Welcome to your library subject page. This has been compiled by your subject librarian and is here to help you find information for your studies and research. It is not an exhaustive list of everything available, but will point you in the right direction.
OneSearch is a good place to start your research. However as you progress through your course you will need to develop your searching skills to incorporate other sources.
Watch the tutorial below for an introduction to searching or access our Finding Information page for more advice.
Click on the image above or use this link to view the tutorial: How to search tutorial
You can also sign up to our webinar for guidance on how you can develop your search skills.
We have selected some key eresources and individual journal titles to help you locate relevant material for your subject.
Use our eresources to search for relevant journal articles or other resources such as anatomy images. Although OneSearch does search many of these, using the subject specific collections will produce more tailored results and provide more relevant filters. Eresources for health is an online tutorial to help you use these resources.
In addition to these key full-text eresources you can also explore our full A-Z of eresources to see the whole list and see the for additional research specific resources.
| Eresource | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 |
Anatomy TV |
An Interactive 3D anatomy resource. Rotate the body, navigate through the layers and click on the image to bring up the relevant text. This resource uses Adobe Flash. If you are struggling to view it, these instructions should help. |
 |
Instant Anatomy | Diagrams, videos, podcasts and revision questions to help you get to grips with anatomy. |
| Occupational Therapy and health specific | ||
 |
CINAHL |
The key collection for Nursing and Allied health. It indexes (citations only) over 4000 journals and holds the full-text of 760 journals, plus linking to our other subscribed content. You will get fewer results but they should be more relevant. |
 |
MEDLINE | MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine journal citation database covering medicine, nursing, the health care system and much more. This version includes citations from 5,200 scholarly journals and full-text from more than 1,450. |
 |
Proquest Nursing and Allied Health | One of several collections from Proquest, all of which together form Proquest Central. This particular collection indexes 850 journals and holds the full-text of 715 Nursing and Allied health titles. More information in Getting started with Proquest databases. |
 |
Cochrane Library | Provides systematic reviews of clinical based research on the effectiveness of specific interventions. It will depend on your topic as to whether there will be a relevant review but if there is, it will be a key resource. Cochrane also runs a blog Evidence for everyday nursing, which pulls together reviews into a more digestible format. |
| Wider and multi-disciplinary | ||
 |
SPORTDiscus | Mostly full text, this collection covers journal articles, monographs and theses on sport, sport medicine, fitness and related disciplines. |
 |
ScienceDirect | Covers physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences and social sciences. As the name suggests it is more science based so it will depend on your topic whether you use this one. |
 |
Community Care inform | Case law, reference manuals, legislation, guides, research, practice, key documents and other resources for professionals working with children and young people. |
 |
Academic Search Complete | A huge multi-disciplinary database which indexes (citations only) over 9,500 journals and provides full-text to over 6,500. Good for a search on more general topics. |
|
Proquest Central | Pulls together many of the Proquest collections, searching thousands of journals across many subjects. More information in Getting started with Proquest databases. |
 |
Sage Journals | Whereas the collections above hold content from a number of publishers this collection holds 900 full-text peer reviewed journals published by Sage. Other publisher collections are available but this one has the most relevant full-text journals. |
| |
Dissertations and theses | Global collection with some full-text from 1997 onwards. It is possible to limit by level e.g. MSc. To access UoC undergrad dissertations go to Collections in OneSearch |
Browse or search inside key journal titles for your subject below. There are too many to mention but some of the key Occupational Therapy journals are listed below. All of these journals are peer reviewed and a good starting point. For a full range of titles check our A-Z of journals via Journals Search.
| Journal | Description | |
|---|---|---|
|
|
British Journal of Occupational Therapy | Published once a month this journal keeps you up to date with the latest developments in Occupational Therapy. Special issues themed around specific topics (e.g. stroke rehabilitation) are published yearly. |
| Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy | This journal aims to present leading-edge Occupational Therapy scholarship, providing a useful international perspective on contemporary issues in Occupational Therapy. It is published five times per year. | |
| Australian Occupational Therapy Journal | The official research publication of the professional peak body Occupational Therapy Australia. It includes empirical studies, theoretical papers, reviews and scholarly commentary. |
|
| OTJR: Occupation, Participation, and Health | This peer-reviewed journal from the American Occupational Therapy Foundation focuses on factors of human participation and how such factors influence health and well-being. | |
| American Journal of Occupational Therapy | The American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) is an official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), which represents the professional interests and concerns of more than 230,000 occupational therapists, assistants, and students nationwide. | |
The College of Occupational Therapists (COT) also offers a photocopy request service for the journals that they hold, and both members and non-members can make use of this. Full details of the journals available (and details of how to submit a request) are on the COT website.
| Organisations | ||
|---|---|---|
 |
Royal College of Occupational Therapists | The professional body for Occupational Therapy staff in the UK. |
| Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) | The Regulator for health, psychological and social work professionals. | |
| Department of Health and Social Care | The Government Department website. Access Guidance, Policy papers and statistics | |
| NICE provides guidance and advice on health and social care. Use the site to access Clinical Knowledge Summaries, guidance, standards and the BNF | ||
| Independent health think tank providing research and policy analysis. | ||
| King's Fund | Independent charity seeking to improve the health and systems in England | |
| World Health organisation (WHO) | The coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations. Use for Global Data and factsheets | |
| Evidence-based information | ||
|---|---|---|
| |
Provides resources and background information for healthcare professionals, with Critical Appraisal tools and educational material to download. | |
| Helps you to find and interpret the best available evidence from health research by providing some useful checklists. | ||
| Appraises research to identify the most reliable, relevant and significant findings to support the NHS. It disseminates these findings as Signals (The latest important research, summarised), Highlights (Conditions, treatments and issues explored using NIHR evidence) and Themed reviews. | ||
| A database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated to help you evaluate their validity and interpretability. | ||
| Health data and statistics | ||
|---|---|---|
| |
Office for National Statistics | Government statistics and reports including Heath and Social Care the census |
| Data and analysis for many conditions/issues from Public Health England. | ||
| Centralised collection of social research data for the UK including Access to key surveys such as the Health Survey England and the Continuous Household survey | ||
| With no centralised place for health statisics this site attemps to map to sources of statistics by theme. | ||
| Statistical information reports from Cancer Research | ||
| Statistics on risk factors for heart disease, from the British heart Foundation. | ||
| Contains Local Ward and Parish data. | ||
| Local data. Brings together analysis and research about the people of Cumbria. | ||
| WHO site pulling together global health data. | ||
| USA health statistics | ||
| Other useful sites | ||
|---|---|---|
| |
NHS Acronym buster | |
|
|
||
| People talk about their experiences of health and illness | ||
| Grey Literature covers all types of government and organisational documents: conference papers, policy documents, patient leaflets, blogs and more. The definition is that it isn't peer reviewed and is published by an organisation/body whose primary objective isn’t making money from publishing. Now that much more is held digitally and archived it is getting easier to find but can still be tricky. This site collects useful sources of Grey literature for health. | ||
Most hospitals will have a Library or Education centre. You are entitled to join as either a student on placement there or as a member of staff (includes bank staff). This will give you access to their print books and you can also request an Open Athens account. If you are on placement at the hospital you may be offered an introductory session by the library (Education centre). We recommend that you attend so that you can take full benefit of the additional resources that the NHS provides. If this doesn't happen, visit the library and ask to be signed up. You can find a list of NHS libraries here.
Similar to OneSearch this hub searches the NHS core collection of library resources and also gives quick access to NICE guidelines and BMJ best practice. It provides access to some collections that the University does not subscribe to, such as the British Nursing Index and Embase, as well as some we do, such as CINAHL. These are the resources that you will have access to in your professional career so it is a good idea to get familiar with them now.
You will need an OpenAthens account to view the full-text, search individual collections or access full-text. This is different to the University which uses something called Shibboleth or Institutional access.
A suite of online tutorials provided by Health Education England, supporting every aspect of healthcare. You can access some modules with a free registration but for them to count towards your CPD you need to log in with Open Athens.
See the guide on how to set up a free account e-LfH account creation.
Two new courses from the e-LfH - Literature searching and Critical Appraisal
| Help and Advice | Link | |
|---|---|---|
 |
If you are experiencing any problems accessing eresources, check our troubleshooting guide for advice. |
Accessing Online Resources |
 |
If you are experiencing problems logging into a resource, try resetting your university password using the MFA Password Reset Tool. If the problem persists, please contact the IT Service Desk (itservicedesk@cumbria.ac.uk). |
MFA Password Reset |
 |
The Student Enquiry Point is a new, simpler way to contact Student Services. Using the Student Enquiry Point tile on the Student Hub you can submit an enquiry relating to the wide range of services provided by Student Services. | Student Hub |
