LibGuides: Physical Therapist Assistant: Core Resources

Welcome PTA Students

This guide is designed to help you find authoritative, evidence based resources for your research assignments.

Here you will find links to recommended library databases, eBooks, and high-quality web sources.

CINAHL Complete (EBSCO)
Scholarly Nursing journal articles. Select for evidence based practice and other specific search limiters to improve search results. BSC, NUR, HSA
Cochrane Library (Wiley)
Systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. A core resource for evidence based practice.
Health & Nursing (EBSCO)
Three databases in one. Contains the American Psychological Association's PsycArticles, the professional nursing database CINAHL, and MEDLINE.
Health & Medicine (Gale)
Search full text Nursing and Allied Health journals. Research case studies, viewpoints, product/service evaluations and scholarly articles.
Rittenhouse Nursing eBook Library
Nursing ebooks including "Ethics and Issues in Contemporary Nursing." eBook collection with a strength in nursing, hospital and health administration.
PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
PubMed is a service provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. PubMed specializes in reviews of clinical effectiveness research. NB: Choose "Log In" to create an account under MY NCBI, then Manage Filters, LinkOut and click on Libraries, find SCF and click on both boxes.

Learn how to set up your personalized PubMed account.

Click on the icon below to connect to our PubMed tutorials.

Research Article - slides
Brief guide to the understanding the way that research articles are organized. Open the file for a quick review.