Subject and Course Guides: Occupational Therapy: Journals and Articles

Journals of Interest

Recommended Databases

Searching more than one database provides a more comprehensive look at your topic, especially in the field of Occupational Therapy.

PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's to present.

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. Pub Med includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL covers literature related to nursing and allied health.

The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.
EMBASE : Excerpta Medica Database
Database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research. From 1974 to present.

EMBASE is an abstract and indexing database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research. It currently contains more than 15 million records from Excerpta Medica Database (1974 to present) and selected Medline records (1966-present). Currently the Library does not own the archives of Embase from 1947 to 1973.
Cochrane Library
Independent medical evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain independent evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions.
* Cochrane Reviews, aka Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
* Other Reviews, aka Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
* Clinical Trials; aka Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
* Methods Studies, aka Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)
* Technology Assessments, aka Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)
* Economic Evaluations, aka National Health Service (NHS) Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED)
* Cochrane Groups, aka About the Cochrane Collaboration
ICE Video Library
Provides powerful streaming video collections of real patients and therapists in occupational therapy and physical therapy programs. Videos are available 24/7 for in-class or online teaching.

Note: You must download the Cisco Anyconnect VPN to access ICE Learning Videos.
Here are instructions for Windows, MAC, Linux, Android, and IOS users:

Windows: https://help.uillinois.edu/TDClient/37/uic/KB/ArticleDet?ID=973
MacOS : https://help.uillinois.edu/TDClient/37/uic/KB/ArticleDet?ID=904
Linux: https://help.uillinois.edu/TDClient/37/uic/KB/ArticleDet?ID=910
Android: https://help.uillinois.edu/TDClient/37/uic/KB/ArticleDet?ID=954
IOS https://help.uillinois.edu/TDClient/37/uic/KB/ArticleDet?ID=964

Occupational therapy and/or Rehabilitation oriented databases:

PEDro
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 17,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
OT seeker (Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence)
Contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions.
REHABDATA
Produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center, it includes content from the former CIRRIE Database of International Rehabilitation Research. It describes over 80,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities.

Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source
Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source provides indexing for over 200 sports medicine and rehabilitation journals.
Rehabilitation Reference Center
Rehabilitation Reference Center (RRC) is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. RRC provides therapists and students with available evidence for their information needs in the areas of: Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and more.

Databases on instruments:

Rehabilitation Measures Database
View descriptions, instructions, and bibliographies for over 300 rehabilitation instruments.

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The Rehabilitation Measures Database (www.rehabmeasures.org) was developed to help clinicians and researchers identify reliable and valid instruments used to assess patient outcomes during all phases of rehabilitation. The database provides evidence-based summaries that include concise descriptions of each instrument’s psychometric properties, instructions for administering and scoring each assessment as well as a representative bibliography with citations linked to PubMed abstracts. Whenever possible, we have also included a copy of the instrument for the users to download or information about obtaining the instrument.

The development of this database was guided by focus groups composed of physical, occupational, and speech therapists, as well as psychologists and nurses with experience in rehabilitation medicine. Currently, we have reviewed nearly 300 instruments for use with a number of diagnosis including stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury among several others.

HAPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments :
Information on measurement instruments (questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests). Limited to 10 simultaneous users.

This is a database that provides information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

Additional useful databases:

Professional Development Collection (for educators)
Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 600 full text education journals, 1965 to present.

Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 600 full text education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.
ERIC on EBSCOhost
Educational materials. (Available through multiple providers; other options on Databases A-Z page.)

ERIC is the world's largest education database. Published by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI).
Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools that track, analyze and visualize research.
Web of Science
Access to the Web of Science Core Collection which is the largest citation database in science, engineering, medicine and technology; also the social sciences, arts and humanities are represented.

The Web of Science, provided by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) a division of Thomson Reuters, is an index of current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from 1975 on. The bibliographic records from approximately 8,700 high impact research journals are mostly linked to full-text articles.
PsycINFO
Now called APA PsycINFO. Abstract and index of Psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, sociology, business, education, etc.

PsycINFO contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from materials in 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. Updated weekly.

Large health-oriented databases:

Subject Guide

Amelia Brunskill

Contact:

Amelia Brunskill
Library of the Health Sciences,
abrunsk2@uic.edu

(312) 996-8323

Subjects: Applied Health Sciences, Biomedical & Health Information Sciences, Citation Management, Disability & Human Development, Kinesiology & Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy

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Occupational Therapy: Journals and Articles

Journals of Interest

Recommended Databases

Occupational therapy and/or Rehabilitation oriented databases:

Databases on instruments:

Additional useful databases:

Large health-oriented databases:

Subject Guide

Locations

Richard J. Daley Library

Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago

Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria

Crawford Library of the Health Sciences-Rockford

Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana