Research Guides: DEN126 Dental Hygiene II: Articles & Professional Sites

Search Tips

General Tips

Use quotation marks around phrases, e.g. "cystic fibrosis" (except in PubMed)
Use an asterisk to truncate search words, e.g., dent* = dental, dentist, dentistry, etc.
Use AND to connect keywords and phrases, e.g., "dental care" AND "cystic fibrosis"
Use terms spelled out as well as abbreviations, e.g., "cystic fibrosis" OR cf
Use synonyms to see if you get different results, e.g. elderly, geriatric, old, senior, aged, etc.

CINAHL

Use Advanced Search
Limit by Age Groups and/or Special Interest (Dental Care)

ProQuest

Limit to scholarly journals and/or peer-reviewed
Use advanced search to narrow your search; change Anywhere to Document-TI to see if there is an article title on your topic, or limit by Age Group

PsycINFO

Use the Advanced Search option
Limit by Age Group or Methodology

PubMed

Once you do a search, click on Show additional filters
Check the box next to Age and/or Language, then click Show
- Limit to age and/or language
Add dentistry[mh] to the search box followed by AND plus your search terms to limit results to nursing articles, e.g., dentistry[mh] AND early caries
Do not use quotation marks

Search for Articles

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan
Can't find the article or the book you want? Use Tipasa, our interlibrary loan system, to request what you need from another library. Tipasa is incorporated into many of our databases. Look for the button or words Request It from Interlibrary Loan to request a copy of the article or book from another library. This service is free of charge for students.

Professional Sites

Scholarly / Peer-Reviewed Journals

Not all scholarly journals are peer-reviewed

Scholarly and peer-reviewed (or refereed) journals publish articles written by experts in that field for an audience of other experts and researchers. The difference between the two is that peer-reviewed/refereed journals review/critique the content of the articles using a panel/board of peers in that field before the article is accepted for publication. Most publications that are considered refereed will state so inside of their publication (usually on the table of contents page), on their website (look for a link to "about us"), and in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (see the "title" section of volume 4, which is located behind the Reference Desk, and then look for the arrow symbol next to the title). Some of the library's databases allow you to limit your searches to scholarly articles and/or peer-reviewed articles, however...

Not everything published in a peer-reviewed journal is peer-reviewed

Things like Letters to the Editor, Book Reviews, Commentary, News, items signed by anonymous, some or all of which may be found in an issue of a peer-reviewed journal, do not go through the peer-review process. Most of our databases have tools that allow you to refine your search to exclude this type of content from your list of results.

For a more extensive list of characteristics, as well as directions for how to tell if a journal is peer-reviewed, see the following guide:

Periodicals Research Guide