Databases are huge, searchable directories of journals and other scholarly publication types.
You will find peer reviewed journal articles by searching the Library's various databases - some key databases for this discipline are linked below.
Searching FiNDit is another way to research and allows you to discover all of the Library's print and electronic resources from the one place. Find FiNDit on the Library homepage.
As well as searching databases, you can search individual journals. Below are key, general physiotherapy journals.
This database contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index and is the core research tool for nursing and allied health literature.
PEDro is a free database of over 26,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
PubMed is the free internet platform for searching Medline published by the US National Library of Medicine.
The world's most comprehensive full text source for fitness, health and sports studies journals.
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Embase is a subscription database from Elsevier that provides biomedicine literature. Embase contains journal articles, conference papers and abstracts and reports in biomedicine.
Follow these links for videos, tutorials and downloads to help you with your database searching
Australia-focused multidisciplinary nursing and allied health collection covering addictions, mental health, indigenous peoples' health, disease prevention, public health & more.
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database.
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, with journals, books and conference proceedings in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
