Search Strategy
Open Access
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OJOT - The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy | Occupational Therapy | Western Michigan Universitya peer-reviewed, open-access journal with a mission to publish high quality articles that focus on applied research, practice, and education in the occupational therapy profession.
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OT SearchSponsored by AOTA, this is a bibliographic database covering the literature of occupational therapy and related subject areas. The full text of the indexed resources is not in this database, only the bibliographic information to identify the material and an author's abstract, when one exists. Ask a Librarian for help if you can't locate the cited journal.
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Google ScholarIf you must use Google, start at Google scholar. Benefits are Citing articles feature and a broad view of results. Drawbacks are lack of limits and full text access although there is a link if we own it and you're on Campus.
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OT SeekerAbstracts only but a comprehensive review of the literature.
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CINAHL with Full Textan index to the nursing and allied health literature
- 1982- present, updated monthly
- complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health -
Cochrane Library-collection of evidence-based medicine databases
-Systematic reviews available from 1990- present, records available from 1960-present; updated quarterly
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Gale OneFile. Health and medicineCreated specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals, Covers more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.
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Joanna Briggs Institute EBP DatabaseDatabase of recommended practice, systematic reviews, consumer information, and technical reports.
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PsycARTICLESIncludes: over 60 journals from American Psychological Assoc., Canadian Psychological Assoc., Hogrefe Publishing Group. Coverage: 1894 to present.
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ProQuest Central. Health & Medical CollectionSeveral neurology journals here
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PsycINFO- 2,400+ journals in 27 languages
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PubMed■Most comprehensive database of medical and biomedical literature.
■Free and accessible version of Medline from the National Library of Medicine
■1966- present, updated weekly
■More than 4,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries -
Rehabilitation Reference CenterEvidence-based, point-of-care resource is for physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and rehabilitation professionals.
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ScienceDirect- A database of full text scholarly journals.
- 1995 - present in full text for subscribed journals
- Covers approximately 2,000 scholarly periodicals. 1,200 are available in full-text through a consortial agreement.
** Articles that Le Moyne users have access to are indicated by a green notepad next to article citation. Articles that Le Moyne users do NOT have access to are indicated by a white notepad next to article citation.
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Quetzal® - Linguistic Searching of MEDLINE (PubMed) and the biomedical literatureSign up for a basic Quetzal account and get a focused PubMed search using common language
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ScopusScopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 22,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers, of which 20,000 are peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences (including arts and humanities).
Coverage: 1995 to present