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Dental Assisting

Here you will find library and internet resources for research on topics and issues in Dental Science and Dental Assisting

OneSearch Tips

From the College’s homepage (https://www.redwoods.edu/), click on Academics in the top banner and then click on Library Homepage from the submenu, see Figure 1.

CR's homepage with the Academic link circled.

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 1. Snip of CR's homepage, showing the Academics link.

From the Academic submenu click on the Library Home link, see Figure 2.

Academics submenu with the Library Home page link circled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 2. Academic submenu with link to Library circled.

From the Library Services page, scroll down to the OneSearch widget and type in your search terms, see Figure 3.

OneSearch is the library's discovery system. From the library's webpage you can use OneSearch widget to start searching the catalog and more.

 

 

 

 

Figure 3. OneSearch widget from the Library Resources homepage.

From the search results page, look at the top search bar to make sure that it shows “Everything”. This means that you searched across all the shared and open access resources, see Figure 4.

When using OneSearch, you can choose to search only the CR library's collections or you use the discovery part of OneSearch by using the Everything search option.

 

 

Figure 4. OneSearch bar showing that the search was performed for "Everything" or across all collections.

On the search results page, there is a left sidebar with several filter options. In the Availability section, there are three options that will help you to find articles

  • Available Online: This option will limit the search results to only resources that are available online/the Internet.
  • Open Access: This filter will limit the search results to resources that are available for free. Some resources are available only if your college buys access to an organizations’ databases. This option would remove these resources and limit you to free online information resources.
  • Peer-reviewed Journals: This option limits your search results to peer-reviewed journals. This means that articles published in these journals are written by experts and then reviewed by other experts before being accepted for publication.

You may not need to select all three options as shown in the screenshot below. When you are done selecting your filters, click the Apply Filters button, see Figure 5.

Search filters that allow you to limit your search results to "Available Online", "Open Access" (free), and "Peer-reviewed Journals".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 5. Showing the availability filters to further refine your search results.

There are more filters available that you can use to further refine your results, see Figure 6. This is especially useful if you have too many results to filter through.

Additional search filters: "Sort by", "Subject", "Author/Creator", "Creation Date", "Resource Type", "Language", and "Journal Title".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 6. Additional filters to refine your search results.

 

Open Access Journal Articles from OneSearch

In OneSearch, you find an article that is “Open Access”. This means that the information is available online for free. See figure 1 for an example of an Open Access journal article found using OneSearch.

Screenshot of an open access journal article record with the phrase "Open Access" circled to demonstrate where in the record this information is displayed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 1. Record for an open Access journal article from OneSearch. The Open Access signifier is marked green box.

To go the open access article’s record, click on the “Available Online” link, see figure 2.

Screenshot of an open access journal article record with the phrase "Available Online" circled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 2. Record for an open Access journal article from OneSearch with the Available Online link circled.

You will be re-directed to the article’s record. There are two important pieces of information show in figure 3, below. The first is the phrase “full text”. This means that the entire article is available for free, online. This is important because most professors require that students read the articles they cite and not just the abstract. The second piece of information is the “View record in the Directory of Open Access Journals” link.

Screenshot of an open access article's detailed record with an arrow pointing to the phrase "full text available" and with the link to Directory of Open Access Journals circled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 3. Screenshot of an open access article’s detailed record with the record’s link circled.

You will be re-directed to the Directory of Open Access Journals, DOAJ, see figure 4.

Screenshot of the webpage banner for Directory of Open Access Journals, DOAJ.

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 4. Webpage banner of the Directory of Open Access Journals, DOAJ.

Scroll down to the abstract and click on the full text tab, see figure 5.

Screenshot showing the full text link on the DOAJ webpage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 5. Screenshot showing the Full Text link from the DOAJ webpage.

You will be re-directed to the open access journal that published the article, see figure 6. The Full-Text button allows you to read the full article online. The Download PDF button allows you to download and save a PDF copy of the article. Browse Figures allows you to look at the figures, graphs, and images that are part of the article. And the Cite this Paper will show you a formatted citation for the article. It is important to note the format of the citation and the format that you professor requires.

Screenshot of the reading and downloading options for DOAJ articles.

 

 

Figure 6. Screenshot showing the different reading options for DOAJ open access journal articles.