Nutrition & Food Service Systems Databases - The University Libraries

Indexes and abstracts articles from more that 3,200 medical, health, and nutrition journals
Years of coverage vary; PubMed covers 1953-present and is updated daily
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Agricola

Contains over 3 million citations to articles, books, maps, manuscripts, and Cooperative Extension Service publications.
Compiled by the National Agricultural Library. Covers nutrition, food processing, and handling, and other food-related topics.
1970 - present; updated monthly
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Full text of over 1800 scholarly scientific journals published by Elsevier and Academic Press
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Provides full text for approx. 480 scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also contains indexing and abstracts for an additional 500 journals.
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Popular issues, research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of family science, human development, and social work.
970-present

Online full text of a wide variety of encyclopedias, including:

Thousands of evidence-based medical literature reviews.
Topics such as obesity prevention interventions, nutrition during pregnancy, omega 3 fatty acids and CVD prevention, and more
Cochrane Reviews are indexed in CINAHL
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HNRIM (Human Nutrition Research Information Management)

Descriptions of fully or partially federally funded nutrition research projects.

If you are looking for human nutrition trials, start here rather than at the more general guides to clinical studies like ClinicalTrials.gov or CRISP.
Examples of topics: maternal nutrition, infant and child nutrition, nutrition of the elderly.
Searchable by nutrient name.
1985-present
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CARDS (Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements)

Guide to clinical trials and other research projects pertaining to dietary supplements.

CARDS is a subset of HNRIM and CRISP (other guides to clinical studies).
Records in CARDS are older than the other two systems, and it is updated less frequently.
*But* CARDS provides much more detailed search options:
- Health outcome/biological effect
- Study type or design (in vitro study, human population or human intervention study, retrospective study, etc.)
1999-two years ago
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List of clinical studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other federal agencies, private industry, nonprofit organizations.

Wide range of disease studies, from Abdominal Neoplasms to Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome
Includes studies from all 50 states and over 100 countries.
Includes contents of other NIH clinical studies databases such as CancerNet/PDQ.
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CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Science Projects)

Information on research supported by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Includes biomedical topics.
Some overlap with clinicaltrials.gov, contains some records not found in clinicaltrials.gov
1972-current fiscal year
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