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Core Resources


CINAHL      BU-px
"CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981."

Medline (PubMed)   1966+ (now includes "Find @ BU" links)   BU-px
MEDLINE is the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 12 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.

PsycINFO      BU-px
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Web of Science   1973+   BU-px
A group of citation databases, of which Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index are most relevant for topics in the allied health fields. Also includes indexing to conference proceedings.

Secondary Resources


Linguistics Abstracts Online      ChRiv-px
Searches more than 15,000 abstracts from nearly 300 linguistics journals published since 1985. In addition to journal articles, this database also covers working papers and theses. Entries appear in the database within six months of publication. Useful for Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences topics.

LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)      BU-px
Excellent coverage of journal articles, books, and dissertations in the Speech Language and Hearing Sciences. Coverage is 1973- current.

Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series A. Human and Experimental   1990+   BU-px
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Physical Education Index      BU-px
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ScienceDirect      BU-px
SCIENCE DIRECT is a Web-based information source for scientific, technical, and medical research offering access to more than 1100 full text electronic journals from 1995/96+ across 16 fields of science, including the social sciences.

Social Services Abstracts   1979+   BU-px
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Sport Discus   1975+   BU-px
Contains citations to articles, theses and dissertations in the areas of sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, coaching, physical education, sport law and fitness. Coverage is primarily from 1975 to the present, although citations have been selected from as far back as 1830. Many citations include descriptive abstracts.

Evidence-based practice Resources


Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews      BU-px
An EBM database containing bibliographic references to controlled trials in health care.

OTseeker      WWW
"Contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated to assist you to evaluate their validity and interpretability."

PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database      WWW
"Developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not."

Topic- Specific Resources


ABI/INFORM      BU-px
Includes coverage of healthcare administration.

African HealthLine   (now incorporated into Africa-Wide: NiPAD )   BU-px
"The premier collection of bibliographic databases on African health issues. African HealthLine offers access to a unique collection of sources including many from Africa and covering all aspects of African health issues."

AgeLine      BU-px
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Child Development & Adolescent Studies      BU-px
CHILD DEVELOPMENT & ADOLESCENT STUDIES is a database containing "references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year. " Coverage is from 1927 to the present.

ERIC (Education)   1966+   BU-px
Focuses broadly on the literature of education, but may be of interest to researchers in the allied health fields who are working with children or in school environments.

PILOTS Database      WWW
An index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events, produced by the National Center for PTSD.

Association Webpages in the Allied Health Sciences


American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)      WWW


American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF)      WWW


American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)      WWW


American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)      WWW


National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA)      WWW


E-books


AccessMedicine Collection      BU-px
Provides access to basic and clinical sciences e-textbooks in a variety of subject areas including pharmacology, biochemistry, epidemiology, histology, microbiology, neuroanatomy, pathology, and more.

Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine.      ChRiv-px
"Presents current, unbiased information on alternative and complementary medical practices, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy, detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda, and osteopathy. Information on recommended therapies for specific disorders and diseases, medicinal uses for plants and herbs, are balanced by conclusions of studies on efficacy and analysis of current levels of acceptance by traditional scientists and doctors."

Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer.      ChRiv-px
"Includes entries covering cancers, cancer drugs, treatments, side effects, and diagnostic procedures."

Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders.      ChRiv-px
"Provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand in language accessible to laypersons."

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.      ChRiv-px
"Includes information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics. Written for a general audience with an authoritative tone."

National Academies Press      WWW
"Created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy." Includes more than 3000 books available online for free.

NCBI Bookshelf      WWW
"In collaboration with authors and publishers, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is adapting biomedical books for the web."

STAT!-Ref      BU-px
STAT!-REF provides access to the full text of 30 current leading clinical, biomedical textbooks on the World Wide Web, including the DSM-IV, USP DI, Mosby's GenRx, Review of General Psychiatry, and more. The program allows users to search one textbook individually, or to select up to 30 titles to be searched simultaneously. All search results, full text and tables-of-contents can be browsed and printed. Additional features include chapter bibliographies, links to relevant journal article citations from the MEDLINE database, and selected tables, figures, illustrations and video images.