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Dental Hygiene: Web Research

Google Scholar Search

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

You may not be able to get access to all of the articles you find through Google Scholar, but if you find a useful article, check MegaSearch and the PCC databases and we may have online access through our databases.  If you need help Ask a Librarian.

Google Scholar Search

PubMed from the National Library of Medicine

PubMed will help you determine what research has been done on a particular topic. It is a mix of citations and full text.

Pre-published research

Try a :.site Google Search

You can search for content on a single website.  For example, if you put the following search in Google:

tohono o'odham diabetes site:.arizona.edu

it will search anything about the Tohono O'odham on the University of Arizona's websites.

Here are more examples to consider:

tohono o'odham diabetes site:.asu.edu

tohono o'odham diabetes site:.nau.edu

tohono o'odham diabetes site:.pima.gov

tohono o'odham diabetes site:.azpm.org