How to Find Art Therapy in a Research Database or Index

Find Art Therapy using one or all of the following search tools:

1. Online library catalogs are used to search for art therapy books, texts, periodicals, videos, governmental documents and research journals. Many libraries are linked to state, regional, and academic library systems with millions of entries. Fully searchable access to Art Therapy is available through your library's subscription.


2. Online research databases are powerful tools that can be accessed for free through your university or public library catalog. Whether you can have full text or abstracts-only access depends upon the library's agreement with the database. Search for Art Therapy and other scholarly research journals in the following high quality databases and indexes:
   • PsycINFO
   • CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health
   • ERIC (Resources in Education)
   • EbscoHost
   • Art Bibliographies Modern Current Titles


3. Other online databases that available free to the public over the Internet:
   • PubMed http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
   • ERIC: www.eric.ed.gov
   • GoogleScholar http://scholar.google.com


4. Search Art Therapy's database directly here or, if you are a member of the American Art Therapy Association, through the member-only portal of the AATA website for free access: www.americanarttherapyassociation.org


5. A search on Wikipedia or Google will turn up many entries and is one strategy for becoming familiar with keywords and access-controlled publisher websites of articles. But most web content is not selective; anyone can put anything on the Internet. Most researchers use high quality library-accessed research databases to save time and to find the studies they are looking for.

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