Athletic Training Subject Resources

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Databases:
  • ProQuest Central - Health and Medicine: Our largest comprehensive database, with extensive coverage in health and medicine. 
    • Open ProQuest Central and click the "Health and Medicine" icon
    • Click "Browse" to access instructional videos, evidence-based care sheets and more!
    • Narrow down your search with clickable choices for scholarly resources and full-text.
    • Nursing Reference Library is included in this database.
  • CINAHL Plus with Full-Text: Scholarly allied health database in a new interface.
    • Search using keyword smart searching, by publication, or with improved guided subject searching using standardized medical terminology.
    • Combine terms using AND, OR and NOT EX: "diabetes and children" will return results with both terms, "diabetes or blood sugar" will return results with either term, and "diabetes not children" will get rid of anything about children.
    • New "Narrow Results By" tabs to improve searching capabilities and provided targeted results.
  • Consumer Health Complete: a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content.
    • Designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.
    • Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to  complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
  • Credo Reference: A full-text electronic reference database. Choose "Find a Book" and then "Subject- Medicine" for full-text reference works including hundreds of illustrations and images. A great place to start!
  • PubMed: Accessible on the web. An extremely comprehensive citation database; no full-text. Any articles found here can be ordered using the interlibrary loan form.
Books:
  • Use the Quest and Mobius catalogs
    • Quest catalog includes CMU, Mo Valley, UCM and State Fair
    • Items from Quest usually arrive in 2-3 days and check out for 1 month.
    • MOBIUS catalog is state wide; items requested arrive in 5-7 days and check out for 3 weeks.
    • Request items from off-campus using your name and student ID number.
  • Specific medical terms will not return many results, so try to use broader terms.
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Phone: 248-6292 or 248-6271