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Open Access resources

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PubMed This link opens in a new window
The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC)

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Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of databases containing high quality, in-depth evidence to assist in healthcare decision making. Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which provides peer-reviewed systematic reviews and protocols; information about clinical trials; and a database of clinical answers. Best bet - browse by topic 'Dentistry & Oral Helath'

BioMed Central (BMC) contains high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC Series. BMC is part of Springer Nature.

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BioMed Central (BMC) Oral Health This link opens in a new window
Part of the BioMed Central collection. BMC Oral Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of disorders of the mouth, teeth and gums, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.

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Trip Medical Database This link opens in a new window
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

The Center for EBD assists practitioners and improves the oral health of the public by:

Appraising and disseminating the best available scientific evidence on oral health care; and
Helping practitioners understand and apply the best available evidence in their clinical decision-making.

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Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry This link opens in a new window
CEBED provides resources to support the practice of evidence-based dentistry, conducting EBD research and teaching EBD.

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Epistemonikos This link opens in a new window
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is one of the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence.

To link your Goggle Scholar account to ADA National Digital Library go to the Search and Help Guide for Google Scholar.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
A meta-search engine which provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources

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Use the search box below to search all subscription resources and a range of Open Access resources, including PubMed Central, on the National Digital Library Discovery Service

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