D'Amour Library: OTD Fieldwork Educators: Home

Welcome Fieldwork Educators

As a Fieldwork Educators and Site Mentors for the Division of Occupational Therapy at Western New England University, you have access to many of the resources at D'Amour Library. Unfortunately, some of our licenses do not allow us to offer remote access to fieldwork educators; the resources listed on this page are available to you from off-campus.

To request a library barcode and PIN (necessary for accessing resources from off-campus) or if you're having trouble finding the information you need, please contact the Health Sciences Librarian, or use the instant messaging widget at the right-hand side of the page.

To enter your barcode and PIN, choose Alternate Login: WNE Library Barcode/PIN (on the right) as your sign-in option when you see the screen below.

Resources for Fieldwork Educators

Alt-HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
A "full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers the latest information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies. "
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
For scholarly psychology research. Indexes and abstracts articles in psychology and related fields. Includes linked full-text. 1887 to present, updated daily.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
"CINAHL Complete provides broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more."
Cochrane Collection Plus This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Collection is a great source for Evidence-Based Medicine systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The collection contains the Cochrane Methodology Register, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, and more.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal and non-journal education literature from the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). Includes full-text, 1966 - present, updated monthly. Also available at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/
Health and Psychosocial Instruments This link opens in a new window
A "comprehensive bibliographic database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. It also provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from Industrial Organizational Behavior and Education."
ICE Video Library This link opens in a new window
This collection includes over 175 video clips, and is designed specifically for physical and occupational therapy. Videos cover a wide range of diagnoses and treatment settings. Access is available only to OTD faculty and students.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE is a database of indexed citations and abstracts. Produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), MEDLINE covers fields related to biomedicine and health including biochemistry, anatomy, genetics, and structural and molecular biology.
OTseeker This link opens in a new window
"OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions."
PubMed This link opens in a new window
A database from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) which covers “the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences.” Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE, and their citations are searchable using NLM’s controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).
Trip Medical Database This link opens in a new window
Quickly and easily search across a wide variety of evidence-based research.

Capstone Projects

You can view past capstone projects completed by WNE OTD students here:

OTD Capstone Projects