An Overlap Analysis of Occupational Therapy Electronic Journals Available in Full-text Databases and Subscription Services

ABSTRACT

In order to convert occupational therapy journal subscriptions from print to electronic, a university library, in collaboration with its Occupational Therapy Program, compared full-text databases and journal subscription services. This comparison was designed to identify the best combination of databases and individual subscriptions for the highest number of electronic titles and the best years of coverage.

KEYWORDS:

• Allied health
• collection development
• databases
• EBSCOhost databases
• e-journals
• electronic journals
• occupational therapy
• overlap analysis
• OT SEARCH
• ProQuest databases

The author wishes to thank the professional staff of the Occupational Therapy Program at Grand Valley State University for their assistance in selecting journal titles, and the student staff of the Frey Foundation Learning Center for their help in gathering data.

Notes

∗ Journals and newsletters indexed in OT SEARCH. American Occupational Therapy Foundation. Available: <http//www.aotf.org/html/indexed.shml>. Accessed: November 6, 2007.

# 120 most-cited journals supporting occupational therapy¹

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Judy Schroeder

Judy Schroeder, MSLS ([email protected]), is Health Sciences Librarian, Frey Foundation Learning Center, Grand Valley State University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, 301 Michigan Street NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49321.