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Databases

    • On Ovid's database menu, select EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database (not Cochrane Controlled Trials Register).
    • To browse systematic reviews and protocols in process
      • Click Browse Topics.
      • Scroll down to Oral Health Group.
    • To search the database, enter keywords and combine sets.
    • See Ovid's Field Guide for further details.
  • Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II
    Encyclopedia covers trends in materials science with chapters on medicinal and biomedical applications of coordination complexes, including both imaging and therapy.
  • Engineering Village
    Includes the databases Compendex and Inspec. Select both databases, which support Boolean combinations and truncation (with *), e.g.: ((fluorine or fluorid*) and water and (dental or tooth or teeth)).
  • ISI Proceedings
    Cites papers presented at conferences and other meetings.
  • Lexi-Comp Online for Dentistry
    Its drug monographs can be searched by keyword. Detailed color photographs, drawings, and radiographs are included. The full text of the following works and topics are also browsable: Dental-Office Medical Emergencies, Natural Therapeutics, Clinician’s Endodontic Handbook, Oral Soft- and Hard-Tissue Diseases, Manual of Dental Implants, Manual of Clinical Periodontics, Oral Surgery for the General Dentist, and Illustrated Handbook of Clinical Dentistry.
  • MEDLINE
    Features a limit to dental journals, indications of Tufts holdings, and links to full-text articles.
      • To limit a set of results to dental journals
        • Click on the bullseye Limit icon.
        • Scroll down to Journal Subsets, the last box on the right.
        • Select Dentistry Journals from the dropdown menu.
      • To limit to Tufts holdings or access Tufts' electronic journals
        • Click the Local Holdings box on the Main Page.
        • Click Ovid Full Text or Full Text, if possible.
      • If the red Local Holdings message indicates electronic availability and neither blue link appears after the citation
        • Click Library Holdings.
        • Click Go.
        • On the right, Click this link to open the document.
        • If the catalog screen appears, click Connect to http....
        • If the catalog doesn't appear, click Tufts Univ in your taskbar or enable pop-ups for this site.
      • To browse issues of Tufts' full-text dental journals on Ovid
        • Select Your Journals @Ovid from the database menu.
        • Click Browse Journals in the menu bar.
        • Click Browse Journals by Subject.
        • Click Journal List after Dentistry under Clinical Medicine.
      • For further details, see
    • PubMed
      • To limit to dental journals
        • Go to its Advanced Search page
        • Select Dental Journals in the Subsets box (bottom left)
        • Enter your terms and click Search.
      • Change the Display Settings to Abstract to see the blue icons for access to Tufts' holdings.
  • Kovel Library
    This collection of e-books with PDF chapters covers materials science and other technology of interest to dental researchers. It can be browsed by such categories as Adhesives, Coatings, Sealants; Ceramics & Ceramic Engineering; and Metals & Metallurgy. The Tufts Catalog indexes its many titles and provides direct, proxied links such as: Encyclopedia of Smart Materials and the Merck Index.
  • Primal Pictures for Dentistry
    This Ovid database features over a hundred 3D views of the head, neck, face, oral and nasal cavities, dentition, and individual teeth (incliding cross sections). One can rotate its models, add and remove layers, link to related text, and watch animations of functional anatomy and other video clips.
  • ReferenceUSA
    Its U.S. Healthcare lists 180,000 dentists by name, location, phone, specialty, and dental school attended.
  • Tufts Database Finder: Dentistry
    Lists databases and e-books licensed by Tufts by subject. Browse under Dentistry for specialty listings.
  • Web of Science
    Searches the scientific literature back to 1945 by keywords, authors, cited authors, and institutions.

Journals

Our subscriptions are linked from:

    • Its full-text links take one directly to the article.
    • Its red, Local Holdings messages indicate other articles available online via its Library Holdings links.
    • Limit to Local Holdings to retrieve articles available at Tufts in print or electronically.
    • For further details, please see instructions.
    • Click PubMed in the gray, horizontal bar at the top of our pages
    • See instructions for how to link to Tufts' full-text articles.
    • Enter title abbreviation, phrase in the title, or exact title.
    • Select the relevant option under Partial Words, which works for abbreviations.
    • Click Go.
    • Click the link to Ovid or another provider.
    • Enter your Tufts username and password.
  • Tufts Catalog
    • Select Journal Title and enter the MEDLINE abbreviation or the first few words of the title (drop initial articles).
    • If several titles are displayed, click a likely one.
    • A link that begins Connect to http appears at the top of records for Tufts' e-journals.
    • If prompted, enter your Tufts username and password.

E-Journals

  • Anatomical Imaging Sites
    Tufts Dept. of Anatomy & Cellular Biology
  • Anatomy of the Head & Neck
    Designed by former TUSDM students for a course in gross anatomy
  • SPIRAL: Dental Health
    Provides PDFs and links to websites for patient handouts in Asian languages and their English versions.
  • TUSK
    Provides slides, syllabi and multimedia materials for TUSDM courses. Browse by course or search across our curricula. Anyone with a Tufts email account may obtain access by contacting tusk@tufts.edu or calling 617.636.2969.