Abstract
Due to the increasing pressure on occupational therapists to become more research orientated, there is a need for students and clinicians to be more aware of information resources open to them. This article identifies the main written resources available to therapists in the United Kingdom and suggests practical ways of utilising them. Material covered includes books, journals, information packages, and indexing and abstracting sources.
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