Research Guides: Occupational Therapy: Introduction

Starting Points

This guide is for students in the Occupational Therapy program. Use the resources and information on this guide for help with course research. The Ginsburg Health Sciences Library and main campus Charles Library both have holdings in the areas of occupational therapy, health, population health, health promotion, psychology, and other therapies. For help with research, please email your librarian or schedule an appointment.

Top Resources

CINAHL This link opens in a new window
CINAHL covers nursing and allied health topics.
CINAHL Abstracting and Indexing Database
Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students depend on the CINAHL Database to research their subject areas from this authoritative index of nursing and allied health journals. CINAHL indexes the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. CINAHL also includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,446 active global OA journals.  Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.
Subject Headings
CINAHL Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine. These Subject Headings help researchers find new concepts, including COVID-19, social distancing and vaping as well as local terminology.
Content Includes
3,814 active indexed and abstracted journals
3,461 active peer-reviewed indexed and abstracted journals
1,312 journals with searchable cited references
ERIC [via ProQuest] This link opens in a new window
ERIC [via Proquest] provides access to education-related literature. Occupational therapy students will find articles on topics related to children and young adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities and their rehabilitative needs.
ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Social Sciences Premium contains public health journals, as well as OT titles.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a great starting point for interventions related to occupational therapy.