This guide introduces you to library services and resources to support your academic studies and research. This first page is just an introduction and highlights some of the key resources available to you for research and clinical work. Much more can be found on other pages.
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PubMed and Medline
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PubMed (NU customized) This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive database of journal literature in medicine. While this is a free web resource, this version contains links to Northeastern-subscribed journals that require a login.
Want to know more about how to use PubMed? This tutorial "Getting Started with PubMed" should help.
A note on Medline, MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains millions of references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Medline can be accessed through a variety of platforms including PubMed, EBSCOhost, Proquest and others.
Core Resource
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AccessPhysiotherapy Including F.A. Davis Physical Therapy Collection ( (McGraw Hill Medical) This link opens in a new windowIncludes tools such as video demonstrations, image slides, online dissection, and quizzes. includes a cadaver dissection tool, modalities & therapeutic goals, search core topics for interventions, functional limitations, and more.
Includes collection of 29 top F.A. Davis physical therapy e-books, fully searchable and continuously updated.
Bates
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Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new windowpresents a step-by-step approach to patient treatment, current examination techniques, and normal and abnormal findings, including more than 8 hours of head-to-toe...
Clinical and Drug Tools
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ClinicalKeyaccess to over 900 top books, over 500 top journals, thousands of videos and millions of images.
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LexicompLexicomp provides clear, concise, point-of-care drug information, including dosing, administration, warnings and precautions, as well as clinical content, such as clinical practice guidelines, IV compatibility from Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database, and other tools.
Mental Health Diagnostics
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Additional Guides of Interest
There are other guides that you might find useful, depending on specific areas of interest. A few are listed here but even more exist.