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Library Tutorials

The following links will assist you in understanding how to access materials through the Health Sciences Library website.

Health Sciences Library Website Orientation for the College of Health Professions
This orientation tutorial for the Health Sciences Library will highlight the main features of the library's website, as well as important services available to you as an affiliate of VCU.
Creating an ILLiad Account
Before you can start requesting items from VCU Libraries, you will need to set up an account. This research guide will show you how to create an account and request items through interlibrary loan.

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text for over 600 journals, plus evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more than 200 books.
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(1937 - present) VCU access only
PEDro
Physiotherapy Evidence Database
PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)
APA database of abstracts for psychological literature. Includes journals, dissertations, reports, book chapters, and other scholarly documents. Limited coverage from 1887 - 1926.
PubMed
Premier biomedical database for health and life sciences.
REHABDATA
Database of abstracts on disability and rehabilitation research.
SAGE Research Methods
Research methods tool providing access to SAGE books, journal articles, reference works, case studies, datasets, and videos about research methods, designing research projects, conducting research, writing up findings, and more.
SPORT Discus with Full Text
Abstracts of articles from the international literature on sport and recreation research. Includes contents of 3 foreign-language databases: Atlantes, Heracles, and Catalogue du Musee Olympique.
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(1830 - present) VCU access only

Database Searching Tips and Tutorials

When it comes to searching there are some basic principles one should adopt in order to develop a systematic approach that will enable one to be successful regardless if you are doing a simple or more complex search. After watching the following videos you will should understand what the basic rules for searching and how to incorporate them into your own search.

Video: Making Your Topic "Searchable" (3:23)
Video: Performing the Search and Refining the Results (5:24)
Downloading and Saving Your Citations (4:25)

RHAB 625 Presentation
Attached here is the PowerPoint presentation for the library guest presentation during the RHAB 625 course.

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