LibGuides: Occupational Therapy: Find Articles

Evidence-based Research Resources

UpToDate This link opens in a new window
An evidence-based, peer reviewed source of medical information.

AOTA's Evidence-Based Practice
Divided into sections such as Children & Youth, Productive Aging and Rehabilitation & Disability. Each section has an evidence-based practice area with an extensive lists of links. Select a topic (e.g.: Children & Youth) from the menu on the left. Select Evidence-based practice option in the menu under the selected topic.
OT Seeker
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. Most trials have been critically appraised for their validity and interpretability. In one database, OTseeker provides fast and easy access to information from a wide range of sources to inform occupational therapy.

AHQR: Evidence-based Practice This link opens in a new window
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. This section focuses specifically on evidence-based practice.

GuidelineCentral
Free access to thousands of current clinical practice guidelines and guideline summaries.
PEDro
EDro is a Physiotherapy Evidence-Based Medicine database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy.

Periodical Databases

BioMedCentral This link opens in a new window
BioMed Central is a leader in the Open Access publishing movement. This database includes full-text articles from more than 100 peer-reviewed biomedical journals.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Premier biomedical database. It covers national and international literature on all aspects of biomedicine, including the allied health fields.
Digital Commons Network This link opens in a new window
Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide including a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
The Educational Resources Information Center is a unique database which indexes over 500 education and education-related journals, 2,200 digests, and 500,000+ ERIC documents from 1966+.
APA PsychINFO This link opens in a new window
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 750,000 records in sport, physical fitness, and related fields, from international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.

OT CATS
A critically appraised topic (or CAT) is a short summary of evidence on a topic of interest, usually focused around a clinical question. When professionals summarise a single study, the outcome is a critically appraised paper (or CAP). This site contains CATs and CAPs focussing on occupational therapy interventions. These occupational therapy CATs have not been formally peer reviewed.

Alt-HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 160 complementary, alternative, and holistic health care publications, about 20 of which are peer-reviewed.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database providing access to over 4,500 publications with full text coverage for more than 3,500 scholarly journals
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. By logging into Google Scholar through the library proxy server, you will have faccess to all full-text resources available through the library.