Clinical Rehabilitation & Mental Health Counseling Resources: Databases

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Student Welcome Resources (8-13-23)
Welcome! Download this 1-page brochure for links to the most critical resources for Clinical Rehabilitation & Mental Health Counseling students new to UNC.

Welcome

Welcome & Orientation to HSL for Dept. of Health Sciences Students (narrated .pptx via Panopto for UNC affiliates)
Introduction to some key resources available to you at HSL. How to contact the library for help, how to access research databases and guides, where to search for resources using the HSL website
• All of our online library resources can be accessed remotely with your ONYEN and password, no matter where you are located.

Welcome & Orientation to HSL slide narrations as Word .doc (2022)
These are the slide notes for the narrated PowerPoint slides making up the Panopto Welcome & Intro to the Health Sciences Library Video. The Panopto video version also contains live captioning.
Welcome & Orientation to HSL .pptx slides as .pdf (2022)
with speaker notes

NEW! Additional videos covering the following topics:

Catalog Searching
Using Databases
Article Searching (including how to use Interlibrary Loan - free to you - to get articles we do not own)
Advanced Searching Tips including
- Boolean Searching with AND, OR, NOT
- Using PubMed's MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) as an example of controlled vocabulary searching
- Advanced Searching in PubMed

Major Medical & Interdisciplinary Resources

Academic Search Premier
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Indexing, 1975-present; Full-text, 1975-present
Articles Plus
Index to hundreds of millions electronic resources, including journal and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and media in campus library collections.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1982-present
Cochrane Library
Leading source for full-text systematic reviews in health care. Searches a collection of databases that includes the CDSR, CENTRAL, Clinical Answers, and selected reviews from Epistemonikos. RCTs are from Medline, Embase, ClinicalTrials.gov, the WHO ICTRP, CINAHL (since 2020) and more. Click on "Search Limits" or the Browse tab to select content from a specific database.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

Embase

Google Scholar
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
PubMed
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1957-present
Scopus
Includes scientific, technical, medical, social science, arts & humanities disciplines. Like Web of Science, Scopus allows researchers to perform citation searches to see times cited and by whom, for 1996 - present.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Indexes US dissertations from 1861, with Full Text from 1997; elected masters theses. Tests & Measures developed as part of dissertations can often be found in appendices.

In addition, the Full Text of most UNC theses and dissertations from 2006 are freely available electronically from the UNC Library: .Dissertations | Theses
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1861 to present

Core Psychology & Rehabilitation Databases

International Rehabilitation Research Collection (formerly CIRRIE) from NARIC
Over 125,000 citations of international rehabilitation research published since 1990. See, also, REHABDATA (NARIC).
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

Core Streaming Media Collections
Includes Counseling and Therapy in Video (Volumes I, II, III), and Rehabilitation Therapy in Video.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

PILOTS (now PTSDpubs)
By the US Dept of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. The database provides citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other psychological effects of trauma. Coverage: 1871 - current

PsycARTICLES
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1980s - Present

PsycBITE (Psychological Database for Brain ImpairmentTreatment Efficacy)

PsychiatryOnline
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
PsycInfo
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1887 - Present
PsycTESTS
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1910-Present
PTSDpubs
Formerly PILOTS database, produced by the US Dept of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. The database provides citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other psychological effects of trauma. Coverage: 1871 - current
Access: No restrictions.

SAMHSA (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration) Publications & Digital Products
Find and download free publications, apps, and other resources on treatment, prevention, and recovery for mental and substance use disorders.

REHABDATA from NARIC
Access: No restrictions.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
Includes physical therapy, occupational therapy, and other rehabilitation-related disciplines;sports medicine, exercise science, sports, fitness; and more.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1985 to present for full text; other indexing back to 1800

Test Compilations & Search Tools
Link to Test Compilations & Search Tools

Related Social Science Databases

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1987 - Current
ERIC
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1966-present
JSTOR
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies. Excludes most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.
Social Services Abstracts
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

Coverage: 1980-Present
Social Work Abstracts
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1977-Present
Sociological Abstracts
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1963-present

Other Useful Guides

Allied Health Sciences
Health Literacy
Psychiatry Information Resources
UNC-subscribed resources for psychiatry practice, education, and research.
Psychology & Neuroscience Resources (Davis)
Databases
Psychology Subject Specialist Librarian, Jordan Green, and Psychology and Neuroscience Guides.
Test Instruments and Measures (HSL Guide)
Tests and Measures (Main Campus Guide)

Learn How to Use Library Databases

Database Tips Guide
Learn how to search effectively for citations and links to the full text of articles using library databases such as PubMed.

A to Z Databases

All campus databases

browse by title
browse by subject
search by database name

Full Text Articles via Find@UNC

Find Full Text of an Article via Find@UNC
How to get the full text of an article
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Always connect to databases from UNC-CH Library pages so you will see the Find @ UNC button.
For PubMed, click on individual result or select abstract display option.

Aids for Organizing Your Search

Use this guide to help visualize and plan your search:

From Purdue Libraries Creating a Search Strategy Guide: Constructing a Search Statement Worksheet (.pdf download).

Use this log to keep your search organized and to document your search strategy for reporting:

Barbara Renner's Database Search Log Sheet

Disability Search Tips and Resources - Nancy Schaefer (2015)

Nancy Schaefer (2015) Disability Search Tips and Resources, Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 34:1, 60-74, DOI: 10.1080/02763869.2015.986792

For UNC Chapel Hill Users FIND@UNC link for Full Text.

Access Information

On Campus Access: Electronic resources are accessible on-campus. Faculty, students and staff must register personal laptops and mobile devices with UNC-Chapel Hill ITS.

UNC Hospitals Access: Always use links from Library websites. Onyen log-in is required when you first select the resource. Note: UpToDate is available within EPIC.

Off Campus Access: Always use links from Library websites. Onyen log-in is required when you first select the resource. Most electronic resources are accessible off-campus to students, faculty, and staff, including UNC Hospitals' staff.

Learn about off-campus access IDs.

Report an off-campus access or hospital access problem.

Maps for finding Libraries

Davis Library
Library Data Services/Odum Institute has statistical, data, GIS expertise.
Health Sciences Library
House Undergraduate Library
contains Design Lab, Media & Design Center, IT Response Center