LibGuides: Databases by Subject: Dental Education

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Dental Education Resources

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Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

Included databases: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment Database, and NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
Dental Abstracts
Only available in print. Current copies available at the Circulation desk. Dental Abstracts keeps dentists informed of developments and advances in general dentistry and its specialties. Graphs, tables, and figures from original articles are also included.
MEDLINE with Full Text
MEDLINE with Full Text provides the authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences found on MEDLINE, plus the database provides full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE.
Nursing & Allied Health
Formerly CINAHL Complete. Nursing & Allied Health provides comprehensive and multi-media coverage of the fields or nursing and allied health, as well as alternative and complementary medicine.
Research and learning information is presented from leading scholary and trade journals, books, full-length training videos, reports, pamphlets and ephemeral works, and websites.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free digital database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences.

Academic Search Complete
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 10,506 journals, including full text for 3,229 non-open access peer-reviewed titles.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Access Medicine
AccessMedicine® provides access to more than 65 medical titles in medicine, with images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic and point-of-care tools and more.
AccessMedicine® provides access to more than 65 medical titles in medicine, with images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic and point-of-care tools and more.
Commission on Dental Competency Assessments (CDCA)
The Commission on Dental Competency Assessments (CDCA) was founded in 1969 to facilitate the licensure process for candidates and eliminate the need for repetition of state board clinical examinations. The CDCA is a nonprofit, independent corporation, comprised of a consortium of 26 state and international dental boards. The CDCA administers the ADEX dental and dental hygiene examination and also develops, administers, scores, and reports the results of its own examinations.
Consumer Product Information Database
This database links over 23,000 consumer brands to health effects, and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients. Includes safety information.
Credo Academic Core
Formerly Credo General Reference. Credo Reference is an online,cross searchable, full text suite of of encyclopedias, dictionaries, guides, companions, atlases, chronologies, Who's whos, and other reference resources.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
New name: Gale eBooks. Virtual Reference Library electronically provides complete encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs and more in many areas of study. Categories include arts, biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.
Virtual Reference Library electronically provides complete encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs and more in many areas of study.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
This database provides a collection of consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
This database provides a collection of consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines as well as the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Journals@Ovid Full Text
This database is an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. Contains subscriptions through the IUPUI Medical Library.
Ovid Medical Databases
A collection of medical databases for articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals. Provided through the IUPUI Medical Library.

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology serves as a forum for information in community dentistry. The scope is broad, ranging from original studies in epidemiology to behavioral sciences related to dentistry, and health services research.
Dental Abstracts
Only available in print. Current copies available at the Circulation desk. Dental Abstracts keeps dentists informed of developments and advances in general dentistry and its specialties. Graphs, tables, and figures from original articles are also included.
Journal of Dental Education
The Journal of Dental Education (JDE) is a peer-reviewed monthly journal that publishes a wide variety of educational and scientific research in dental education. The JDE is one of the top scholarly journals publishing work in oral health education today.
Journal of Dental Hygiene
Journal of Dental Hygiene is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focused on scientific research for dental hygienists.
Journal of Dentistry for Children
The Journal of Dentistry for Children (JDC) is an internationally renowned journal whose publishing dates back to 1934. JDC promotes the practice, education and research specifically related to the specialty of pediatric dentistry.
Journal of Periodontology
Established in 1930 as the official publication of the Amer Academy of Periodontology, the Journal of Periodontology (JOP) publishes original papers to support the practice, education, and research in the dental specialty of periodontics.
Journal of Public Health Dentistry
The Journal of Public Health Dentistry is devoted to the advancement of public health dentistry through the exploration of related research, practice, and policy developments.
Journal of the American Dental Association
Introduced in 1913, the monthly The Journal of the American Dental Association is the nation's premier dental journal - a reliable, peer-reviewed source of information on dentistry and dental science.

Although the library has a wide selection of books and other content useful for dental education, we have created a special list of recent purchases for the field which we have added to our collection.

Dental Education Books (IUCAT)

Recent Book Purchases

Although the library has a wide selection of books and other content useful for dental education, we have created a special list of important recent books for the field which we have added to our collection.

Dental Education Books (IUCAT)

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