Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center  
School of Dentistry

Summer 2005

Online dental monographs in Stat!Ref

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New Ovid Interface
If you have searched MEDLINE in Ovid recently, you most likely noticed the new enhanced interface.  In addition to the updated design, Ovid has several new features.  The icons formerly at the top of the search grid have been moved to more functional locations on the main search page.  If you search more than one database at a time, you can click on "details" in the search history to see the number of citations from each database.

Two new functions, "Find Citation" and "Find Similar," mirror PubMed features.  "Find Citation," Ovid's version of the citation matcher, enables users to identify a citation when they have incomplete information. 

"Find Similar," a quick way to obtain articles related to your search results, works the same as "related articles" in PubMed. "Find Citing Articles" links to more recent articles that cite the original article, if the later articles appear in journals that are included in the Journals @Ovid database.  "Find Similar" and "Find Citing Article" links appear on the results display and in the complete reference page for each citation.

Don't forget that you can save Ovid searches for 24 hours or permanently, and you can also register for AutoAlerts for topics on which you want to keep up-to-date.  You select the frequency of the update and the record format that you prefer, and Ovid will notify you by email each time new articles on your topic are added to the database.

Please contact the dental library if you have questions about any Ovid feature. The librarians will also be happy to run searches for you at no charge.

Online dental monographs in Stat!Ref
The LSUHSC libraries now subscribe to a dental collection in Stat!Ref that  provides electronic access to six dental monographs.  (Stat!Ref is an online collection of full-text medical reference titles.)  To view these dental titles online, go to Innnopac, the library catalog (http://innopac.lsuhsc.edu), and search by author or title.  You will see a link to Stat!Ref in the book record.  These are the titles:

     Hall, Walter.  Critical decisions in periodontology.  4th ed.  Hamilton, Ont., Decker, 2003
     Ingle, John.  Endodontics.  5th ed.  Hamilton, Ont., Decker, 2002.
     Silverman, Sol.  Oral cancer.  5th ed.  Hamilton, Ont., Decker, 2003.
     Peterson, Larry J.  Peterson's principles of oral and maxillofacial surgery. 2nd ed.  Hamilton, Ont.,
              Decker, 2004.
     Harris, Norman.  Primary preventive dentistry. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J., Pearson/Prentice
              Hall, 2004.
    Silverman, Sol.  Essentials of oral medicine.  2002.  Hamilton, Ont., B.C. Decker, 2002.

When you search for specific subjects, Stat!Ref searches all six titles at once and displays the hits in each book.  You also can browse the table of contents of each title. 

To search the full Stat!Ref collection of medical reference books, go to http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/ss&d/data/stat.html.  Please remember to logoff from Stat!Ref when you are finished because our license is limited to five concurrent users.