LibGuides: Dentistry Guide: Getting Started

Library services

Your librarians

Stephen Anderson
Senior Liaison Librarian
Division of Tropical Health and Medicine
Ground floor Eddie Koiki Mabo Library
Townsville
Phone: (07) 4781 6997
Make an appointment with Stephen
Janet Catterall
Liaison Librarian
Ground floor Library building
Cairns
(07) 4232 1544

Make an appointment with Janet
Scott Dale
Liaison Librarian (Acting)
Ground floor Library building
Cairns
(07) 4232 1034
Make an appointment with Scott

Online dental training video collection

Alexander Street Press Dental Education in Video
Dental Education in Video is a video encyclopedia of dentistry and dental technique, delivering instant online access to hundreds of high-definition videos featuring world-renowned clinicians and educators. It provides hundreds of hours of demonstrations from American Dental Association-approved content partners, together with interviews and lectures, for students and faculty in dental surgery, medicine, oral hygiene, assisting, and nursing.

Introduction to AMA Vancouver interactive tutorial

Introduction to AMA Vancouver interactive tutorial
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• A short, interactive tutorial introducing AMA (Vancouver) referencing (5 mins).
• In-text citations vs reference lists.
• 3 interactive activities to create a reference for a book, a journal article and a web page.
• A very short quiz.
• Where to get more help.

Key databases for Dentistry

There are some really good databases available for finding information in Dentistry. We would recommend getting started with the following:

MEDLINE (Ovid)
MEDLINE ® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities,

Available to James Cook University users only.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources.
Medline (Pubmed)
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine journal citation database providing over 22 million references to biomedical and life sciences journal articles dating back to 1946. It is a subset of the PubMed database which is freely available.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides citation indexes spanning every discipline.

Available to James Cook University users only.
CINAHL
The authoritative abstract and index service (A&I) for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. Limited full text is available.

Available to James Cook University users only.

Limited to twenty concurrent users.
Informit Health Databases
All Informit health databases.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Anatomy.tv
Medically accurate and detailed 3D rendering of human anatomy based on imaging data. Includes anatomy, physiology, clinical content and therapies.

Available to James Cook University users only.
eTG complete
Peer-reviewed clinical therapeutic guidelines covering a range of topics. Includes drug information, patient information and calculators.

Available to James Cook University users only.

Searching basics part 1
Learn about the Six Steps of Searching, keywords, synonyms, and developing search strategies.
Searching basics part 2
Look at how to use the Six Steps of Search in a real life search.

Web of Science
Tutorial provided by Web of Science
PubMed Tutorial
Tutorial provided by PubMed

Searching MEDLINE with MESH - Interactive tutorial

Searching MEDLINE using MeSH
What is MeSH?
Accessing MEDLINE
Finding MeSH terms in MEDLINE
Searching with MeSH
(10 mins)