Fuentes de información en odontología

In this work a tour of the main sources of medical information of interest in dentistry is carried out. Its objective is to present to the students, professors, researchers and professionals of the dentistry a selection of quality resources that allow to develop their respective functions of learning, teaching, investigation and exercise of the health care, with guarantees of knowing the sources of information more complete and updated. To do this we have reviewed the most recent bibliography on the subject and visited the web sites of the main medical and scientific information resources (databases, scientific search engines, editorial portals, research repositories, open access platforms and directories, etc.), from which we have obtained descriptive information about them, analyzed their performance and contrasted their level of dental information. From this analysis we extract a selection of sources of information and search tools that we believe cover with a high level of quality all areas of the scientific production in dentistry. We conclude that there are hardly any sources of secondary information of dentistry beyond the specific primary sources of information (monographs, theses, conference proceedings, journals, etc.). Health sciences or multidisciplinary, which collect documents of dentistry. Most of the selected sources are open access or, with payment being the access to the full text, allow open bibliographic consultations of interest for their content in dental information. Some are totally closed payment resources but usually consulted because there is some type of subscription or purchase consortium in universities and health centers. And others we believe deserve to be so for their specificity and quality. We note an important and qualified progress of the information resources in open access.