Laurea LibGuides: Physiotherapy: Journals & articles

How to find journals and articles

There are several services through which you can search for articles. You can search through the actual article databases or larger search services. This page introduces you to some of the Laurea Library licensed article databases and to some larger article search tools.

If you are looking for a specific journal or magazine, go to Laurea Finna and search by the name of the journal or by the ISSN number.

Academic article databases

PEDro
Free database of over 56,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions.
EBSCOhost combined search
EBSCOhost combined search covers all EBSCO databases Laurea Library subscribes to plus some free databases. List of databases: BSE (business), CINAHL (health care), PsycARTICLES (psychology), SPORTDiscus (physiotheray, sport, tourism etc.), MEDLINE, ERIC, GreenFile, OpenDissertations.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCO)
More than 500 full text journals. Subject areas include physical therapy, sports medicine, occupational health and therapy, rehabilitation etc.
CINAHL with fulltext (EBSCO)
More than 600 full text journals on nursing and othes health disciplines. CINAHL also covers indexing for over 3000 journals.
PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)
Full text, peer reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from about 100 journals, including all journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
ProQuest Central
Laaja monitieteinen yhteistietokanta, joka sisältää yli 11 000 kokotekstilehteä, yritystietoa, videomateriaalia jne. Osa sisällöstä on vertaisarvioitua, mutta mukana on myös paljon muun tyyppistä sisältöä. Keskeisiä aihealueita ovat mm. liiketalous, terveystieteet, yhteiskuntatieteet ja tekniikka.
Wiley Online Library
Multidiscliplinary (nursing, health care, science, social sciences, humanities, business, technology etc.) article database. Laurea's subscription covers more than 1500 journals. Note that Wiley ebook chapters are not included in Laurea's subscription.

PubMed Central (PMC)
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital repository that archives open access full-text scholarly articles that have been published in biomedical and life sciences journals.

PubMed
Lääke- ja terveystieteiden sekä lähialojen tärkein kansainvälinen kirjallisuusviitetietokanta. Tuottaja National Library of Medicine, USA.
SAGE Premier
More than 800 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
ScienceDirect Freedom Collection is a multidiscliplinary database that contains 2000 scholarly journals. Main subject areas are science, technology, health sciences and social sciences.

Evidence based practice

Cochrane Library
Systemoituja katsauksia eli näyttöön perustuvaa tietoa eri hoitomenetelmien vaikuttavuudesta. Tietokantaa ylläpidetään kansainvälisenä Cochrane-yhteistyönä.
Joanna Briggs Institute EBD Database (Ovid)
Näyttöön perustuvan tiedon keskeinen lähde terveysalalla.

International newspapers

PressReader
Yli 7000 sanoma- ja aikakauslehteä yli 120 eri maasta yli 60 kielellä. Lehdet ovat luettavissa ilmestymispäivänä, valtaosa 60-90 päivän ajan ilmestymisestä.

Instructions

Article search ABC
Read more about searching academic articles.

Large article search services

Google Scholar
Google's search engine for finding academic content. It returns in most cases more search results than any other academic search tool. NOTE! Activate Laurea library links in GS settings. Read instructions.
Laurea Finna Article Search
Laurea Finna Article Search finds most articles licensed to Laurea and a lots of other content.

AI-based article search tools

There are several articles search services that utilize AI and large language models. You can read more about them in AI and information search LibGuide. Below some examples of such tools.

Keenious Plus
Keenious is an AI-based article search tool. It searches scientific articles among more than 100 million articles. The search input can be a freely formed text.

Elicit Registration is required. Registration gives access to free Elicit Basic service. Use natural language sentence(s) as the search input. Elicit searches among more than 125 millions articles. More tools and features available than in Keenious.
Research Rabbit Free to use, but requires creating an account. In addition to finding academic articles, Research Rabbit visualizes the networks formed between publications and authors. Search input can be another article or freely formed text.