LibGuides: Occupational Therapy Resources: Home

OT Specific Databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Top nursing and allied health journals, evidence-based care sheets and quick lessons. Provides full-text access for more than 1,300 nursing & allied health journals.
American Occupational Therapy Association Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index of literature on occupational therapy and related subject areas.

Access limited to SAU students, faculty, and staff. Requires special password. Contact the library for further information librefdesk@sau.edu or 563-333-6245.
OT Seeker This link opens in a new window
Temporarily suspended by AOTA as of Spring 2022. This is a database that contains citations and abstracts of over 2500 systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. It does not contain any full-text.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Library Central This link opens in a new window
Library Central combines book and article searching into a single simple search box. Find information available in the St. Ambrose Library and beyond.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database with specialty journals on business, biology, science & technology, health and medical information, social sciences, arts and humanities, as well as newspaper sources.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text academic journals in the fields of economics, history, political science, sociology, Latin American and Middle Eastern studies, etc.

Nursing, Medicine, and Allied Health

MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Full-text journals on the subjects of business, science, education, law, engineering, medicine, social science, and psychology.

Please note that Wiley has free and paid content - remember to check Library Central for any articles that Wiley asks you to pay for.
Cochrane Library of Evidence-Based Medicine This link opens in a new window
A collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Full text and abstracts of methodology reviews, trials register, protocols, assessments, and evaluations of health care interventions.
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database This link opens in a new window
Free database of randomized trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review, or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible.

All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. PEDro is produced by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at The George Institute for Global Health.

Internet Resources

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Biomedical literature citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice)
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.
National Institutes of Health
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Created through a partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the American Medical Association, this site is an accessible means of obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
As an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, the AHRQ supports and provides research to improve the quality of health care services.

Tutorials for Library Services

APA Format Resources

Citation builders, such as EasyBib, NoodleTools Express, Ebscohost Cite can simplify the construction of a references list; however, there are often errors that need to be corrected. Use the citation help page below to learn the proper formatting, order, and mechanics of the elements of a citation.

SAU Citation Help page
This has some videos to help with formating and hanging indents, etc...