Research guide to health science resources

Be efficient in your research and use the various databases, reference works and additional literature in the field of health and medicine.

Databases

Reference works

Bachelor's theses

Databases

We recommend that you search the databases in order to research and review up-to-date and discipline-specific content on a topic. They mostly contain references to resources as well as full text articles from journals. Depending on the database, additional types of publications such as conference reports, book chapters, pictures, videos and much more are included.

Overview

The table below provides an overview of the databases in the area of health and medicine. Please note that databases marked with an asterisk (*) require special access information. You will find more information in the details of each database.

Name	Subject	Content
AMED - Allied and Complementary Medicine Database*	nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy	references
CareLit	nursing, health professions	references, some full texts
CINAHL Ultimate	midwifery, nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, public health	references, some full texts
Cochrane Library	clinical medicine	references, some full texts, systematic reviews
Emcare	midwifery, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, public health	references
LIVIVO	clinical medicine, midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, public health	references
MEDLINE	clinical medicine, midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, public health	references, some full texts
OTDBASE	occupational therapy	references
OTseeker	occupational therapy	references, systematic reviews
PEDro	physiotherapy	references
Physio Tools*	physiotherapy	references
Physitrack*	physiotherapy	videos, full texts
Primal Pictures*	physiotherapy	references
PubMed	clinical medicine, midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, public health	references, some full texts
Scopus	multidsciplinary	references

* Requires access information. You will find more information in the details of each database.

Open access portals

Search for scientific publications that are worldwide freely available, also known as open access publications.

Reference works

Reference works are the ideal starting point for your research. In addition to defining concepts, they help you to gain an overview of a topic, narrow down a topic and find key concepts for future work.

All electronic reference works can be found and searched in ZHAW swisscovery. The selection of titles below provides you with a quick introduction to your specialist area. General reference works can also be found with the monolingual (in German) and multilingual dictionaries (in German).

Title	Additional information
A Dictionary of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy	There are further reference works from Oxford on the topic of medicine and health.
A Dictionary of Nursing	There are further reference works from Oxford on the topic of medicine and health.
A Dictionary of Public Health	There are further reference works from Oxford on the topic of medicine and health.
Encyclopedia of Gerontology	-
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)	Different versions available: ICD-11, ICD-10-GM (German Modification), ICD-10-WHO
Praktische Schmerzmedizin	There are further reference works from Springer on the topic of medicine and public health.
Pschyrembel Online	Evidence-based medical information (Pschyrembel).
Waldeyer - Anatomie des Menschen	Textbook and atlas of anatomy (Waldeyer).