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Occupational Therapy (LAC)

Indexes & Databases

  • OT Search
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Not Available
    Occupational Therapy Bibliographic System (LAC Campus only or via password).

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  • Academic Search Premier
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

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  • BioMed Central
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Original research articles from over 100 BMC journals are freely available, though other content from some BMC journals is available only by subscription.

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  • CINAHL
    Coverage: From 1982
    Licensed Number of Users: 20
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Premier database for nursing and allied health literature. Includes references to journals, American Nurses' Association and National League for Nursing publications, nursing standards of practice, and critical paths. Updated monthly.

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  • ERIC - Education (EBSCO)
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1966
    The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides a database of journal and non-journal education literature for K-12 teachers, school administrators, education faculty, school psychologists and education students. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. This database contains more than 1.2 million citations going back to 1966. More than 110,000 full-text non-journal documents (from years 1993-present) are included in the database. The EBSCO version connects to many full-text journal articles through Linked Full Text and Article Linker.

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  • Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Evidence Based Medicine Reviews is a collection of four databases: 1. ACP Journal Club; 2. Cochrane Controlled Clinical Trials Register; 3. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and 4. Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE). This provides a definitive resource for electronic information in the evidence based medicince (EBM) movement.

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  • MEDLINE
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1966-present
    Index to more than 3,600 journals covering all areas of clinical and experimental medicine, nursing, dentistry and health administration. Updated weekly.

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  • PsycARTICLES
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1985
    PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from 53 psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists. The database is updated daily.

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  • PsycINFO
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage includes references and abstracts to over 1,300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. The database includes information from empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations. Updated weekly.

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  • PubMed
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1966-
    Developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed is a major medical database. It provides access to bibliographic/abstracting information from MEDLINE, plus out-of-scope citations from certain MEDLINE journals; citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing; and some additional life science journals that submit full-text and receive a qualitative review by NLM. Included are links to many sites with full-text articles.

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  • PubMed Central
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1970-
    PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

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Evelyn Greenlaw
Library Liaison

Phone: (207) 753-6541
E-mail: evelyng@usm.maine.edu
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