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2019

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Mapping The Literature Of Dental Hygiene: An Update, Carol L. Watwood, Terry Dean Jul 2019

Mapping The Literature Of Dental Hygiene: An Update, Carol L. Watwood, Terry Dean

DLPS Faculty Publications

Objective: This study updates Haaland’s 1999 dental hygiene mapping study. By identifying core journals and estimating database coverage, it characterizes changes in dental hygiene research and aids librarians in collection development and user education.

Method: Cited references from a three-year (2015–2017) sample of core dental hygiene journals were collected, categorized into five formats, and analyzed by format and publication year according to Bradford’s Law of Scattering. CINAHL Complete, MEDLINE, and EMBASE were surveyed to determine the indexing coverage of cited journals.

Results: The number of cited journal titles increased from 389 in 1999 to 1,675 in 2018. Core Zone 1 …


Ua66/14/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Nursing Accreditation, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua66/14/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Nursing Accreditation, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

The accreditation file for Nursing.