Dentistry Guide: Getting Started
Find targeted resources for research and referencing
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Library services
Your librarians
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Janet CatterallLiaison Librarian
Ground floor Library building
Cairns
(07) 4232 1544
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Stephen AndersonSenior Liaison Librarian
Division of Tropical Health and Medicine
Ground floor Eddie Koiki Mabo Library
Townsville
Phone: (07) 4781 6997
Make an appointment with Stephen
Online dental training video collection
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Alexander Street Press Dental Education in VideoDental 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
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Introduction to AMA Vancouver interactive tutorial
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Key databases for Dentistry
There are some really good databases available for finding information in Dentistry. We would recommend getting started with the following:
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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.
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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, -
Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources.
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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.
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CINAHL CompleteThe authoritative abstract and index service (A&I) for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. It includes full-text journals, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, research instruments and clinical trials.
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Cochrane LibraryThe Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to help people make well-informed decisions about healthcare and health policy, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.
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Anatomy.tvMedically accurate and detailed 3D rendering of human anatomy based on imaging data. Includes anatomy, physiology, clinical content and therapies.
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eTG completePeer-reviewed clinical therapeutic guidelines covering a range of topics. Includes drug information, patient information and calculators.
Video Tutorials for Finding Articles
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Searching basics part 1
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Searching basics part 2
Look at how to use the Six Steps of Search in a real life search.
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Web of ScienceTutorial provided by Web of Science
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PubMed TutorialTutorial provided by PubMed
Searching MEDLINE with MESH - Interactive tutorial
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Searching MEDLINE using MeSH
What is MeSH?
Accessing MEDLINE
Finding MeSH terms in MEDLINE
Searching with MeSH
(10 mins)
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