Library guides: Occupational therapy: Articles and journals

Articles and journals

Key databases

Databases index and often provide abstracts and/or the full text of articles from a wide range of journals in a discipline. Search these to find journal articles on your research topic.

CINAHL Complete (via EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive database of journals and other publications for nursing and allied health. CINAHL Complete provides broad content coverage including 40 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.

Includes indexing for over 5,000 journals, with extensive full-text coverage available for over 1,200.

MOBILE ACCESS: EBSCOhost is optimized for mobile use and has an iPhone/iPad and Android app available.

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Scopus
Abstracts and indexes journals, books and conference proceedings for all disciplines. Includes tools to track, analyse and visualise research.

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It provides a Journal Analyzer tool which uses citation information to indicate impact and journal ranking. Subject areas covered are: chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering, life and health sciences, social science, psychology and economics, biological, agricultural and environmental sciences, and general sciences.
MOBILE ACCESS: iPhone and Android apps are available for SciVerse. You need to register on main site to access.
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MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost)
Cites journals and other publications for the biomedical and life sciences. MEDLINE is a subset of PubMed.

MEDLINE is produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It is one of the foremost databases of biomedical literature covering virtually every area in the broad field of biomedicine. MEDLINE provides data on toxicology, nutrition, pharmacology, medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, psychiatry, medical engineering and pathology, communication disorders, population and reproductive biology.
MOBILE ACCESS: EBSCOhost is optimised for mobile use and has an iPhone/iPad and Android app available.
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Embase
Includes journals and other publications in the biomedical sciences.

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OTseeker
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated to assist you to evaluate their validity and interpretability. These ratings will help you to judge the quality and usefulness of trials for informing clinical interventions. In one database, OTseeker provides you with fast and easy access to trials from a wide range of sources.
PsycBITE
PsycBITE™ is a database that indexes studies of cognitive, behavioral, and other treatments for psychological problems and issues that occur as a consequence of acquired brain impairment (ABI). It is a free, Web-based resource.

Social Services Abstracts (via ProQuest)
Abstracts and indexes journals and other publications focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy and community development.

Provides abstracts and indexes of current research focused on social work, human services, and related disciplines, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
MOBILE ACCESS: Optimised for use on mobile devices.
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Web of Science
Abstracts and indexes journals and conference proceedings for all disciplines. You can do a Cited Reference Search to find articles cited by a previously published work.

A multidisciplinary journal index database which abstracts and indexes articles from some 5,100 journals in science and technology; 1,700 journals in the social sciences and 1,200 journals in the arts and humanities.
NOTE: The Web of Knowledge product platform has changed to the Web of Science. The collection of Citation Indexes which comprise the Web of Science - including the Arts & humanities citation index, Book citation index, Science citation index expanded and Social sciences citation index are unchanged and will now be known as the Web of Science Core Collection.
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Informit Search (multiple databases)
Informit is a search and retrieval interface for accessing the multi-subject Informit collection of Australian and selected South-East Asian databases.

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PubMed
Access journals and other publications for the biomedical and life sciences. Includes citations for articles from MEDLINE and selected full-text articles from PMC.

Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), this database was developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers.
MOBILE ACCESS: Connect to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/
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Key journals

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