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Resources
for Occupational Therapy
Professional Organizations and related web sites
Government Web Sites
Databases
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CINAHL
- Available via WebSPIRS, CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, covers
nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and over a dozen other allied health disciplines. The CINAHL database also includes pertinent articles from the biomedical, education, behavioral science, management,
alternative medicine, and popular literature. CINAHL
provides the best coverage of the Occupational Therapy journal
literature.
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MEDLINE
- Available via WebSPIRS, Medline is the largest biomedical database
in the world, growing at an average rate of over 1,000 records per
day. It provides extensive coverage of clinical medicine and medical
research. In addition it provides good coverage of many allied
health fields and related disciplines. Medline is an excellent
source for literature on diseases and therapies.
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- The Cochrane Library
- The Cochrane Library consists of three databases: 1) the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (full text), 2) the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (abstracts only), 3)
the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (citations only). The
systematic reviews are the most important database in the library. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to
minimize bias.
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PsycINFO
- Available via EBSCOHost, PsycINFO covers the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal
coverage includes international material selected from more than 1,500 periodicals written in over 35 languages.
Over 60,000 references are added annually. PsycINFO is produced and copyrighted by the American Psychological
Association.
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- ERIC
- The database indexes articles from over 2,000 journals from 1966 to the
present, as well as various technical and government reports. Coverage includes adult, career, and vocational education; information and technology; assessment and evaluation; language and linguistics; disabilities and gifted education; reading and communication; educational management; teacher and teacher education;
elementary and early childhood education; urban education; higher education and more.
Reference Works
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Willard & Spackman's occupational therapy
9th ed. Edited by Maureen E. Neistadt, Elizabeth Blesedell Crepeau.
Philadelphia : Lippincott-Raven, c1998.
Reserve: WB555 W692 1998
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StatRef
- Contains the full text of Mosby's Physician's GenRx, USP-DI
volumes I & II, Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology
Degowin's Diagnostic Examination, The ICU Book, Principles and
Practice of Emergency Medicine, Principles of Surgery, Griffith's 5
Minute Clinical Consult, Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment,
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics, Current Pediatric
Diagnosis & Treatment, Smith's General Urology, Review of General
Psychiatry, DSM IV TR, Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, Medical
Immunology, Review of Medical Physiology, and definitions from Stedman's
Medical Dictionary.
Occupational therapy : enabling function and
well-being
2nd ed. Edited by Charles H. Christiansen, Carolyn M. Baum. Thorofare, NJ : SLACK, c1997.
Reserve: WB555 O1427 1997
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Occupational therapy of physical dysfunction
4th
ed.
Editor: Catherine A. Trombly. Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, c1995.
Reserve: WB555 O143 1995
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Occupational therapy : practice skills for
physical dysfunction
5th ed.
Edited by Lorraine Williams Pedretti, Mary Beth Early ; with 53
contributors.
St. Louis : Mosby, c2001.
Reserve: WB555 O149 2001
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Harrison's
- Includes the full text of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (IP subscription, click on subscriber login button
to access)
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Journals (a few representative titles)
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American journal of occupational therapy
(American Occupational Therapy Association)
Abbreviated title: Am. j. occup. ther.
Other title: AJOT
HSL has: V.3 (1949) - V.6 (1952); V.8 (1954) - V.9 (1955); V.17 1963) - present
Indexed: CINAHL, MEDLINE
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British journal of occupational therapy
(British Association of Occupational Therapists)
Abbreviated title: Br. j. occup. ther.
HSL has: V.55 (1992); V.57 (1994) - present
Indexed: CINAHL
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Journal of occupational science
(University of South Australia. School of Occupational Therapy)
Abbreviated title: J. occup. sci.
HSL has: V.1 (1993) - present
Indexed: CINAHL
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Occupational therapy international
Abbreviated title: Occup. ther. int.
Other title: OTI
HSL has: V.5 (1998) - present
Indexed: CINAHL
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Occupational therapy journal of research
(American Occupational Therapy Foundation)
Abbreviated title: Occup. ther. j. res.
HSL has: V.3 (1983) -V.6 (1986); V.11 (1991) - present
Indexed: CINAHL
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Journal of allied health
(Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions)
Abbreviated title: J. allied health
HSL has: V.16 (1987) - present
Indexed: CINAHL, MEDLINE
Related web sites
- Offers a wide range of OT resources, including associations, research,
journals, diagnosis, news, etc.
- OT Direct
Links to OT study guides, jobs, research, training, and MEDLINE
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