Department of Allied Health
Departmental Research Guide

This research guide relays some basic information on library and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library of Congress Subject Divisions)

Books on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.

2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

• Health Source: Consumer Edition: This database provides health information for the health care consumer (layman). A full-text database available via EBSCOhost.
• Highwire (includes MEDLINE): Provides indexing and abstracting for 342 journals in a variety of disciplines.
• MEDLINEplus: Consumer health information provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Also available in Spanish.
• Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hard copy, plus a large selection of articles in full text.
• ArticleFirst: This all-subject FirstSearch-based database indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hard copy.

• Index to Dental Literature: This database is devoted to the field of dentistry. Contained entirely within MEDLINE.
• MEDLINE: This EBSCOhost-based database provides abstracting of the primary research literature. Contains the Index to Dental Literature.
• CINAHL: This database is devoted to the fields of nursing and allied health. Indexing only; no articles in the full text. Available via EBSCOhost.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: This database provides health information for the health care professional. A full-text database available via EBSCOhost.
• BIOSIS Previews: This abstracting service combines Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, and Meetings) to provide global coverage of the life sciences and biomedical sciences literature.
• AIDSearch: Updated montly, AIDSearch is a combination of three database files providing information about HIV/AIDS and related topics from 1980 to the present.
• Clinical Pharmacology: Clinical Pharmacology provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new and investigational drugs.
• Combined Health Information Database: A bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources, many of which are not indexed elsewhere. New records are added quarterly and some older records are retained for archival purposes.
• Hospital & Health Administration Index: Contained in its entirety within MEDLINE, as are International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
• MDXHealth: A consumer health database. Available via FirstSearch if you are faculty, staff, or a graduate student at WKU. Call the Reference Center at x6125 for Authorization and Password.
• ArticleFirst: As described above.
• MarciveWeb DOCS: WWW-based service that indexes monographic series by the U.S. Government, including those on various health-related subjects.
• Science Citation Index with Abstracts: WKUNET networked CD-ROM, covering 1998-2001.
• Science Citation Index: paper index covering 1961-1997. Located in Reference, Q1 .A1 S3x (ref.per.ind.).
  

Special resource:  TDNet Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries' electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles; includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]

• Dental Abstracts: A selection of world dental literature. Call number: REF RK1 .A5416.For abstracts after 2001, see MEDLINE, which contains the Index to Dental Literature in its entirety.
• Handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc.: available in Helm Reference, mainly in the R through RZ parts of the collection.
• Eighteenth-20th century printed works in the Kentucky Building relating to medicine and dentistry.

WKU Department of Allied Health http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/chhs/ah/

5. Related Professional Societies (for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)

• American Dental Hygienists' Association http://www.adha.org/
• American Dental Association http://www.ada.org/
• American Dental Education Association http://www.adea.org/
• American Association of Endodontists http://www.aae.org/
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (formerly HCFA) http://cms.hhs.gov/
• International Federation of Dental Hygienists http://www.ifdh.org
• Kentucky Dental Hygienists' Association http://www.kydha.org/index.html
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm
• National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/

6. Web Sites Recommended by Department of Allied Health Faculty

• ADHA: Education & Careers http://www.adha.org/careerinfo/
• DentalCare Partners (DCP) http://www.dcpartners.com/
• DentalJobs.net/ http://www.dentaljobs.net/
• DHNet (online library) http://www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/dhnet/
• DPS, Inc. http://www.dpsjobs.com/
• Dentalink.net http://www.dentalink.net/
• Dental Power http://www.dentalpower.com/
• eDentaljobs.com http://www.eDentalJobs.com/eDentalJobs/
• Hygiene Basics http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/article.asp?PageType=article&ID=1481
• Oral Hygiene http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/article.asp?PageType=article&ID=1493
• The Oral Cancer Foundation http://www.oralcancer.org/
• PubMed Tutorial http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
• RDHJobs http://www.rdhjobs.com/
• U.S. Dental Hygiene Programs http://www.adha.org/careerinfo/dir_education.htm

• FaststatsAtoZ http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/
• Health Statistics http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/internet

University Libraries Liaison: Carol Watwood (x53912 / carol.watwood@wku.edu) last updated 3/02/2007
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