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E-Journals

Browse E-Journals related to Dentistry.

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Databases

For a complete listing of available databases please visit the Library's Electronic Resources page.

DynaMed
DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services. Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.

EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost includes indexed and abstracted titles and thousands of full-text titles, including peer-reviewed journals. This collection includes embedded images and provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study including; biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies.

MD Consult
MD Consult Core Service helps answer clinical questions and stay abreast of recent developments by integrating medical reference books, medical journals and clinics, MEDLINE comprehensive drug information, peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines, customizable patient education handouts, and daily personalized clinical updates.

PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides free access to millions of citations in Medline, PreMedline, and other related databases. When searching for articles on Dentistry, use these Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms to narrow your results:
  • Dentistry
  • Oral Health
  • Oral Surgical Procedures
  • Orthodontics
  • Periodontics
  • Pathology, Oral
  • Surgery, Oral
  • Dental Care
  • Technology, Dental
  • Tooth Preparation
  • Endodontics

You may also use the "Dental Journals" Subset under the Limits tab to further narrow your search results.

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a single source for scientific, technical, and medical information on the Internet. Researchers can access journal titles and full-text articles and search the abstract and indexing databases.

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Web Sites

Online resources:

Directory of Open Access Journals in Dentistry
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. They define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access" they take the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory.

Karolinska Dentistry and Oral Health Images
Through research, education and information, Karolinska Institutet, a leading European medical university, contributes to improving human health. Each year, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This page contains links to other pages and sites on the Internet offering biomedically related multimedia material, mostly images (photos, illustrations, etc.). Occasionally, the material may be downloaded and used free of charge. Normally, however, the material is strictly copyrighted, and may be used only after first having obtained explicit permission by the rightful owner.

Martindale's Virtual Dental Center
Provides links to dental atlases, courses, textbooks, teaching modules, procedures, cases, videos/movies, and audio/sound.

Oral Pathology Image Database
The goal of this atlas is to show multiple examples of important lesions of the oral cavity.

Pediatric Dentistry Clinical Photos
Collection of images from Creighton University Medical Center class lectures.

Professional Associations and Organizations:

Academy of General Dentistry
The AGD's Core Purpose is to advance the value and excellence of general dentistry. The AGD's goal is to be the premiere, worldwide organization of choice for all members of the general dentistry community, working together to ensure optimal oral health.

American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry
This is a unique organization comprised of distinguished individuals from virtually every facet of the dental profession. Their members are educators who share a common interest in esthetics and excellence in the quality of patient care. This diverse, multidisciplinary group meets once each year to share ideas and learn from one another.

American Academy of the History of Dentistry
The American Academy of the History of Dentistry is a distinguished group of enthusiastic individuals representing nearly every state and many foreign countries. AAHD is a unique organization founded in 1951 to stimulate interest, study and research in the little known record of the dental profession.

American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
The AAPD is the membership organization representing the specialty of pediatric dentistry. Their 7,000 members serve as primary care providers for millions of children from infancy through adolescence.

American Academy of Periodontology
The American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) is an 8,000-member association of dental professionals specializing in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the gums and supporting structures of the teeth and in the placement and maintenance of dental implants. The current membership includes periodontists and general dentists from all 50 states as well as around the world.

American Association for Functional Orthodontics
The AAFO is an independent organization, serving its members with the most up-to-date and thorough information and support available worldwide on the subject of functional appliance therapy. The mission of the AAFO is to provide continuing education to general dentists, orthodontists and pediatric dentists with interests in functional appliance therapy so that they are able to treat patients with functional solutions that revolutionize orthodontic care.

American Association of Endodontists
The AAE Foundation exists to perpetuate excellence for the specialty of endodontics and its practitioners. It works to ensure the specialty's place at the forefront of the dental health arena through support to research and education.

American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons is a not-for-profit professional association serving the surgical arm of dentistry.

American Association of Orthodontists
On this site, you can learn about orthodontists--specialists in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of dental and facial irregularities. The correction of tooth and jaw alignment results in a healthy, attractive smile that's good for life.

American Dental Association
The American Dental Association was established in 1859. Today, they have more than 155,000 dentists as members. As the world's largest and oldest national dental association, they are the oral health authority committed to both the public and dental health profession.

American Student Dental Association
The American Student Dental Association is a national student-run organization that protects and advances the rights, interests, and welfare of students pursuing careers in dentistry. It introduces students to lifelong involvement in organized dentistry and provides services, information, education, representation and advocacy.

FDI World Dental Federation
In the Federation section of the website we focus on the FDI's role as the independent, worldwide voice of dentistry as well as promoting the interests of their Members and their associations.

National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research
The mission of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) is to improve oral, dental and craniofacial health through research, research training, and the dissemination of health information.

Student National Dental Association
Since its inception in the early 1970's, the SNDA has established itself as a leading student organization in a variety of areas. These include addressing the global oral health needs of the underserved and educating its members concerning the social, moral, and ethical obligations of the dental profession.

Maintained by Ruth Anderson, MLIS
Last Updated:08/21/2008