There is s link to Library Resources on the UNC Dentistry homepage in the footer at the bottom left.
The Health Sciences Library link takes you to the Health Sciences Library's Dentistry resources guide.
Select PubMed on this page, or on other campus library pages. PubMed links on library webpages are coded to add the Find @ UNC button that links you to online articles.
When the article is not available online, Find @ UNC links to a page with options to look for print in the library catalog or to request the article via Interlibrary Loan.
PubMed is a free web based interface for searching MEDLINE.
PubMed Homepage
Below is an image of a PubMed article record. Labels were added to explain the information that PubMed provides about the article:
Remember: PubMed does NOT include the full-text of articles in its database--it links out to them. PubMed only searches the information about the article, not the full-text of the article.
MeSH stands for Medical Subject Headings. These are the list of standard terms added by indexers to the article record to help improve search results.
National Libary of Medicine indexers examine articles and assign the most specific MeSH headings that describe the concepts discussed.
The indexer assigns as many MeSH headings as appropriate to cover the topics of the article (generally 5 to 15). When there is no specific heading for a concept, the indexer will use the closest, general heading available.
Indexers can also assign Subheadings to further describe a particular aspect of a MeSH concept. Examples of Subheadings in this list are: therapeutic use, physiology, surgery, drug therapy.
The indexer also assigns terms that reflect the characteristics of the group being studied: the age group, human or other animal, male or female.
(Content adapted from NLM PubMed Tutorial)