Determining where physical therapists get information to support clinical practice decisions.

Objective: To determine the information sources utilised by physical therapists (PTs) to support clinical decisions.

Methods: Physical therapists in the United States were invited via professional listservs and electronic newsletters to participate in an online survey.

Results: Journal articles were the most frequently utilised source of information, followed by databases (PubMed was most frequent).

Mapping the core journals of the physical therapy literature.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify (1) core journals in the literature of physical therapy, (2) currency of references cited in that literature, and (3) online databases providing the highest coverage rate of core journals.

Method: Data for each cited reference in each article of four source journals for three years were recorded, including type of literature, year of publication, and journal title. The journal titles were ranked in descending order according to the frequency of citations and divided into three zones using Bradford's Law of Scattering.

Scopus database: a review.

The Scopus database provides access to STM journal articles and the references included in those articles, allowing the searcher to search both forward and backward in time. The database can be used for collection development as well as for research. This review provides information on the key points of the database and compares it to Web of Science.

Delivering distance training to rural health care professionals.

This article reports on a project that delivers distance training to rural health care professionals. Traveling to provide training on information-seeking skills to rural health professionals is time consuming and costly. In addition to face-to-face training, the University of South Alabama Biomedical Library's SAMNet project seeks to deliver multimedia training to rural health care professionals.