Library Guides: Dental Medicine: Web Resources

Recommended Websites:

Patient Handouts and PubMed Open Access:

Europe PubMed Central
MedlinePlus: Dental Health
PubMed Health
PubMed Health Clinical Guide
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NCBI's Health resources include databases for use in clinical practice and medical research that contain information about human disease and pathology, including diagnostics and treatments.
PubMen Central
SciTech
Public access gateway to full-text, peer-reviewed articles
Atlas of Oral Pathology

Cases

Cultural Competencies

DiversityRx
The purpose of DiversityRx is to improve the accessibility and quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and indigenous communities.
Ethnomed
Harborview Medical Center’s EthnoMed contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.
Health Resources Services Administration
Resources are organized by gender, ethnicity, special populations, age, and a general resources section.
National Center for Cultural Competence
The mission of Georgetown University's NCCC is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Specialized Information Services
Provides links to a variety of cultural competency websites as well as glossaries, laws, refugee health portals, and health resources in multiple languages.

Evaluating Websites:

Credibility:

Is there an author listed?

Does the author cite sources?

Does the author have credentials?

Can you contact the author?

Who sponsored the page?

Bias:

Is the point of view objective?

Is the author biased?

Are they selling anything?

Audience:

What level is the target audience?

Is the content comprehensive or lite?

Accuracy:

Is the information source cited?

Does this site contradict other sites?

What research methods were used?

Currency:

The site was last updated when?

Is the information outdated?

Relevance:

Is the site relevant to your topic?

Is the site popular or relevant?

Evaluating publishers

If you are wriing an article for publication it is important in the current publishing climate to evaluate the publisher. Here is a presentation by Courtney Mlinar, NSU College of Dental Medicine Library Liaison about evaluating publishers with definitions of the different types of open access publication models.

If there is not much information available about the publisher, evaluate the publisher's web site using the model shown in the box above. You can also find more information using Ulrichs Periodical Directory.