Erin Burns
eburns@psu.edu
724-983-2883
Erin Burns
eburns@psu.edu
724-983-2883
LionSearch is the "gateway" for thousands of articles, books, DVDs and more.
You can search LionSearch by using:
CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health)
Comprehensive Coverage of nursing and allied health journals. Also includes references to relevant books, chapters, nursing dissertations, association publications, educational software, research instruments, and selected conference proceedings. Coverage from 1982-present. Upadtes: Monthly.
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Journals
A full text database subset of CINAHL, including only 300 full-text journals that are licensed to ProQuest. Coverage is typically from 1996, with a few titles prior to that date. Includes OT Practice.
PubMed is a web interface that allows you to search MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's premier database of citations and abstracts for biomedical research articles. The core subject is medicine, but subject coverage also includes bioethics, biology, chemistry, dentistry, environmental health, genetics, gerontology, health care planning and administration, history of medicine, hospital administration, microbiology, nutrition, nursing (International Nursing Index), physiology, pre-clinical sciences, public health, sports medicine, veterinary medicine and zoology. MEDLINE covers over 4,800 journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 15 million citations dating back to 1950. Coverage is worldwide and updated weekly. Learn more about PubMed at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html. or Try the Tutorial at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
To find specific journals, click on the E-JOURNAL tab in the START HERE box on the front page, and then search for the title of the journal that you want, or type in "occupational therapy" and search for titles of journals.
Examples of OT Journals:
Once you have your key concepts and keywords, you can use The CAT to find books on your topic.
Using the "Begins With (Browse)" search, you can search the CAT using book titles or authors' names. Authors' names should be entered "last name, first name" and titles should be entered without the initial article (the, a, an...). If the book you want is about the author, make sure you search the name as a Subject, not Author.
Examples: Morton, J. -OR- occupational therapy and rehabilitation
Don't have a title/author in mind? Instead of a "Keyword" Search, try using the "Topic: Title+Subject" search option with one or more keywords.
