Athletic Training: Article Databases

Research Databases - Medical, Health Professions

SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Sports and sports medicine indexing and full text articles. (See YouTube tutorial below, on the right.)
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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Citations to scholarly and professional journal articles in health and life sciences, with some links to full text
MEDLINE Ultimate This link opens in a new window
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Authoritative medical information; uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) This link opens in a new window
Physiotherapy Evidence Database of randomized trials, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
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Indexing for clinical trials and full text of systematic reviews in healthcare.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
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Medical, nursing, and allied health indexing and full text articles.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Nursing and allied health indexing and full text articles.
DynaMed Plus This link opens in a new window
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Clinical reference tool for use at point-of-care.
ScienceDirect College Edition This link opens in a new window
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Health and life sciences indexing and full text articles.
Journals@Ovid Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Medical, allied health, and life sciences indexing and full text articles.

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Research Databases - General, Academic

Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Indexing and full text articles for all levels and aspects of education, where much of athletic training occurs.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive, scholarly, multi-disciplinary indexing with full text articles.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary indexing with links to full text articles and monographs.