LibGuides: Occupational Therapy: Health Science Focused Resources

Specific Library Resource Tutorials

- INFOHOUND - An Information Literacy Tutorial
  This tutorial is an overview of the research landscape and basic research skills
- MEDLINE - MeSH Subject Headings and Searching Tutorials
  One important factor to be aware of as you search through many of our electronic databases is that in addition to keyword searching you may also use specific topic subject headings from a "controlled vocabulary" for the database. MEDLINE, published by the National Library of Medicine, uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).
- CINAHL Subject Headings Tutorial
  CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing & Allied Health) Plus with Full Text has its own subject headings that are separate and distinct from the MeSH headings used in MEDLINE.
- Video tutorial on CINAHL - Basic Review
  A tutorial for using the EBSCOHost interface for CINAHL.
- Video tutorial on CINAHL - Advanced Searching Techniques
  A tutorial on using the EBSCOHost interface for CINAHL.

Health Science & OT Focused Databases

These are suggested databases for finding articles on topics in the Health Sciences. For help with searching, or using the databases, refer to the online tutorial Finding Articles.

Reference Collection: Basic	Full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study
CINAHL Plus With Full Text - Nursing	Nursing, P.T., O.T., and allied health
Cochrane Library - Evidence Based Medicine	Nursing case studies database
Health Business FullTEXT	Healthcare administration
Health Source: Consumer Edition	General health care magazines
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition	Professional health care magazines
ICE Video Library	Demonstrations of medical conditions and therapeutic interventions in occupational and physical therapy. Database access limited to students and faculty in UIndy's College of Health Sciences. Contact School of OT for access "key" and log-in directions.
Lexis-Nexis Academic	Medical reference
MEDLINE - EBSCOHost	Medical research
MedlinePlus	Medical information for consumers/patients
OT Search	Occupational therapy

You may also wish to consider the databases relating to Psychology: PsyINFO, PsycEXTRA, PsychBOOKS, and PEP Archive. A full listing of the library’s databases is available at A-Z Databases

Search Terms

Aside from the MeSH and CINAHL subject headings, you also may encounter what is known as Boolean Operators. While not the friendliest name, boolean operators are used to help define the relationships between the words or groups of words you are searching for within a database. Parallel construction in them works like the following: narrows and retrieves, broadens and retrieves, narrows and retrieves. The good news is that there are only three of them!

They are:

And	Narrows search and retrieve records containing all of the words it separates,
Or	Broadens search and retrieve records containing any of the words it separates,
Not	Narrow search and retrieve records that do not contain the term following it.