Databases
25 Databases have been found in this area.
Health and Sport
Contains citations in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
A video platform for clinical and counseling psychology. Provides instructors, practitioners, and trainees the opportunity to observe candid psychotherapy videos featuring well known therapists.
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination is a teaching resource consisting of anatomy and system specific videos. Each video shows a step by step examination. The database represents a broad spectrum of ages and cultural backgrounds for both patients and clinicians. Includes information on health history, documentation, communication, and, patient interactions.
An interactive education platform that supports students and faculty with trusted nursing content and comprehensive learning tools. Contains over 90 acclaimed Nursing textbooks, covering 37 relevant Nursing specialties from Anatomy and Physiology to Public Health; 20 core Student Midwifery textbooks, plus 24,000+ high resolution images, unlocked and discoverable for visual learning. To search for and access eBooks, please register (by creating an Elsevier User profile/Personal Account) & logging in with those credentials.
A collection of regularly updated evidence-based healthcare databases bringing together research looking at the effectiveness of different health care treatments and interventions.
An invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice. Contains hundreds of hours of footage from therapy sessions, training videos, and reenactments conducted by renowned counseling professionals.
DynaMed delivers the most current and accurate, evidence-based content for practicing clinicians. Emergent scientific literature and clinical practice guidelines are systematically and objectively surveyed by a multidisciplinary team. Relevant information is captured, appraised, and synthesised rapidly into DynaMed’s clinical content, with 6 rounds of updates a day on the site.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature) Ultimate is the definitive resource for nursing and allied health research. Covers over 50 nursing specialties, as well as allied health subjects such as speech and language pathology, nutrition, physical therapy and more.
Dive into interactive research with 3D models that help make human anatomy concepts easier to understand.
Human Kinetics Journals publishes peer-reviewed research of the highest quality in the fields of physical activity and education, sport, kinesiology, and public health.
JBI spans a range of medical, nursing, and healthcare specialties and includes evidence-based recommended practices, evidence summaries, best practice guidelines, systematic reviews, and systematic review protocols.
A collection of around 400 journal titles from the healthcare, nursing, midwifery, pharmacology, medicine, and science disciplines. Includes APA PsycArticles titles.
Lippincott Advisor provides evidence-based information for healthcare professionals, nurses, and clinicians to support clinical decision-making.
Lippincott Procedures provides detailed descriptions of over 1,700 procedures and skills in nursing, complete instructions to perform procedures, video clips and images to clarify complex procedures, and quick lists provide a quick, less-detailed version of procedures.
More than 90 peer-reviewed journals in the areas of biomedical research, biotechnology and regenerative medicine, medicine and surgery, public health research and policy, technology and engineering, environmental research and policy, and law.
Access to over 240 videos of the most common mental health disorders nurses may encounter – whether in a primary care setting, emergency room, medical, psychiatric or other.
An up-to-date collection of nursing training videos, designed to help students improve their clinical skills. Provides access to Medcom's complete collection of 350+ full-length training videos to ensure the best possible patient care.
Nursing Reference Center Plus is an evidence-based information resource designed by nurses for nurses to support practice, education and research needs. The database focuses on ensuring that staff nurses, nurse educators, recent nursing graduates, and nursing students have quick and easy access to the most current information to provide the best care possible to patients.
Ovid MEDLINE® is the leading bibliographic source for biomedical scholarly literature and research, providing access to a vast array of medical literature, including articles on clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, and public health. Indexes approximately 5,600 journals.
A subset of PubMed, PubMed Central is a repository of the full text of biomedical and life sciences journal literature deposited by participating publishers, as well as for author manuscripts that have been submitted in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy and similar policies of other research funding agencies.
The PubMed platform contains MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and additional PubMed records, and indexes journal articles and more back to 1947. It covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, preclinical sciences, and related areas. It is developed and maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), both at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US. As of December 2020, PubMed contains over 30 million records. Links to full text content of items indexed in PubMed are usually available via Library Search, publisher websites or library interlibrary loan.
- Victoria University provides video guide on searching for research literature in PubMed. The guide includes using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and covers why truncation and phrase searching might not get the best results.
- Prairie View A&M University has created a guide titled MEDLINE, PubMed & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Under the title 4 Steps to Using the MeSH Database, note that you can restrict to MeSH Major Topic so that your search will retrieve only citations where your subject is one of the main topics discussed in the article. This means you don't get results where the concept is mentioned, but not the main focus. It also talks about when NOT to use MeSH.
- PubMed Search Tips – How to Use MeSH: Medical Subject Headings
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research. For personalised features, please register (by creating an Elsevier User profile/Personal Account) & log in with those credentials.
Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. Limited to four concurrent users.
Covers a wide range of topics, ranging from physical and health education to fitness and recreation and the business of sports, as well as kinesiology, physical therapy, motor learning, and sport sociology and psychology.
Introduction to each human body system. Anatomy and physiology presented in 3D model sets, 3D animations and illustrations for 12 units: Cells and tissues, Integumentary, Skeleton and joints, Muscle types, Nervous, Endocrine, Circulatory, Lymphatic, Respiratory, Digestive, Urinary, and Reproductive.