Research Guides: Dental Hygiene: Finding Articles

Recommended Databases for Research

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Contains articles from nursing, medical and allied health journals; includes Pre-CINAHL, CINAHL and CINAHL Plus with full text.

PubMed
The National Library of Medicine's interface for searching Medline. Journal articles for all areas of medicine, dentistry and nursing. Limited full text

MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Medline is a National Library of Medicine database intended for researchers in the health sciences with citations from biomedical and health science research journals.
Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
Clinical point-of-care resource. Includes full text content on diseases, disorders, diagnostics, drugs, patient education resources, and best practice guidelines. Also includes continuing education modules, legal cases, and medical news and drug updates.

Health & Medical Collection (Proquest)
Combines the clinical research titles available in ProQuest Medical Library with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFIle)
Contains the full-text of nursing and allied health journals providing reliable health information to nursing and allied health students, professionals, and researchers.
Cochrane Collection Plus
Evidence-based databases that include systematic reviews, controlled clinical trials and more. This collection helps determine the best treatment or intervention for conditions or diseases.

LexiComp Online This link opens in a new window
Provides access to nursing, allied health & pharmacology reference books; performs a drug interaction analysis; identifies unknown medications; and has customizable "patient advisory leaflets" to help ensure positive treatment outcomes. NOTE: Use Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome to access this database.

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