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Library Basics

  • Search the Catalog or Summit for books/videos.

     

     

  • Search the Databases for articles. (Click here to set up your own personal password or PIN for off-campus access.)

     

     

  • Having trouble locating the full text of a particular article? Look here to see if EWU carries the journal in which your article appears.

     

     

  • Request an Interlibrary Loan via ILLiad when the article you need is not available locally or online. (Click here to set up your ILLiad account first.) [Riverpoint students only; non-Riverpoint students, see below.]

     

     

  • Use RefWorks to collect, organize, and format your research references - makes APA and other citation styles a snap.

     

     

     

Basic Tools for Searching Bibliographic Databases

  • Boolean Operators

    These are the connecting terms -- and, or and not -- that allow you to arrange your search terms with logic and precision.  Use and to narrow your search, or to broaden your search, and not to exclude irrelevant records from your search.  Click here for a tutorial on Boolean Operators.

     

     

  • Nesting

    Nesting is an extension of Boolean logic.  You must always remember to "nest" or group synonymous or related terms linked by the or operator.  Normally you use parantheses to nest such terms; alternatively some databases allow you to simply type the terms you want to nest together -- joined by the or operator -- in the same search box.  Click here for a further explanation. 

     

     

  • Phrase Searching

    Most databases require that you enclose a phrase in quotation marks if you want to search on it as a phrase.  Click here for more.

     

     

  • Truncation

    This is a handy way to cover multiple variations of a search term without having to type in each full-length term; you shorten your term to the first few relevant letters and then add the truncation character.  In most databases the truncation character is the asterisk (*) but in some cases it may be a question mark (?) or pound sign (#).  (Check the help section of a particular database to find out which character is used.)  Example:  adolescen* would find articles containing the terms "adolescence" or "adolescent" or "adolescents."  Click here for more. 

     

     

  • Controlled Vocabulary

    These terms are sometimes referred to as descriptors, subject headings, or subject terms.  They are standardized terms developed as part of the structure of a particular database and used to identify the content of each item in the database in a consistent way.  An actual human reviews each item going into a database and assigns the appropriate term or terms.  Controlled vocabulary offers another tool for zeroing in on those needles in the database haystack.  Click here for more.

     

     

     

Key Databases for Dental Hygiene Research

  • Medline or PubMed

    Comprehensive index to all aspects of medicine, covering over 4,800 journals, back to 1965; PubMed includes expanded biomedical coverage back to 1950.

     

     

  • CINAHL with Full Text

    Comprehensive database for nursing and allied health, with full text articles from around 325 journals and trade magazines, and indexing to over 2700 titles, back to 1981. (A few titles are indexed even earlier, back to 1937.) Also includes citations to books, dissertations, and conference proceedings.

     

 

 

  • ProQuest Health and Medical

    Full text articles from hundreds of medical and pharmaceutical journals and magazines, along with indexing from MEDLINE, the most comprehensive biomedical index.

     

     

  • Cochrane Library

    Portal to access 6 databases for evidence-based medicine. Includes: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (called Cochrane Reviews); DARE: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (Other Reviews); Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Clinical Trials); Cochrane Methodology Register (Methods Studies); Health Technology Assessment Database (Technology Assessment); and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (Economic Evaluations). Cochrane Reviews are available full text back to the mid 1990s, while others are indexes.

     

     

  • Science Direct

    Full text articles from approximately 50 scholarly journals back to 1995; includes Dental Abstracts as well as indexing of all 1800 Elsevier journals and MEDLINE.

     

     

     

     

Resources for Distance (i.e. Non-Riverpoint) Dental Hygiene Degree Completion Programs

  • EWU Libraries Distance Education Portal

    The library's guide to services and resources for students enrolled in off-campus programs.

     

     

  • Bridging the Distance 

    An outline of your off-campus options for obtaining the books and articles you need.

     

     

  • Distance Article Request Form When the full text of an article you want is not available online, use this form to request it.  The JFK Library Interlibrary Loan Department will find the article for you.  Whether the article is physically available in the library's journal collection, or we have to obtain a copy from another library, we'll post a high-resolution electronic scan of your article to our web server. When your article is ready, we'll send you an email containing a link to your article and the password you'll need to retrieve it.

     

     

  • Distance Book Request Form Free "door to door" delivery of books from the library's collection as well as from other libraries (interlibrary loan).  We pay the postage -- your item will arrive with a pre-paid return label. Best when you do not live near a Summit Library (see below), or if you simply prefer the convenience of door to door delivery.

     

     

  • Summit Libraries and "Pick Up Anywhere"

    If you live near one of the 30+ Summit Libraries in the Orbis-Cascade Alliance, you may browse for books in person or "request items" for pickup from the Summit Catalog.  Be prepared to show your EWU ID. You must also have set up your Library Account / PIN.

     

     

     

Links of Interest for Dental Hygiene Research

Stuck, stymied, baffled, or bewildered? Visit or call the Riverpoint Campus Library, or contact Jonathan Potter by email or at 509-368-6557.

 

updated 5/5/08


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