HELPFUL WEBSITES

Multiple Search Engine Suggestions: (the advanced search option will give better results)

www.metacrawler.com   

www.dogpile.com          

www.aj.com (Ask Jeeves for adults) 

www.ajkids.com (Ask Jeeves for Kids)

Single Search Engine Suggestions: 

www.google.com

www.fast.com

www.WISEnut.com

www.altavista.com

Professional Organization Websites: (do not have to belong to these organizations to use the sites)

American Occupational Therapy Association: www.aota.org

American Speech and Hearing Association: www.asha.org

SC Speech and Hearing Association: www.scsha.com                                   

American Physical Therapy Organization: www.apta.org                            

SC PT Association: www.scapta.org                                    

Patient-Level Materials - Adults

American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons: www.aaos.org          

American Association of Retired Persons: www.aarp.org               

Arthritis Foundation: www.arthritis.org           

Links to government, organization, foundation, and institute resources: www.healthfinder.gov

National Library of Medicine: http://medlineplus.gov

Virtual Hospital sponsored by the University of Iowa: www.vh.org

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (has a health hoaxes/rumors section): www.cdc.gov

Good source for patient-level material, especially Spanish: www.noah-health.org/index.html

American Medical Association consumer info site: www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3158.html

This is the site map for the National institute on Aging.  Variety of patient information: http://www.nia.nih.gov/SiteMap.htm

Multiple sclerosis: http://www.nmss.org/ 

Parkinson: http://www.pdf.org/

Parkinson: www.apdaparkinson.org     

Alzheimer’s and Dementia: www.alzheimers.org 

Stroke: www.stroke.org

Brain injury: www.biausa.org

ALS: www.alsa.org

Resources for Professional Articles:

Sources for Open-Access Full-Text Articles

BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com/ )

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (http://www.doaj.org )

Find Articles (http://www.findarticles.com )

HighWire Press (http://highwire.stanford.edu/ )

PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ )

Databases - Open-Access Databases

AgeLine (http://www.aarp.org/research/ageline/ )

The Cochrane Collaboration (http://www.cochrane. org/index0.htm )

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) (http://www.eric.ed.gov/ )

MedLine Pub/Med (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB= pubmed)

OTseeker (http://www.otseeker.com/ )

Rehabdata (http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/ default.cfm )

Fee-Based Databases

The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (Cinahl) (http://www.cinahl.com/)

OT Search (http://www.aota.org/otsearch/index.asp )

OTDBASE (http://otdbase.org/ )

PsycInfo (http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/ ).

Reference Information: Binderman, M. S., & Hecker, M. (2007). Surfing or searching the Internet? When to ride the crest or dive deeper. [Electronic Version]. OT Practice, 12(1), 16–19.