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1 Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy C a n a d a ONLINE

2 Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online... Have questions about how to access Physiotherapy Canada Online? What are the advantages of reading Physiotherapy Canada online? Need help navigating through Physiotherapy Canada Online? Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online... a new CPA member resource guide to help you navigate this incredibly robust research tool. Please contact us if you still have questions or would like to suggest additional items to the resource guide. Introduction What Does Physiotherapy Canada Online Offer That The Print Version Doesn t? How do I access my CPA subscription to Physiotherapy Canada Online? Where is the link to the content? How do I read an article? Read an abstract Read a full article What Is Advance Online? Read and Research with Physiotherapy Canada Online Everything you need at your fingertips Access in the office, at home and "on the go" Enhanced features not available in the print version Receive alerts as new issues become available online How do I sign up for New Issue Alerting? When will I receive New Issue TOC alerts? How do I unsubscribe from New Issue TOC alerts? How can I sign up for RSS alerts? Save your favourites and create your own library of articles Mark items of interest discovered for reading later Recommend this article/issue Share Print/Save full articles or individual pages How do I export citations? Live links in every article Searching Search refinements How do I link to journals online? How do I link to articles online? How can I share articles with my colleagues? How can I download a list of URLs? 2 Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online...

3 WHAT DOES PHYSIOTHERAPY CANADA ONLINE OFFER THAT THE PRINT VERSION DOESN T? The online version of Physiotherapy Canada is an essential resource for researchers, practitioners physiotherapists and physiotherapist assistants and students by providing open access to 500+ articles, reviews, Clinician's commentaries and Congress abstracts and special series articles such as Pain, Bone Health, Oncology and Behavioural Change. Physiotherapy Canada Online offers many more features than the print edition. From advanced searching, live links and citation exporting, to colour photos and video, the online version of Physiotherapy Canada is a pleasure to browse, read and/or research through. Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online... 3

4 HOW DO I ACCESS MY CPA SUBSCRIPTION TO PHYSIOTHERAPY CANADA ONLINE? CPA members have two ways to access Physiotherapy Canada Online. Follow this link Member login, log in with your CPA member username and password. You will then be brought to Physiotherapy Canada Online. You will see all issues of Physiotherapy Canada that are currently available online. Customization Physiotherapy Canada Online is an incredible research tool. To use its many customizeable features, go to the Physiotherapy Canada Online site to set up your account. 1. Go to and click the register button that you will find on the left hand side of the screen. 2. Click the button register and then click Register Individual. 3. Enter the information in the boxes shown on the page. Note: We cannot process your registration without this information. 4. Please choose a username and password that match the following criteria. Your username must be at least 4 characters in length and may have either alpha or numeric characters. Your password must be at least 6 characters in length. Your password cannot be the same as your username and must contain at least 1 alphabetic character and 1 numeric character. 5. Click OK. You will be given an ID# xxx-xx-xx. 6. Send an to ptc@utpress.utoronto.ca. Please include your new ID#. We will assign access to Physiotherapy Canada Online and notify you once your access is set up. Once you have been notified that your access is setup you can access Physiotherapy Canada Online and use all of its research tool and customizable functions which we will explore next. 4 Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online...

5 WHERE IS THE LINK TO THE PTC CONTENT? HOW DO I READ AN ARTICLE? Once you are logged in and on the Physiotherapy Canada Online site, you will see a list of all issues that are currently available. Each issue is organized into folders named for their volume, and issue number. Starting at the top, you will see a folder called Advance Online which contains articles that are published online ahead of print issue publication. To access individual articles, click on one of the folders. This will expand to the full list of articles in that issue. Read an abstract Click the article name to view the abstract. Read a full article Full text is available in PDF. On the results pages and also on the article abstract page, you will find the PDF icon. Click the icon beneath the journal cover to open full text. The article PDF will open, using Adobe Reader, and you can read, save, print the full article. WHAT IS ADVANCE ONLINE? Physiotherapy Canada Advance Online... Early access to the latest research Articles published online ahead of print issue publication have become a staple in many fields where new research is being published at a fast rate. To meet the challenges of the current academic publishing world, articles accepted for publication can now be copyedited, typeset, and posted online immediately through UTP Journals Advance Online. With this new initiative, advance versions of articles will be available online within weeks rather than months of final manuscript submission. We are excited to offer this service to our contributors and readers of Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapy Canada Advance Online articles are available from the main Physiotherapy Canada Online home page, in the folder called Advance Online. Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online... 5

6 READ AND RESEARCH WITH PHYSIOTHERAPY CANADA ONLINE Whether you re browsing articles or doing focused research, Physiotherapy Canada Online offers the best in online tools. To access these tools, you must first login using your ID# as described in the section above HOW DO I ACCESS MY CPA SUBSCRIPTION TO PHYSIOTHERAPY Canada ONLINE? Everything you need at your fingertips Physiotherapy Canada Online allows you to search through current and archived issues when you need them and in a timely way. The easy to use search function allows you to organize results by article summaries, abstracts or citations and bookmark, export, or print a specific page, chapter or article. Access in the office, at home and "on the go" Experience everything Physiotherapy Canada Online has to offer from your desktop and mobile devices. Enhanced features not available in the print version Physiotherapy Canada Online offers supplementary information, colour photos, videos, audio files, etc.(when provided by the authors) encouraging further exploration and research. Receive alerts as new issues become available online Early access to the latest issues - Did you know that most online issues are available to subscribers up to two weeks in advance of the print version? Sign up for alerts and you will know as soon as the latest issue is ready for you to read. How do I sign up for New Issue Alerting? To sign up, click the New Issue Alerting in the right corner. When will I receive New Issue TOC alerts? You will begin receiving new issue alerts when the next new issue goes online. The alert will contain the table of contents for that new issue with direct links to the content. But remember you need to be logged into either your CPA Membership account and/or your Physiotherapy Canada Online account using the ID # you received. How do I unsubscribe from New Issue TOC alerts? Manage your alerts by clicking on the link called Alerts in the persoinalization menu on the left side of the screen. On the Alerting page, you will see a red X associated to an alert title. Clicking the red X will remove the alert from your address. Users can also use the unsubscribe feature in the footer of every alert you receive. 6 Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online...

7 How can I sign up for RSS alerts? On the upper right of any browse or search results list, you will find the orange RSS icon. Clicking on this icon will allow you to arrange for RSS alerting. Save your favourites and create your own library of articles Click the add to saved items link to save, label and organize items as you are browsing for easy access at a later time. Mark items of interest discovered for reading later The marked items list allows you to indicate articles of interest discovered during your session. Mark an article by simply clicking the Add to marked items link from anywhere on the site. Recommend this article/issue You can recommend issues and/or articles by clicking the Recommend this issue/article link on the right side of the screen. This function allows you to send the article information to an recipient. Share Share article/issue links via and social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc. by simply hovering over the share icon at the top right of the screen. A box will appear to allow you to share on all of the popular social media sites or by . Print/Save full articles or individual pages Print pages or articles from any screen by clicking on the print icon at the top right of the screen. To save a full article, click the download icon at the top right of the screen and a save as box will appear and you can save the article pdf to your computer. Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online... 7

8 How do I export citations? On the right of every article abstract, you will find the Export Citation option. This is a simple feature that allows you to export the citation in RIS, which is the format most citation managers use, or into Text so that you can keep a copy of the citation for your research. Live links in every article Live links in references saves you time to look at the referenced study, simply hover over the reference and you ll see a yellow highlight click on it and you will be redirected to that study. Not just references, all links included in articles are live. Simply hover over the page and where there is a live link, the text will be highlighted in yellow. Simply click the highlighted text to follow the link and continue your exploration. 8 Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online...

9 Searching Physiotherapy Canada Online offers readers full searching (full text, Boolean, relevancy ranking, and persistent keyword searching), quick searching (single field, single button, automatic recognition of ISSN and DOI) and advanced searching (citation text, publication, subjects, or content types). Search results can be organized, filtered and displayed by summaries, dimensional navigation, abstracts, citation or tabular results, search within results. All search functions are easily accessed via the right side search bar. Simply enter your search text or click on more options for advanced searching. Search refinements Do you see the various categories on the right of results pages when you browse or search for content? These are the search refinements. Narrow your browse or search results by clicking on refinements, such as content type/ category, date range for publication, or author name. By using refinements, you can narrow your results to find exactly the content you need. Using refinements is a great way to find relations among content and stumble upon research that you did not know existed. Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online... 9

10 How do I link to journals online? All UTP Journals offer OpenURL linking and UTP Journals direct linking. Additionally, you can copy and paste the URL from the browser address bar to use as a persistent link to the journal homepage. See the Download this list feature to download a list of URLs for any content. How do I link to articles online? As with all UTP Journals, all articles offer OpenURL linking and UTP Journals direct linking. Additionally, you can copy and paste the URL form the browser address bar to use as a persistent link to the article homepage. See the Download this list feature to download a list of URLs for any content. How can I share articles with my colleagues? From any article abstract page, you can select the Recommend this article link on the upper right to a link of the article to a colleague or even to yourself. By clicking the link, you will find a form to enter the sender s name and address, recipient s name and address as well as a text box to include a personal message. How can I download a list of URLs? You can download a list of URLs and other metadata elements, such as ISSN/ISBN, subjects and more, by clicking the Download this list icon on the upper right of any article or issue page. (The Download this list icon resembles a list with a green arrow.) Once you click the Download this list icon, you ll find yourself on the Export page with metadata field checkboxes where you can select the data that you wish to download in your list. All downloaded lists include the content name, DOI, and direct and OpenURL links for the content in your list. Once you have selected the data fields you want in your downloaded list, click the Excel CSV button to download and open your list of URLs in an Excel spreadsheet. 10 Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online...

11 STILL HAVE QUESTIONS? We are happy to help, simply or call us at. Scientific Editor Dina Brooks, PhD Professor Department of Physical Therapy University of Toronto University Avenue Toronto, ON, M5G 1V7, Canada Editorial Office University of Toronto Press - Journals Division 5201 Dufferin Street North York, ON, M3H 5T8, Canada Tel: Ext 7787 Fax: ptc@utpress.utoronto.ca Canadian Physiotherapy Association 955 Green Valley Crescent, Suite 270 Ottawa, Ontario K2C 3V4 Get Directions Tel:(613) (800) Fax: (613) information@physiotherapy.ca MORE INFORMATION You can find more information on Physiotherapy Canada at including information on how to contribute to the journal, editorial team information, news and special issue information. Everything you ever wanted to know about Physiotherapy Canada Online... 11