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CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides coverage in nursing, nutrition, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Full-text material includes more than 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

PEDro -The Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Created by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at the University of Sydney; Contents include systematic reviews, controlled trials, and evidence based clinical practice guidelines. Updated monthly.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a database created by the National Library of Medicine to facilitate searching the biomedical literature. The MEDLINE databases found within PubMed contains journals that have been reviewed by a panel of experts for quality. PubMed also contains PMC, which contains publicly accessible literature that have not necessarily gone through the same review process.
Science Citation Index Expanded This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database covering the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. This interface provides access to the ISI Citation databases: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Science Citation Index.

OTseeker
Contains abstracts of of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. It is designed to help occupational therapists use research evidence about occupational therapy interventions to inform their practice by quickly locating it.

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Avoiding plagiarism
Guide; Purdue University
Fake News: Source Evaluation
Use the resources on this page to evaluate the information you come into contact with every day.
SIFT: An approach for evaluating web content
Video from Wayne State University Libraries
PubMed
Learn to use PubMed from this brief video tutorial
CINAHL
Learn to use CINAHL from this series of brief video tutorials
Evidence-based practice database videos
Presentation and videos demonstrating EBP searching in Cochrane, CINAHL, Dynamed and PsycINFO. This series also includes a presentation on PICO. A presentation demonstrating PubMed Clinical Queries is listed separately
PubMed Clinical Queries
A PubMed search tool designed to retrieve targeted results to clinical questions.