We have selected some key eresources and individual journal titles to help you locate relevant material for your subject.
Eresources
Use our eresources to search for relevant journal articles or other resources such as anatomy images. Although OneSearch does search many of these, using the subject specific collections will produce more tailored results and provide more relevant filters. Eresources for health is an online tutorial to help you use these resources.
In addition to these key full-text eresources you can also explore our full A-Z of eresources to see the whole list and see the for additional research specific resources.
Academic Search Complete
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Anatomy TV |
An Interactive 3D anatomy resource. Rotate the body, navigate through the layers and click on the image to bring up the relevant text.
This resource uses Adobe Flash. If you are struggling to view it, these instructions should help.
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Instant Anatomy |
Diagrams, videos, podcasts and revision questions to help you get to grips with anatomy. |
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TeachMePhysio |
High quality online training videos for manual therapists. |
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Physiotherapy and health specific |
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CINAHL |
The key collection for Nursing and Allied health. It indexes (citations only) over 4000 journals and holds the full-text of 760 journals, plus linking to our other subscribed content. You will get fewer results but they should be more relevant.
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MEDLINE |
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine journal citation database covering medicine, nursing, the health care system and much more. This version includes citations from 5,200 scholarly journals and full-text from more than 1,450. |
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Proquest Nursing and Allied Health |
One of several collections from Proquest, all of which together form Proquest Central. This particular collection indexes 850 journals and holds the full-text of 715 Nursing and Allied health titles. More information in Getting started with Proquest databases. |
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Cochrane Library |
Provides systematic reviews of clinical based research on the effectiveness of specific interventions. It will depend on your topic as to whether there will be a relevant review but if there is, it will be a key resource. |
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Academic Video Online |
The Rehabilitation channel of this resource has videos covering topics such as physical therapy, stretching exercises, hand therapy, cardiac rehab and isometric strengthening. Well worth checking out for content aimed at both physiotherapists and patients. |
Wider and multi-disciplinary |
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SPORTDiscus |
Mostly full text, this collection covers journal articles, monographs and theses on sport, sport medicine, fitness and related disciplines. |
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ScienceDirect |
Covers physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences and social sciences. As the name suggests it is more science based so it will depend on your topic whether you use this one. |
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Academic Search Complete |
A huge multi-disciplinary database which indexes (citations only) over 9,500 journals and provides full-text to over 6,500. Good for a search on more general topics. |
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Proquest Central |
Pulls together many of the Proquest collections, searching thousands of journals across many subjects. More information in Getting started with Proquest databases. |
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Sage Journals |
Whereas the collections above hold content from a number of publishers this collection holds 900 full-text peer reviewed journals published by Sage. Other publisher collections are available but this one has the most relevant full-text journals. |
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Dissertations and theses |
Global collection with some full-text from 1997 onwards. It is possible to limit by level e.g. MSc. To access UoC undergrad dissertations go to Collections in OneSearch |
Individual Journal Titles
Browse or search inside key journal titles for your subject below. There are too many to mention but two of the key Physiotherapy journals are listed below. Both of these journals are peer reviewed and a good starting point. For a full range of titles check our A-Z of journals via Journals Search.
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Physiotherapy |
Published quarterly, this journal from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy aims to publish original research and facilitate continuing professional development for physiotherapists and other health professions worldwide. |
Physiotherapy Canada |
This journal aims to present leading-edge Physiotherapy scholarship, providing a useful international perspective on contemporary issues in Physiotherapy. It is published four times per year. |