Occupational Therapy: Journals, articles & databases

EThOS has been created to offer a single point of access to UK theses and plays a significant role in showcasing UK research to the world.  EThOS, which is hosted by the British Library, has more than 100 UK universities involved in the project and can offer an ever expanding range of titles as full text downloads. If an item you require is already in EThOS then it is immediately available for download to your desktop free of charge; if not, then you can choose to purchase a scanned copy from EThOS.

Access to 707,002 open access research theses from 595 Universities in 28 European countries.

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US.

BNI - provides abstracts and full-text for journal articles in many subjects, in particular Nursing, Midwifery and Health and Social Care. It indexes hundreds of journal titles focusing on those published in the UK, Australia and Canada with coverage from 1993 onwards.

Medline provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Medline uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.

APA PsycINFO provides coverage of behavioral science and mental health fields, containing nearly 4 million citations from 2500 journal titles. PsycINFO is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health, with ninety-nine percent of the covered material peer-reviewed.

BNF content is updated every month ensuring you have the latest information about the use of medicines.

BNFC content is updated every month ensuring you have the latest information about the use of medicines.

CCI Adults has been built with and for social workers and other professionals. The overall aim of the site is to improve standards of practice by equipping practitioners with the information they need to confidently make informed decisions and assessments; stay on top of the latest guidance, good practice, research, legislation and case law; and to actively expand their knowledge base by learning through case work.

CCI Children has been built with and for social workers and other professionals who work with children, young people and their families. The overall aim of the site is to improve standards of practice by equipping practitioners with the information they need to confidently make informed decisions and assessments; stay on top of the latest guidance, good practice, research, legislation and case law; and to actively expand their knowledge base by learning through case work.

Education Research Complete covers a range of subjects and all levels of education from early years to higher education. Content includes academic journals, teaching magazines and conference papers.

Embase is a biomedical and pharmacological database with access to more than 37 million records including articles from more than 8,100 journals published world-wide.

Part of the Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection from HS Talks, which provides immediate access to over 1,800 online seminar style talks containing the latest research, developments as well as the fundamentals presented by the world’s leading experts including a number of Nobel Laureates.

The Health Management Information Consortium contains details of articles and books in health management, social care, social policy and community care.

Maternity & Infant Care is an important essential resource for academics and healthcare professionals involved in the care of women and infants. This unique database contains over 225,000 bibliographic references with abstracts to articles from over 400 international English language journals, books, guidelines and grey literature relating to the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal care, infant feeding and neonatal care up to the second year of an infant’s life, and the transition to parenthood. Database coverage is from the mid-1980s.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive source of journal articles for sports & sports medicine, providing full text for 550 journals.

A free database from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). Social Care Online is the UK's most extensive database of social care and social work information. Provides abstracts and some full-text documents, journal articles, books, reports from central and local government and voluntary organizations, and research papers. Register and create a free account to make the best use of the database.

ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

PubMed provides free access to MEDLINE, NLM's database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Adds citations daily.

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources in the fields of Medicine, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences. The database also provides information on citation analysis for specific articles, authors, and journal metrics.

Use Sage Research Methods to learn about different research methods, find case studies and use statistical resources. 

Content

Access to hundreds of ebooks on research methods and methodology. There are also podcasts and videos to explain some concepts.

Tools

There are a number of tools to help you with your research project or dissertation:

• The Methods Map is a mind map that shows you how different research methods are related and links to information about those methods
• The Project Planner gives step-by-step guidance for your research project
• Which Stats Test can help you decide which statistical method is best for your data

A scientific citation indexing service that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialised sub-fields within an academic or scientific discipline.

The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews in education, crime and justice and social welfare on the effects of social interventions. Search the Campbell Library database to gain access to titles, protocols, systematic reviews and user abstracts.

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.