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Dental Hygiene Resources: DHY207: Gen. & Oral Pathology

A brief guide to information sources for students in dental hygiene.

General Health Databases

Health Reference Center Academic This link opens in a new window
Contains overviews and definitions for health-related topics, including: conditions and diseases, mental health, health and wellness, and body systems.

Medline Plus
Maintained by the National Library of Medicine for consumer information about health and medicine.
Mayo Clinic
comprehensive guide to hundreds of diseases and illnesses
PubMed
Indexes over 4,800 journals from all over the world, in medicine, nursing, allied health, veterinary medicine and related fields. Abstracts are usually provided. MEDLINE is the largest PubMed database. (1950's to present)

CINAHL Ultimate
Scholarly journals in nursing and allied health fields.

Databases for Journal Articles

CINAHL Ultimate
(1982 - present) Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Indexes over 1800 journals, mostly in English, and dissertations, books and audiovisual materials. Click on "CHOOSE DATABASES" link above search box. Check both CINAHL and ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER to expand search results.

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary full text database. This scholarly collection offers information in: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. The majority of full text titles are available in PDF, or scanned-in-color. **

ProQuest Research Library
General database good for all subjects. Find newspaper, magazine and scholarly journal articles.

PubMed
(1950s-present) Indexes over 4,800 journals from all over the world, in medicine, nursing, allied health, veterinary medicine and related fields. Abstracts are usually provided. MEDLINE is the largest PubMed database.
Science Direct
Index and full text database. Covers 24 fields of science, medicine, technology and the social sciences, including psychology. **

Google Scholar

Google Scholar
Try Google's special search engine for scholarly articles. Link to Bergen's library in Settings to get full text of articles in Bergen databases. Some free articles are available outside of Bergen's databases. Use the cite feature to generate the APA citation.

Specific Journals

American Journal of Clinical Pathology
Free access to select articles.
American Journal of Physiology
Free access to articles from 1997 to 12 months ago.