UCF Research Guides: Athletic Training Databases: Athletic Training

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PubMed (MEDLINE) (1948+) This link opens in a new window
PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Publishers of journals can submit their citations to NCBI and then provide access to the full-text of articles at journal web sites using LinkOut."
CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (1937+) This link opens in a new window
Cochrane Library (Wiley) This link opens in a new window
UCF subscribes to Cochrane Library on the Wiley platform as of March 2021.
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+) This link opens in a new window
Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine.
SPORTDiscus (EBSCOhost) (1975+) This link opens in a new window

Athletic Training Databases

Relevant Databases

Access Medicine This link opens in a new window
APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+) This link opens in a new window
"contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage
BioMed Central (OpenAccess Central) This link opens in a new window
Clinical Key (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966+) This link opens in a new window
ERIC is available from several database vendors, including ProQuest. UCF students are advised to use ERIC in EBSCOhost, which provides many links to full text and allows users to search multiple education databases simultaneously. Users who are not UCF students are advised to use ERIC from DOE because no login is required.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Use Google Scholar as a first step of discovery, but then focus your research by using specific databases relevant to your subject discipline.
LWW Health Library: Medical Education (Wolters Kluwer) This link opens in a new window
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is an imprint of the publisher Wolters Kluwer.
Subject areas include:
Anatomy
Behavioral Science
Biochemistry
Embryology
Epidemiology
Genetics
Histology
Intro to Clinical Medicine
Microbiology/Immunology
Neuroscience
Pathology/Pathophysiology
Pharmacology
Physical Examination
Physiology
Review
Science Direct (1997+) This link opens in a new window
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Springer eBooks (2005+) This link opens in a new window
Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new window
Disciplines include:
- Architecture & Design
- Astronomy
- Biomedical Sciences
- Business & Management
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Earth Sciences & Geography
- Economics
- Education & Language
- Energy
- Engineering
- Environmental Sciences
- Food Science & Nutrition
- Law
- Life Sciences
- Materials
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Sciences
- Statistics
Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) This link opens in a new window
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Citation Indexes for finding articles that cite a given author or citation.
- Science Citation Index Expanded (1965+)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (1965+)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975+)

Citation Connection is now available. This includes:
- Data Citation Index (1900+)
- Derwent Innovations Index – Patents Database (1963+)
- Book Citation Index: Scholarly Books (2005+)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990+)
- Index Chemicus (IC) (1989+)
- Current Chemical Reactions (1993+)
- Current Contents Connect (1998+)

Evidence-Based Summaries

Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new window
Head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course for Students and faculty in medical, nursing, and related programs.
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley) This link opens in a new window
"a bibliography of controlled trials...as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews"
"includes reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases."
DynaMed Plus (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A point-of-care reference resource providing clinicians with evidence to support clinical decision-making. DynaMed Plus includes mobile and app access: sign up for a free account on the DynaMed Plus index page. You must be on campus or signed in with your NID to create an account.
DynaMedex (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
combines the clinical expertise and extensive, curated disease content of DynaMed with the comprehensive view into treatment options, depth, and breadth of drug information, and advanced search capabilities of Micromedex. Provide users with evidence-based insights for optimal clinical decision-making and improved patient outcomes.
DynaMedex includes mobile and app access: sign up for a free account on the DynaMedex page. You must be on campus or signed in with your NID to create an account.
PEDro -- Physiotherapy Evidence Database This link opens in a new window
"PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, a free database of over 40,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy."

Dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (1637+) This link opens in a new window
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"ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content."
DART-Europe E-theses Portal This link opens in a new window
Dissertations (Center for Research Libraries) This link opens in a new window
EThOS -- e-Theses Online Service (British Library) This link opens in a new window
"There are approximately 380,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 260,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility."
Global ETD Search This link opens in a new window
Open Access Theses & Dissertations (OATD) This link opens in a new window
Theses Canada This link opens in a new window
Trove (National Library of Australia) This link opens in a new window
WorldCat Dissertations & Theses (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses. Also available via WorldCat.org by performing an advanced search and selecting Thesis/dissertation in the content box.