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Massage Therapy : GALILEO

This guide is for students who attend the Therapeutic Massage Therapy program at Columbus Technical College. It will give a brief introduction to the library's resources on the topic.

GALILEO Databases to search for Massage Therapy articles 

  • Alt HealthWatch focuses on multiple perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Full-text content comes from more than 180 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research, and book excerpts.
  • Science Reference Source provides full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, reference books and high-quality videos. The database also contains science experiments, curriculum-aligned lesson plans, and a vast image collection.
  • CINAHL Complete is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature and supports nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators, and researchers. It provides full-text coverage of journals and publications from well-known associations including the American Occupation Therapy Association and the American Diabetes Association. CINAHL Complete also provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheet and quick lesson disease overviews, and continuing education modules, and it covers disciplines that include biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and more.

More on selecting articles

Throughout your academic career, your instructors may request that you research and write an essay about any given topic. GALILEO Databases are the perfect place to start your research, where you will find reputable and trustworthy sources like peer-reviewed journals and eBooks. Here is the first and last pages of a paper downloaded from GALILEO. We use this as a sample of what to look for in an article to know if it's a valuable source: