LibGuides: Occupational Therapy Assistant Program Guide: Find Articles Using Databases

Best Bet Databases - Occupational Therapy

You can find a wide variety of information and resources using library databases. These resources allow you to search for a topic, browse a specific publication, or find articles relevant for your research. Most databases (including the ones below) provide tools such as basic and advanced search boxes, source citations, subject suggestions, and search filters.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Use this database as the first step in your research process. It contains short articles from encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks and other reference sources on a wide range of subjects. Get started on your assignment or research project by learning about key people, places, dates, events, concepts, and ideas related to your topic.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
A giant database that covers a wide range of topics. Use it to find peer-reviewed scholarly articles, as well as articles from trade journals, newspapers, and magazines.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Provides information for students in health sciences programs, as well as consumers and health care professionals. This database is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on a complete range of healthcare topics related to patient and consumer health information including fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc. Access millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters, reference sources as well as hundreds of health-related multimedia demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries. Includes Gale’s visual Topic Finder tool.
Health and Wellness (Gale) This link opens in a new window
A great resource for students and professionals, alike. Provides full-text articles from medical journals, magazines, reference works, and multimedia in a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorders to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more. Browse a list of topics from the home page.
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Covers medical disciplines and information regarding prescription drugs, herbal remedies, and nutritional supplements.
Contains 650 full text journals and abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
Nursing and Allied Health Premium (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Use this database to find evidence-based nursing content in scholarly journals, videos, dissertations, reference books and more. Topic areas include nursing, nutrition, cytology, oncology, pediatrics, pharmacology, radiology, gerontology, anatomy and physiology, physical and occupational therapy, rehabilitation, dietetics, dental hygiene, public health and more. Journals and publications include Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Journal of Gerontological Nursing, Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services, Oncology Nursing Forum, Journal of Allied Health, and many, many more.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This database contains articles from current biomedical journals and also links to free full-text articles in PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine for the United States. Students and healthcare professionals can find articles across a range of medical fields including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
This database covers the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine, and includes proven treatment techniques and experimental research from trade magazines, news sources, scholarly journals, and multimedia. Includes Gale’s visual Topic Finder tool.
Psychology (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
This database covers a wide range of fields in the study of psychology, including abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social, and all areas of applied psychology. It also includes some coverage of occupational therapy. A great database for students, faculty, researchers, psychologists, and counselors, and any job or career that involves working with people. Includes Gale’s visual Topic Finder tool.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Search for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed is a free resource developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Library Databases A-Z (find articles)

Openly Available Databases

National Rehabilitation Information Center
National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) is the library of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). They collect, catalog, and disseminate the articles, reports, curricula, guides, and other publications on a wide range of issues including technology, health and function, independent living, and capacity building.
OT Seeker
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions
PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Free database of over 53,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions.
Physiopedia
The Physiopedia charity provides an evidence-based and continually updating knowledge resource that is free for anyone to access - some people call it "Wikipedia for the physiotherapy profession". (from the About page)