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Occupational Therapy: What's in this guide

A Library Guide of Occupational Therapy resources for students and staff of the University of Newcastle

What's in this Guide?

This guide contains key resources for research and assessments

Searching for journal articles (via databases and Google Scholar), as well as tips for finding journal articles
Searching for books, plus tips for locating books and accessing eBook collections
Finding multimedia and image resources
Locating online tutorials, including database tutorials
Correct referencing of your academic work
Accessing help with library services and resources
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Key resources

CINAHL complete
Broad content coverage for nursing, midwifery and allied health specialties, speech and language pathology, general health and medicine.
OTseeker
OTseeker contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to inform occupational therapy practice.
BMJ best practice
Step-by-step approach, combining latest research, evidence, guidelines and expert opinion.
ClinicalKey
Includes local Australian content, provides access to selected medical texts and journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts and Continuing Medical Education (CME) materials.
Individual registration is required to download full-text book chapter PDFs, and to use the Presentation Maker or access Search History, Saved Searches and Saved Content. Note: Selected textbooks are not available for download. If you have a personal username and password for another Elsevier product, such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal or Mendeley, the same login details will work here in ClinicalKey. If you need to create a login click Register at top of the ClinicalKey homepage. Please use your University of Newcastle email address

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Last Updated: Oct 19, 2021 12:11 PM
URL: https://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/occupational-therapy
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Subjects: Health, Occupational Therapy

Tags: allied health, occupational_therapy