Occupational Therapy
Merinda McLure
Librarian for OT
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Contents
- Library Accounts
- Dictionaries/
- Occupational Therapy Websites
- Colorado Websites
- Organizations
- Find Articles
- Newspapers
- Books and More
- Dissertations/Theses
- Statistics
- RSS Feeds
- Multimedia
- Writing and Citing
Encyclopedias
More Help
Starting points for finding information.
See also the research guides for biomedical sciences and health and exercise science.
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias Online
- Medical Dictionary (via MedlinePlus)
- A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia (via MedlinePlus)
Includes medical photographs, illustrations, and information about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. - Encyclopedia of the Life Sciences
A CSU Libraries electronic resource. 3,700+ peer-reviewed articles with color illustrations and tables.
Occupational Therapy Websites
- HealthWeb: Occupational Therapy
Links to evaluated, non-commercial, health-related, online resources.
A collaborative project of 20+ health sciences libraries.
See also HealthWeb: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. - National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC): Research
Searchable collection of resources related to rehabilitation and disability research.
Colorado Occupational Therapy Websites
Organizations
- HealthWeb: Occupational Therapy Organizations
Links to OT organizations worldwide. Browse by country/state. - National Institutes of Health (NIH): Institutes, Centers, and Offices
Links to institutes, centers, and offices, such as the National Institute on Aging and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Find Articles
First try our 3-minute basic and advanced search tutorials.
- Search CSU Libraries databases for research in occupational therapy.
The database OTDBASE is a good starting point.
See also the broader database listings for the social sciences and biomedical science.
will appear in your database search results. Use it to discover if the fulltext of an article (print/electronic/microtext) is available through CSU Libraries.
Imagine that our database search returns the following article description. Click the FindIt button to see if you can retrieve the fulltext article:
Goldstein, S. (2006). Students' and instructors' beliefs about excellent lecturers and discussion leaders. Research in Higher Education, 47(6), 685-707.
Use interlibrary loan to request journal articles that are not available through the CSU Libraries, or to request a PDF copy of articles only available in print/microtext.
Learn about Endnote software and services for directly exporting citations from databases, organizing your research, and creating your footnotes/endnotes/reference list.
Newspaper/Newswire Articles
First try our 3-minute basic and advanced search tutorials.
- Search CSU Libraries databases for newspaper/newswire articles.
See also the above information about using the button that you will see in your search results.
Use interlibrary loan to request journal articles that are not available through the CSU Libraries, or to request a PDF copy of articles only available in print/microtext.
Books and More
Before searching for more books, try our 3-minute basic and advanced search tutorials.
- Start by looking for items owned by CSU Libraries (Sage catalog).
- You might also look for items available for loan from Colorado and Wyoming Libraries (Prospector).
- Still need more? Try searching the WorldCat database for items at libraries worldwide.
Use interlibrary loan to request items found in WorldCat and not available in the CSU Libraries. - Ebooks: National Academies Press
Many freely accessible titles in health and medicine, and more. - Ebooks: National Center for Biotechnology Information Bookshelf
Freely accessible titles in the biomedical sciences.
Dissertations/Theses
First try our 3-minute basic and advanced search tutorials.
- Use the CSU Libraries database, Dissertations and Theses: Fulltext
Search by topic/author/other for dissertations/theses completed worldwide. Download fulltext (PDF) for many completed 1997 or later.
Use interlibrary loan to request theses/dissertations that are not available in fulltext.
Statistics
- Search the CSU Libraries catalog (Sage)
try searches such as: disabilities AND statistics - Health Statistics Sources by Subject (Hirsh Health Sciences Library, Tufts University)
Links to online sources for health statistics. Organized by categories such as aging and children. - Federal Government Resources for Statistics
Links to federal government sites that provide statistical information.
- Federal Government Resources for Current Issues
Links to government reports on current issues; often include statistics.
- Colorado Statistics
Links to sites that provide Colorado statistics.
- Statistical Universe (Lexis Nexis)
CSU Libraries database providing access to statistics produced by federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations.
RSS
- Understanding RSS Feeds (University of Kansas Libraries)
Quick guide to the what/why/how of RSS feeds.
- News, RSS, and Blog Search Engines (University of Kansas Libraries)
Short, practical guide to specialized search engines.
Multimedia on the Web
- Medical Image Databases on the Internet (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Library)
A large listing of links to medical image collections on the Web. Additional information about searching for medical images online. - Multimedia Search Tools (Jenkins Law Library)
Guide to specialized search engines for audio, video, and images. - Finding Images on the Web (Boston University Libraries)
Guide to online image collections, image search engines, and more.
Writing and Citing
- Writing@CSU
Writing resources for CSU students.
- The Owl at Purdue
Clear, practical advice on writing and citing.
- APA Formatting and Style Guide (The Owl at Purdue)
Examples and guidance for American Psychological Association (APA) style.
- (Paper) Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Library reserve copies of the complete print guide to APA style, available for checkout. Ask for additional copies at the library Help Desk
- (Paper) APA Style Guide to Electronic References
New in 2007, this brief guide deals specifically with APA citation for electronic sources.
- Common Types of Writing Assignments (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Brief, helpful information on how to approach annotated bibliographies, literature reviews, dissertation proposals, and more.
- Zotero for Organizing and Citing Zotero is a free Mozilla Firefox extension that can help you organize and cite the information sources you use in your research. see what Zotero can do | download Zotero | getting started & help information
- Endnote for Organizing and Citing Endnote software can help you organize and cite the information sources you use in your research. Information on campus access and help.
- Create References in Word 2007 A brief tutorial on creating citations and references in Word 2007.