Subject Guides: Physiotherapy: Quick Links

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A separate web page with lots of examples, instructions, and tips on citing and referencing.

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Key databases for finding journal articles and conference papers

Key databases for your discipline:

(See the page Finding journal articles to learn how to use these databases)

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
ICE Learning Center: Video Library This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of real patients and therapists, created to inspire clinical excellence for faculty, students and clinicians in occupational therapy and physical therapy programs.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database This link opens in a new window
A free database of over 45,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality.
SPORTDiscus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic and full-text database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology. **8 concurrent users
Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video This link opens in a new window
Extensive video collection ever assembled in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more.
Trip Database This link opens in a new window
Online since 1997, Trip (formerly Turning Research Into Practice) is a search engine for quickly finding high-quality health research evidence to support and inform clinical practice.

Click here for more Library databases related to Nursing, health, and allied fields

Librarians and Learning Skills Advisers and ASK students, oh my!

Librarians

Can help with: finding material for your assessment tasks or research; referencing; bibliographic management (e.g. EndNote); researcher IDs; keeping up to date with research alerts

Erin Roga, Berwick

Myles Strous, Gippsland

Karen Pruis, Mt Helen & Wimmera

Contact the Library:

During opening hours:
- Phone: 1300 552 567
- Live chat (see the Need help? tab on the side of this page)
Any time
- Ask the Library online form (email reply by the end of the next business day)

Ask Desk

Senior students who can help with: academic writing, research, and general all-around study skills.

Contact the ASK Desk

Learning skills advisers

Can help with: essay writing, writing for other types of assessment tasks (reports, case studies, annotated bibliographies), thesis writing, referencing, study skills, exam preparation.

Talia Barrett,
Based at Mt Helen

Daniel North,
Based at Berwick

Contact a Learning Skills Adviser

Physiotherapy