Resource Guides: Dental Health: Find Articles

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Quick Dental Article Search

What are Indexes & Databases?

When librarians talk about indexes and databases, we usually mean tools that help you find articles.

A periodical index is a list of articles from journals and magazines. People use them to find articles listed by author(s), title, or subject(s) of the articles.

Sometimes these indexes are called periodical databases when they're online, especially when they carry the full text of some or all of the articles that they list.

You can find a list of all UMA's indexes and databases in the A-Z list: UMA Databases A-Z

Indexes & Databases

You can use any of the databases below to find scholarly journal articles in health, including dental health.

Academic OneFile with InfoTrac Collections This link opens in a new window
The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. Gale's InterLink technology intelligently connects contextually-relevant results from your library's eBook collection on GVRL within articles in a user's search results. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A "big bucket" of articles from scholarly, popular, and trade journals. A good place to find an article on marketing of Zylitol, but a bad place to find an in-depth study in a dental medical journal.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A Nursing and Allied Health database with some oral health content.
Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source This link opens in a new window
A great place to find scholarly journals and trade journals directed at dental health professionals.
FSTA: Food Science & Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index to over 1400 journals as well as standards, conference proceedings, theses, patents, and books in subject areas including food chemistry and microbiology, food product development, food safety, and nutrition. Updated weekly.
Health & Wellness Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Health And Wellness Resource Center With Alternative Health Module, Gale's comprehensive consumer health resource, provides accurate, authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative and complementary medical practices. Designed for researchers at all levels, its intuitive interface provides multiple pathways to information. New periodical and newspaper articles are added daily.
Health Reference Center Academic This link opens in a new window
Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals, Health Reference Center Academic is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. With more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Health Reference Center Academic ensures that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health-related questions.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database that indexes medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,600 biomedical journals.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed is a major medical database. It provides access to bibliographic/abstracting information from MEDLINE, plus out-of-scope citations from certain MEDLINE journals; citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing; and some additional life science journals that submit full-text and receive a qualitative review by NLM. Included are links to many sites with full-text articles.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
This 1800-journal database includes 23 dental journals, including Dental Abstracts, Journal of Dentistry, and Journal of Evidence-Based Dentistry.

Google Scholar
This is a free resource with access to academic writing, but the links usually do not bring you to full articles or books Your best bet is to make note of the resources you found worthwhile and then go to search to find which are available at UMA Libraries.

Accessing the Library Online from Home

To access library resources from home you will need to login, or authenticate, into the library system. The library is required to verify that you are a student, faculty, or staff member with your login. You may either login using your maine.edu username and password, OR with your last name and library card number.

Maine.edu Login: Your maine.edu information is the same username and password you use to access the UMA portal, Brightspace/Brightspace, MaineStreet, and other University resources.

URSUS Library Login: Library card/student ID/barcode numbers must be current and activated with the library in order for this option to work.

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