Resources for the College of Allied Health

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. How can I find evidence-based articles?
  2. What resources do you have to support my discipline?
  3. How do I get a resource that the Biomedical Library doesn't own?
1) How can I find evidence-based articles?

Finding evidence-based articles in the various databases provided by the Biomedical Library depends on the databases itself.

  • For Medline via PubMed, choose “Clinical Queries” from the left side-bar. This will allow you to search by one of the types of questions (etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis) and will also give you the opportunity to limit your search to systematic reviews. With the Limits tab, you can limit to Type of Article, i.e., Meta Analysis and Randomized Control Trial
  • For CINAHL, the “Search Options” box allows you to limit according to the type of question (etiology, therapy, prognosis) under Clinical Queries. You can also limit to Systematic Reviews under Publication Type.
  • The Cochrane Library is a database of Systematic Reviews
  • There are other resources available for evidence based practice at in the Library website's EBP section. This includes databases such as Pedro and DARE.
2) What resources do you have to support my discipline?
  • Access Emergency Medicine
  • Access Medicine
  • ACP Pier
  • CINAHL
  • Clinical Pharmacology
  • Cochrane Databases
  • ComDisDome
  • Dynamed
  • EBSCO Databases
  • Evidence Based Medicine
  • Exam Master Online
  • HAPI@OVID
  • Health Statistics
  • Integrated Medical Curriculum
  • ISI Web of Science
  • Journal Citation Reports
  • MDConsult
  • Medical Matters Wiki
  • MedlinePlus
  • Micromedix
  • OT Seeker
  • OVID Databases
  • Primal Pictures
  • Psyc Info
  • PubMed
  • PubMed Central
  • R2 Library
  • Science Direct
  • Scopus
  • SOUTHcat
  • StatRef!

Explanations of these resources can be found on our Databases List page and our EBP pages.

3) How do I get a resource that the Biomedical Library doesn't own?

The Biomedical Library is connected electronically with other libraries and able to borrow resources that we may not have in our collection. To request a copy of those articles, choose "Order An Article" from the Biomedical Library’s web page, or go directly to our Interlibrary Loan page. Click on “Log into your Illiad account”. (ILLiad is the electronic system used to manage all Biomedical Library Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery requests.) If you have not yet set up an account, then click on “First Time User.” If you have an account, fill in your Username and Password. At the next screen, fill in the appropriate information for the article or book needed.

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Featured Resources

CINAHL - Cummulated Index of Nursing and Allied Health database

OT Seeker - Abstracts of OT systematic reviews and randomized control trials

PubMed - NLM's Medline interface

Full Database List