Welcome to your Occupational Therapy Resource Guide
This guide contains information provided by your librarians to help you with your studies and support your research.
Read through the outlines below to learn what is covered in each section of this guide. You can navigate to each of these sections via the menu on the left.
Search Strategies and Tips: Guides you through the step-by-step process of finding academic articles.
Databases and Journals: Provides links to relevant databases to begin your search.
Books and eBooks: Contains links to relevant textbooks and ways to use eBooks.
Grey literature and Google: Contains links to relevant webpages, sources for statistics, and tips for efficiently searching Google.
Guidelines and procedures: Links and tips for finding guidelines and procedures for occupational therapists.
Online video and image collections: Provides links to video and multimedia collections you can use in your studies.
Referencing
It is important that you acknowledge all the sources you use in your writing so that you:
- show your assessor how widely you have read
- provide evidence to support and strengthen your arguments and statements
- demonstrate academic integrity
- enable the reader to locate the sources referred and credit the original author(s) for their work.
Refer to the Deakin Guide to Referencing and select the correct style for your unit. If you are unsure, check with your unit chair. For specific referencing questions, you can also contact Deakin Study Support as they maintain and update the Deakin Guide to Referencing.