Foothill Dental Hygiene Resources: Articles & Databases

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection. Launched in February 2000, PMC was developed and is managed by NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Currently provides access to more than 8 million articles in full-text,

Medline Plus:

• Directs the general public to information to help answer health questions.
• Brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
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• Pre-formulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles.

You can find thousands of articles in magazines and journals in the library's online databases. The following databases are helpful for this subject.

The following periodicals are available online via the library databases:

The library provides access to more than 200 dentistry periodicals in full-text. Browse these periodicals by subject: