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PICO
Document Word to organize in PICO format the concepts and terms of your search stategies in databases.
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Word document to organize the concepts and terms of your search stategies in databases.
Boolean Logic and Special Characters
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Update your Search Result with date limits
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Citations ? References ? Bibliographies ?

Citation Style

Citing could be tricky ! Please take a look on these resources to understand/learn how to cite:

Research for Essay Writing in English: Citing your sources (APA, MLA, Chicago)
Research for Technical Report Writing: Citing your sources (APA, MLA)
For French adaptation of citations style, consult "Recherche pour rédaction des travaux universitaires en français" : Citer vos sources (APA, MLA, Chicago et Francisation...)

Citation Managers: your student life savers !!

See the libguide Citation Management for overview of the products. These documents give you step-by-step instructions to the main functions of various citation managers, such as: Creating an account; Creating folders; Exporting references; Removing duplicates; Creating a bibliography and more...

How to use Zotero

Key databases

Rehabilitation Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
Rehabilitation Therapy in Video is the largest and richest streaming video resource ever assembled for the study of occupational therapy, physical/physiotherapy, and speech-language pathology. The collection allows students and faculty to easily find, cite, and share footage of top clinicians and academics explaining the underlying anatomical and neurological issues in specific patient populations, while demonstrating effective techniques and methods for their treatment. All of the video has been thoroughly indexed to allow users to search and filter content by patient details, therapist specialization, treatment method, presenting problem, and more.
PEDro Physiotherapy Evidence Database This link opens in a new window
The Physiotherapy Evidence Database, produced by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at The George Institute for Global Health.
SPORTDiscus » This link opens in a new window
International coverage. Indexes periodicals, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, dissertations and theses, and audiovisual material. Includes the North American dissertations and theses collection of the International Institute for Sport and Human Performance, University of Oregon, from 1949 to the present. Morisset Library has the complete collection on microfiche. SPORTDiscus is produced by the Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) located in Ottawa.
Morisset Library has the complete collection on microfiche. SPORTDiscus is produced by the Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) located in Ottawa.
Ergonomics Abstracts » This link opens in a new window
Ergonomics Abstracts is a focused, comprehensive, and international abstracting service, spanning the world of ergonomics and human factors. The users that will benefit from Ergonomics Abstracts include ergonomists, health and safety specialists, human computer interaction specialists, designers, systems analysts, industrial engineers, occupational psychologists and occupational and physical therapists.
CINAHL (EBSCO) » This link opens in a new window
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981.
TRIP: Turning Research into Practice » This link opens in a new window
Identifies and links to evidence based material from a variety of English-language sources such as peer-reviewed journals, etexts, images, and patient information.
Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new window
Provides full text journals, evidence based resources, and dissertations to support the study of the many aspects of nursing or the allied health professions, including physical therapy, rehabilitation radiography, dietetics, dental hygiene, and the clinical laboratory sciences.
AMED: Allied and Complementary Medicine Database This link opens in a new window
The Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED) is a unique bibliographic database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library. It covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine.

OTSeeker- Free Registration Required
OT seeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy.

Medline (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
Ovid MEDLINE ® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 3,900 journals published world-wide.
PubMed (Medline) This link opens in a new window
La «National Library of Medicine» vous donne accès à MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, des bases de données connexes et des liens à certains périodiques électroniques.
Un login est désormais obligatoire

Rehabdata
The database describes over 80,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities.

Sports Medicine & Education Index (ProQuest) » This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database of peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine » This link opens in a new window
Includes thousands of articles updated daily from nearly 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine.
TRIP: Turning Research into Practice » This link opens in a new window
Identifies and links to evidence based material from a variety of English-language sources such as peer-reviewed journals, etexts, images, and patient information.

Related Databases

SAGE Research Methods Online
SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a web-based research methods tool offering access to over 100,000 pages of content (journals, books and reference books) to help researchers, faculty and students explore concepts, understand methodologies, design research projects and write up their research, across all disciplines, especially the social sciences and in the health sciences.

Education Source » This link opens in a new window
Education Source is intended for students in education as well as educational professionals and policymakers. The collection includes journals, books, and conference papers. Education Source also contains citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews. Coverage spans all educational levels (early childhood to post-secondary) and includes information on sub-specialities such as health education, ESL and assessment and evaluation.
AARP Ageline This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, reports, and government publications. Bibliographic references and abstracts.

Cochrane Library (Wiley)
The Cochrane Library includes several evidence based databases, including: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Other Reviews, (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.

EMBASE » This link opens in a new window
The Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE) is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals.
APA PsycInfo (OVID) This link opens in a new window
Includes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and government reports in psychology and related disciplines.
Réseau Santécom This link opens in a new window
The Santécom Network is an extensive repository of the Quebec public health network printed as well as electronic publications.The printed materials also include the holdings of six documentation centers of the Quebec public health network. The indexed electronic publications are available in full text. Most documents are in French, but there are some in English as well. The search interface is in French only, but limit to English documents is possible.
SCOPUS » This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a multidisciplinary database including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. The research areas covered are science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.
Web of Science » This link opens in a new window
This database includes conference papers and articles from key research journals in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Humanities. It also offers additional features that allow to discover the impact a paper or other published item has had on current research.