Searching for Research Articles on the Internet

ABSTRACT

While reading original research articles is important for keeping up with recent developments in dentistry, locating the articles to read can be a frustrating experience. This practically oriented article covers several methods that can be used to make online searches more effective and efficient and discusses methods for accessing the full text of those articles.

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Steve Kirk

Steve Kirk, PhD, is an assistant professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo where he teaches English to future Japanese doctors. He has a master’s degree in teaching English to speakers of other languages from the University of Washington and a doctorate in applied linguistics from the University of Nottingham, U.K. He researches the development of second-language-spoken fluency, as well as educational methods such as flipped learning.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure: None reported.