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.

Dental hygiene: RK.

See: Dental acid etching RK652.7 ------- Dental adhesives RK652.7 ------- Dental amalgams RK519.A4 ------- Dental anthropology GN209 ------- Dental auxiliary personnel RK60.5 ------- Dental auxiliary personnel--Training of RK79 ------- Dental bonding RK652.7 ------- Dental calculus RK328 ------- Dental cavity preparation RK515 ------- Dental cements RK652.7 ------- Dental ceramic metals RK653.5 ------- Dental ceramics RK655 ------- Dental chemistry RK290 ------- Dental clinics RK3-RK3.5 ------- Dental deposits RK328 ------- Dental drilling RK515 ------- Dental ethics RK52.7 ------- Dental glass isomer cements RK652.8.G55 ------- Dental health education RK60.8 ------- Dental health maintenance organizations RK59.3D ------- Dental implants RK667.I45 ------- Dental implants industry HD9995.D4-HD9995.D44 ------- Dental impressions RK658 ------- Dental instruments and apparatus RK681-RK686 ------- Dental instruments and apparatus industry HD9995.D4-HD9995.D44 ------- Dental jurisprudence RA1062 ------- Dental libraries Z675.D3 ------- Dental literature RK28.7 ------- Dental materials RK652.5 ------- Dental matrices RK515 ------- Dental metallurgy RK653 ------- Dental offices RK3-RK3.7 ------- Dental personnel--Supply and demand RK58-RK58.7 ------- Dental pharmacology RK701 ------- Dental pins RK667.P5 ------- Dental plaque RK328 ------- Dental prophylaxis RK60.7 ------- Dental public health RK52-RK52.45 ------- Dental resins RK652.5 ------- Dental specialties RK59.3S65 ------- Dental surveys RK52-RK52.4 ------- Dental technology RK652 ------- Dental therapeutics RK318-RK320 ------- various bibliographic subjects (Z).

See also these additional Library of Congress Subject Headings: Dentistry RK; Dentists RK.

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

The following services are recommended for courses for first-year students and nonmajors:

• 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.
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.

The following services are recommended for use by advanced students and researchers:

• ArticleFirst: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• 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 Full Text: This database indexes articles in nursing and allied health, and contains selected full text. 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.
• 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]

3. Monographic and Other Materials in the Helm Library and Kentucky Building

The following are recommended for use:

• 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. 4. Department of Allied Health

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

Dental Hygiene

• 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

Statistics

• 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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