Research Guides: Occupational Therapy: Research Databases

Interdisciplinary Databases

Google Scholar
Main Subject Area Covered: All subjects
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature on the Web. It provides links to thousands of full-text articles, and allows users to set Scholar Preferences such as linking to sources available in the Wagner College Library.
Academic Search Premier [EBSCO]
Main subject area covered: All subjects.
Academic Search Premier provides indexing and abstracting of almost 7,000 peer-reviewed journals, with full text for over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. All major academic subject areas are covered.

Science & Medicine Databases

Access Medicine
AccessMedicine provides medical students with a variety of resources needed to excel in basic science studies and clerkships; helps residents, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading medical textbooks that facilitate decision-making at the point-of-care; enables faculty to create, track, and report their students’ progress through a curriculum tool that eases workflow; and allows practicing physicians to brush up on their medical knowledge to ensure the best patient outcome.
CINAHL with Full Text [EBSCO]
Main subject area covered: Health Sciences & Nursing.
The Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of nursing and allied health scholarship. Includes full-text access to over 560 nursing and allied health journals.
Cochrane Collection Plus [EBSCO]
Main subject area covered: Nursing
Cochrane Collection Plus combines the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) and Health Technology Assessments (HTA) with the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Cochrane Methodology Register.
Health and Medicine (Gale)
Main subject area covered: Health
The Health Reference Center Academic database integrates millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources. Also includes hundreds of audio and video files on health topics.
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Health Source Nursing/Academic [EBSCO]
Main subject area covered: Health Sciences & Nursing.
This database provides nearly 550 full text journals focusing on nursing and other related medical disciplines.
MEDLINE [EBSCO]
Main subject area covered: Medicine.
MEDLINE indexes more than 3,600 medical journals published internationally and contains technical medical research geared towards physicians, medical professionals, and scholarly researchers. For general health information, try the Health Reference Center database.
PubMed
PubMed, provided by the National Library of Medicine, is the free web-based version of the Medline database.

Specialized Databases

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently-researched information on important matters in science and health policy.
NCBI Bookshelf
Free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
PEDro has been designed to support the practice of evidence-based physiotherapy. It gives rapid access to the best research evaluating the effects of physiotherapy interventions.
RehabData (NARIC)
The REHABDATA database spans almost 50 years of disability and rehabilitation research. More than 200,000 abstracts are available through this database, including approximately 115,000 records originally indexed.
SpeechBite
Speech Pathology Database for best interventions and treatment efficacy.

Database Tutorial Videos & Documents

Library Database Tutorials Links
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