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Annual Reviews
Provides annual reviews of the primary literature to over 29 fields in three subject areas (biology and medical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences). Full-text from 1996 to the present and contains a searchable database for bibliographic records from 1984-1995. This database is updated annually.

ArticleFirst
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately 12,500 journals including science, technology, medicine, and social science journals. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item. Covers the time period of 1990 to the present and is updated daily.

CINAHL with Full Text
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature contains citations to articles published in more than 1,200 journals. There are some full-text articles. CINAHL indexes selected books, book chapters, pamphlets, pamphlet chapters, dissertations and master’s theses, audiovisuals, and software.

ECO Electronic Collections OnLine
Contains full-text articles for over 2000 journals. The database is multi-disciplinary and covers agriculture, business, economics, education, geography, history, law, medicine, political science, and religion. The span of coverage is 1995 to the present, and the database is updated daily.

Lexis-Nexis
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is an valuable source for both legal information (including health care law) and news information (including medical news).

JAMA
Access the full-text of archival copies of articles from this journal from 1998 to the present.

MEDLINE/PubMed
PubMed, the search engine developed by the National Library of Medicine, provides free public access to MEDLINE, a database of more than 10 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Coverage extends back to 1966 and new material is incorporated weekly.

MEDSCAPE
Access to Medscape is free, but it requires a one-time membership registration. Medscape is organized by medical specialty, with each supported specialty having its own custom web site. The content comes from an assortment of sources including: clinical e-journals, more than 50 medical journals and textbooks, professional medical news from Reuters, MedscapeWire, and medical news journal publishers, business and finance publishers, managed care and medical practice publishers, and more. This Internet site is updated daily, and it contains links to MEDLINE as well as other web-based medical sites.
ProQuest Health and Medical Complete
Combines clinical research titles with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles. Provides in-depth coverage from over 1,440 publications with nearly 1,200 available in full text and of these, over 970 include MEDLINE® indexing.

Physiotherapy Evidence Database
A publicly available database maintained by the Center for Evidence-Based Phsyiotherapy in Australia, PEDro provides bibliographic citations and abstracts of randomized controlled trails and systematic reviews in physical therapy or physiotherappy as it's called in Australia.

Science Direct
Currently offers full-text electronic access to over 290 journals. Coverage is generally for the last 2-3 years of a journal, depending on publisher. To limit your search to full-text journals, click on the 'Search' button, select the 'Journals' tab, and at the 'Source' drop-down menu choose 'Subscribed journals.' You may either print or download articles to disk in PDF format.

SpringerLInk
SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals and books published by Springer. SpringerLink currently offers over 1,800 fully peer-reviewed journals and more than 25,000 books online. A PDF icon will lead to the full text articles.

WilsonWeb
Wilson Web hosts some databases relevant to PT, including Applied Science Full Text (for biomedical technology) and General Science Full Text (for medical information).


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