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DOH205/206 Research Skills Guide

Why use journal databases?

Journal databases:

  • Are the best source of academic or scholarly information for your assessments
  • Help you locate peer reviewed articles
  • Are subject specific, so that you get more relevant results
  • Have many options for refining results

Check out the 'Watch now' video tutorials Using Library Databases and Advanced Database Searching. 

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EBSCOhost (Health), explored below, is just one of many databases that Charles Sturt Library subscribes to. 
Find other relevant databases under Medical Sciences & Dentistry on the A-Z databases

Searching in a database

Activity

""EBSCOhost (Health) is a package of health-related databases which includes Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source. In EBSCOhost (Health) try searching for the keywords – ("aged care" OR "nursing home*") AND ("oral health" OR dental), entered as in the example below:

Alternatively, you could try searching for the key concepts you have identified from your assessment topic.

  • Being a collection of health databases, you should find these results relevant to your topic.
  • Try limiting by publication date to see the most recent material and/or choose a subject limiter to make your results more relevant.
  • Look at the HTML and PDF links to access the full text of the article. If you cannot find a link to the full text of an article follow the                 Find it            link to find out if it is available in another journal database.

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