Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) Research Guide: Finding Articles & More

OT Search is not a full-text database. To obtain full-text articles, try the following:

1. Once you find an article in OT Search, try searching the sources shown below for the title of your article.
2. Order the article through interlibrary loan by bringing the citation from OT Search to the Library Circulation Desk. NOTE: It can take a week or two to obtain material via interlibrary loan.

OT Search lists both books and journal articles. To obtain books, try the following:

1. Check the MCC Library catalog to see if the book is available at MCC or within I-Share. Use your MCC library card to place a hold on the book.
2. If the book is not available through MCC's resources, search WorldCat (link below) to find a library that owns the book you need. Order the book through interlibrary loan by bringing the citation from OT Search to the Library Circulation Desk. NOTE: It can take a week or two to obtain material via interlibrary loan.

Use the Journal List to search for specific OT journals such as:

• Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
• British Journal of Occupational Therapy
• Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

Click on the database listed in the results to go directly to that journal.  Then choose an issue to browse, or search for articles within the journal.

The Library has an electronic subscription to The American Journal of Occupational Therapy.  The link to this subscription is in the Databases box to the right.

Joshua Vossler's video "Selecting and Using Keywords"

Keywords and Database Searching

• Use specific keywords, not questions.
• Revise your keywords to see how that changes your results.
• Look for more keywords in the articles you find.