Library: Dental Hygiene: Find Articles

Electronic Journals

Browse these journals to familiarize yourself with current practices in dentistry.

Print Journals

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Use the link below to discover whether a journal, magazine or newspaper is available online in one of our databases.

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Research Databases

Searching for a specific topic? Use these research databases to search for articles in thousands of journals.

Electronic Journal Center
Full text of 11000+ research journals.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Index, abstracts, and full text of the literature of nursing and allied health.
MEDLINE with Full Text
A comprehensive index for medical journals and provides full text for more than 1,370 journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines, particularly nursing and allied health.
Alt HealthWatch
Index, abstracts, and full text covering complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
PubMed
PubMed indexes articles in a broad range of preclinical and clinical disciplines. It is the version of MEDLINE that the National Library of Medicine makes available for free, and contains a collection of newer articles that are not yet indexed and included in other versions of MEDLINE.

The Database Doesn't Have Full Text for My Article. Now What?

During your search, you may encounter times when the full text (PDF or HTML) of an article is not available in the database. Follow these steps to see how you may locate an electronic or print version of your article:

If PDF and HTML full text are unavailable, click in certain databases to locate print copies in Columbus State's library or electronic copies in another database, such as the Electronic Journal Center.
If you know the name of the journal in which the article appears, search the eResource Lookup to see if the journal is available online in one of the research databases.
If the article is not available at Columbus State's library or electronically through the research databases, search the OhioLINK catalog for print holdings at nearby college or university libraries.