Colegio de Terapeutas Ocupacionales de Galicia (COTOGA)
Abstract
Analysis and description of a database in occupational therapy: NARIC. NARIC –National Rehabilitation Information Center- groups in its web great amount of information on disability and occupational therapy. It is organized in three sections of which we will be centered in Researchers, divided as well in three: REHABDATA, NIDRR and Naric Knowledgebase. REHABDATA is a database that gathers summaries and bibliographical information related to the investigation in occupational therapy from 1956 to the present time. It allows six search forms: advanced, in the fields of the records, by the terms of the thesaurus, titles of magazine and publisher. The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) finances works of investigation related to disability. Through this section the references from all these works are retrieved by different interfaces. Knowledgebase is a database that contains four types of resources: organizations and services, serials, databases and directories, and internet resources. The information is divided in five sections: advanced and simple search, and three directories
