Research Guides: Dental Hygiene for First Year Students: Background Information on your topic

PowerSearch

PowerSearch is a good starting point for your research. It searches almost all of our databases.

It also has a feature called "Research Starter" which offers short summaries & overviews of more than 64,000 popular topics.

Articles are from the Salem Press Encyclopedia, Encylopedia Brittanica, and Magill Medical Guide.
Research Starters appear when the topic search term is broad since it is overview information.

Enter your broad search terms into PowerSearch:

Look for the Research Starter entry at the top of your results:

Use Wikipedia for:	Don't use Wikipedia:
Pop-culture information Finding keywords and subject terms to search with - use bold or linked words Dates, like birth and death dates, dates of major events in history, Names of researchers or organizations who research your topic, Finding related areas of study or related topics - use the "See Also" section	As a cited source for your paper or project - unless you're studying Wikipedia! Encyclopedias should generally not be used as a cited source for academic work Without following up with more, reputable sources on your topic For very current, controversial news topics - you might even notice that an entry page is "locked", to keep people from abusing Wikipedia For legal or medical information