Articles & Dissertations - OCTH 540 - Research Methods in Occupational Therapy - Research Guides at Eastern Michigan University

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Esearch This link opens in a new window
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Info type: scholarly articles, professional articles, magazine articles, news articles, dissertations and theses
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Journal Article Databases

CINAHL This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles in the fields of nursing, occupational therapy, orthotics and prosthetics, health administration, speech pathology, nutrition, laboratory sciences, and other allied health professions.
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This library is composed of six databases containing Cochrane reviews, systematic reviews, clinical trials, and methods, assessments, and economic studies in health care.
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MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
This database indexes biomedical journals published nationally and internationally in the areas of the allied health professions, microbiology, health care administration, nutrition, pharmacology, nursing, clinical medicine. Medline is part of PubMed.
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Reviews of educational and psychological tests.
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OTDBASE This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts articles from 26 occupational therapy journals.
Subjects: Occupational Therapy
Info type: scholarly articles
Access Tips: No Findtext+, use Journals by Title to find articles. Off campus, use My.Emich login.

OTseeker
This database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions.

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Psychology, Education, Business, Communication, Linguistics, Social Work
Info type: scholarly articles, book info, conference papers, dissertations
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PubMed This link opens in a new window
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Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Sociology
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Dissertations & Theses Databases

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Info type: scholarly articles, theses, dissertations
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Info type: full text dissertations and theses (1997- ), descriptions of dissertations and theses (1861- ).

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

EMU FindText+

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Defining Peer Review & Verifying if a Journal is Peer Reviewed/ Using Ulrich's

Defining Peer Review & Verifying if a Journal is Peer Reviewed