Occupational Therapy Resources Guide

While basic PubMed is free to all Internet users, this link adds blue "Jefferson" buttons to individual citations that connect to Jefferson journal subscriptions and document delivery services for full-text options. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's own interface for MEDLINE and also includes PREMEDLINE (new citations which don't have their subject headings yet) and OLDMEDLINE (reaching back to the 1950s). Use it to identify journal articles on your biomedical topic.

MEDLINE on the OVID interface 1946-Now

This database is part of the EBSCO system, and like ProQuest's Research Library database and its associated modules, Academic Search Premier is multi-disciplinary, and therefore a good place to get started with your research. There are links to the full text of many of the articles indexed.

The Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers for finding articles, dissertations and more. The database also includes information about consumer health, patient education, and health sciences librarianship. It uses a special controlled vocabulary which overlaps in some areas with PubMed’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Complete text for some articles and testing instruments are available online.

Ovid is a suite of health-related databases which use the same interface. Databases in this suite include: MEDLINE, ERIC, Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA), APA PsycInfo, APA PsycArticles, HealthSTAR, Books@Ovid and Journals@Ovid.

Scopus is Jefferson Libraries’ broadest literature database for nursing, life and health sciences. Scopus searches citations and abstracts of over 44,000 sources across a broad spectrum of sciences, medicine, social sciences and technology, journals, books, conference papers, and world patent literature. Alerts and individual profiles are available. Since 1996, Scopus has indexed the citations and references for each document, making it possible to track citations to individual documents and authors. A suite of article, journal and author metrics are available to analyze research impact.

Trip is a clinical search engine that classifies results by evidence type: systematic reviews, guidelines, controlled trials, patient education, etc. SML does not subscribe to the Pro version. Select "Try out the new site!" link at the top of the page which is currently in Beta.

Requires Campus Key. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, it is an essential tool for education researchers of all kinds.

Also available via Ovid

Nexis Uni replaced LexisNexis Academic. It features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

DITKI offers biology, science for undergraduate and graduate/medical disciplines, integrated systems (e.g., neurological, respiratory) via a series of online, interactive illustrated and narrated tutorials. Exams for self-testing are included.

Concise overview for students and faculty accompanied by registration instructions.

This collection of over 550 journal titles in full text includes the following collections: Communication & Media Studies Collection, Criminology Collection, Politics & International Relations Collection, Sociology Collection, Education Collection, Psychology Collection, Nursing & Public Health Collection, Management & Organization Studies Collection, Materials Science & Engineering Collection, Urban Studies & Planning Collection.

Topics include: gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion and social work.

SpringerLink offers over 1,200 journals in full text. In addition to biomedical journals, subjects include mathematics, linguistics, material sciences, computer science, law and many other fields.