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Academic Video Online
AccessPhysiotherapy
Anatomy & Physiology Revealed
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CINAHL Ultimate
Health Source - Consumer Edition Health Source: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which includes Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Health Source: Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc.
Health Source Nursing/Academic Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which includes Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.
HSTalks: The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection
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Nursing Reference Center Plus
MEDLINE Ultimate MEDLINE Ultimate provides authoritative medical information on general health & medicine, pharmacology, neurology, molecular biology, genetics and genomics, histology, microbiology and many other subject domains. MEDLINE Ultimate uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,600 current biomedical journals. MEDLINE Complete is also the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 2,000 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,980 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, 900 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection. This wide-ranging file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index - with no embargo. With coverage dating back to 1809 and full-text back to 1865, MEDLINE Ultimate is the definitive research tool for medical literature.
Micromedex & CareNotes
Natural Medicines
PEDro
PubMed
UpToDate

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Ebooks

Ebook Collections

AccessPhysiotherapy AccessPhysiotherapy from McGraw-Hill Medical is devoted exclusively to the study, instruction, and practice of physical therapy – with groundbreaking content for today’s PT. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online physiotherapy resource integrates leading physical therapy textbooks, procedure and exercise videos, image galleries, self-assessment tools, and a unique cadaver dissection tool –optimized for viewing on any device.
Credo Reference and Ebooks Credo Reference cover 11,000+ reference topics from all major academic subject areas and is a great starting point for research. Entries include images, quotations, audio files, videos, ebooks and full text articles on a variety of topics. In addition to reference topics, Credo includes over 700 academic reference books. Credo's Nursing and Allied Health Collection provides access to 23 current nursing ebooks.
DSM Library
eBook Academic Collection
EBSCO Ebook Collection Search and view the library's full text ebook collection from EBSCO. The collection of 280,000+ titles covers all subject areas from general studies to allied health and medicine.
Sanford Guide Point-of-care recommendations for the treatment of infectious diseases.
Seating and Wheeled Mobility: A Clinical Resource Guide

American Journal of Occupational Therapy
-AJOT is available full text, 1980 - current in CINAHL Ultimate.

American Journal of Occupational Therapy

Journals & Journal Collections

Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
2009 - Present [Full Text Delay: 1 Year]
American Journal of Occupational Therapy
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
1995 - Present
BMJ
1991 - Present
Clinical Biomechanics
1995 - Present
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
1997 - Present
JAMA
1998 - Present
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
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Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice
2015 - Present
Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy
1993 - Present
Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy
1979 - Present
Journal of Physiotherapy
2010 - Present
Journal of Women's Health Physical Therapy
2005 - Present

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Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
1969 - Present

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Musculoskeletal Science and Practice
2017 - Present
New England Journal of Medicine
1990 - Present
Pain
2015 - Present

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Physiotherapy Research International
1996 - Present
Spine
1976 - Present

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Springer Nature Link Journals The Springer Nature eJournal collection includes more than 2,400 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, business, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences. Coverage for most journals is from the first issue to the current issue. Full-text available.

Rehab Management

PEDro PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 39,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice. PEDro is produced by Musculoskeletal Health Sydney, School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and is hosted by Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) The National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) is the library of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). We collect, catalog, and disseminate the articles, reports, curricula, guides, and other publications and products of the research projects funded by NIDILRR. NIDILRR funds more than 250 projects each year that conduct research on a wide range of issues including technology, health and function, independent living, and capacity building.
AOTA Resources for Students
NCBOT Exam Study Materials

MyAccess Account: Register for a MyAccess account remotely sign in to AccessPhysiotherapy, access the mobile website, and use additional features such as review questions and the cadaver dissection tool.

MyAccess Registration Guide

Seniors Flourish
The Seniors Flourish Podcast is an occupational therapy podcast helping occupational therapy practitioners working with older adults be the best they can be - not only by showcasing relevant interviews, answering questions, current articles and hot topics, but also to getting OT practitioners EXCITED about working with older adults, give actionable ideas that listeners can take and use in their own practice and have some FUN along the way
OT Potential
This podcast is for occupational therapy practitioners and students looking to keep up with evidence based practice. Each week, we discuss one influential OT-related journal article.
AOTA Podcast
Discussing all things occupational therapy and how to improve quality of OT services.
Spill the OT Podcast
Episodes with therapists discussing all aspects of the job, both the ups and the downs.

Career Resources

Exam Prep

PrepSTEP for Colleges and Universities
PrepSTEP is a dynamic online platform that can assist students in academic success and preparation for many occupational licensing exams for the programs offered at South College. PrepSTEP provides college prep materials including core math, science, and English skills, computer skills for use in self-directed study or as supplemental materials for developmental programs. In addition to college prep, it includes career prep materials and certification practice for graduating students including Praxis, NCLEX, TEAS, and PANCE prep, among many others.

Professional Associations

Library Orientation

Occupational Therapy Assistant Orientation

This orientation module is focused on Occupational Therapy resources. For a general library orientation, please choose one of the location-based orientations on the library's Orientations page.