Dental Assisting
This Research Guide is available to help students in the Dental Assisting Program locate Library materials.
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Focused Database Searching
- CINAHL Plus This link opens in a new window(login from off campus) Full text articles from allied health journals, including nursing and 17 allied health disciplines.
- PubMed This link opens in a new window
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This database contains more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
- Clinical Advances in Periodontics (login from off campus)Includes Full Text Access from past 5 years.
Published by Wiley for the American Academy of Periodontology, Clinical Advances in Periodontics (CAP) is dedicated to advancing clinical management of patients by translating scientific knowledge into practical therapy. - Journal of Periodontology (login from off campus)Full Text access to past 5 years.
Established in 1930 as the official publication of the American Academy of Periodontology, the Journal of Periodontology (JOP) publishes original papers of the highest scientific quality to support practice, education, and research in the dental specialty of periodontics.
- Journal of the American Dental Association This link opens in a new windowThis journal is the nation's premier dental journal-a reliable, peer-reviewed source of information on dentistry and dental science.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
- Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowThis database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Research Database Tutorials
- CINAHL Databases - Basic Searching TutorialThis tutorial demonstrates the basic searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
- CINAHL Databases - Advanced Searching TutorialsThis tutorial demonstrates the advanced searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
The following quick, interactive PubMed tutorials from the National Library of Medicine will have you confidently searching PubMed in no time!
- PubMed: Find Articles on a TopicA brief tutorial on how to find articles on a topic using PubMed.
- PubMed: Get the full text for an articleA brief tutorial on how to get the full text for an article cited in PubMed.
- Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice TutorialWhen conducting research, evidence-based practice is a method for framing clinical questions that will help yield optimal search results. PubMed.gov is a free research tool from the National Library of Medicine®. This course will show you how to use evidence-based practice when searching clinical questions using PubMed®.
- What is in PubMed?Learn what you can find in PubMed, and how it got there.
- PubMed - Find a Systematic ReviewA systematic Review article is one that fits the criteria for Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)