Occupational Therapy Resources: Databases/eJournals
OTD Databases
- Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic This link opens in a new windowDesigned for doctors, research scientist, students and clinical specialists, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. A subset of MEDLINE.
- CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new windowCINAHL complete is a comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINHAL
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowThis database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. - MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE with Full Text provides the authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences found on MEDLINE, plus the database provides full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, nearly 1,450 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE.
- New England Journal of Medicine This link opens in a new windowNEJM has the highest ranking of any medical research journal. It is also ranked as a top essential journal by physicians in 12 specialties. Access is provided to all NEJM content from 1990 to present (over 31,000 NEJM articles containing more than 55,000 images, tables, video, and audio) on an easy-to-access digital platform.
- OTseeker This link opens in a new windowOTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. Most trials have been critically appraised for their validity and interpretability.
- Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source This link opens in a new windowThe database covers a broad range of rehabilitation and sports medicine topics including orthopedics, physiology, nutrition, sports exercise, physical therapy and more.
- Sage Premier This link opens in a new window
Access to over 900 peer-reviewed journals. SAGE Premier offers broad interdisciplinary coverage of a wide range of subject areas, including business, humanities, social science, and science, technology and medicine.
- ScienceDirectScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and 26,000 books. HU pays per article for this database so please read the abstract and be selective and careful about requesting full text access. When you find the article you want click on "Get Access" and then "Order Interlibrary Loan".
Full Text Periodicals
RichLyn Library has access to over 60,000 full-text journals and magazines. You may search for journals by title at these links:
Core OT eJournals
- AJOT: American Journal of Occupational TherapyFull Text: 1980 - present
- British Journal of Occupational TherapyFull Text: 1999 - present
- Canadian Journal of Occupational TherapyFull Text: 1999 - present
- JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association This link opens in a new windowFull-text: 1883 - present
- Journal of Allied HealthFull Text: 2001 - 2020
- Occupational Therapy in Health CareFull Text: 1997 - present
- Occupational Therapy InternationalFull Text: March 1, 2000 - present
- OTJR: Occupation, Participation and HealthFull Text: 2002 - present
- Scandinavian Journal of Occupational TherapyFull Text: March 2, 1999 - present (with a 18 Month delay)
Other Useful Databases
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) HomeThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. We accomplish our mission by focusing on our three core competencies.
- ClinicalTrials.govClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowThe Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases that help inform healthcare decision-making, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers.
- Coronavirus Research Database This link opens in a new windowThe Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context.
- National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)NARIC publications and articles focused on rehabilitation.
- PEDroPhysical Therapy database with abstracts of systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and ratings.
- PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new windowThe American Psychological Association's (APA) definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
- PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowRenowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, it is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
- SpeechBiteAn evidence-based database of literature related to speech therapy. Includes PEDro ratings.
- TRIP Medical DatabaseMedical search engine with an emphasis on evidence based practice (EBP), clinical guidelines and queries. (free version)