Databases
- Articles (Journals, Magazines & Newspapers)
- Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Clinical Trials
- Citation Index
- Dissertations
Articles (Journals, Magazines & Newspapers)
- 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
- More info on PubMed
- More info on Medline Plus
- Now on the Web of Knowledge platform - unlimited concurrent user access!
- Indexes over 4,000 journals in the life sciences
- Includes numerous Nutrition journals.
- Covers 1968 - present
- More info
- Covers nursing, nursing education, and allied health topics 1937-present.
- Find care plans, case studies, legal cases, research studies, and more.
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database
- Full text 1990-present for most titles
- More info
- 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
- More info on Agricola via the National Agricultural Library
- Guide to education articles, books, and reports
- 1967 - present, updated monthly
- More info on ERIC via EBSCO
- Full text of over 1800 scholarly scientific journals published by Elsevier and Academic Press
- More info
- News from popular and a few medical sources; business and legal research
- More info
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.
- More info
- Popular issues, research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of family science, human development, and social work.
- 970-present
- Designed to meet the information needs of patients
- Includes encyclopedia entries, fact sheets, news and journal articles, images and videos, and several consumer drug guides
Health Source, Consumer Edition
- Popular articles on topics such as medicine, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and wellness
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Online full text of a wide variety of encyclopedias, including:
- Nutrition from A to Z
- Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
- Encyclopedia of Medicine
- More info on GVRL
- Provides brief definitions for terms in food and nutrition.
- 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
- More info
Clinical Trials
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
- More info on HRIM
- Help using this database
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
- More info on CARDS
- 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.
- More info on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Help using this resource
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
- More info on CRISP
- Help using this resource
Citation Index
Guide to when, where, and how often articles have been cited
- Citation indexes covering the sciences and social sciences.
- 1955-present
- More info
Dissertations
- Dissertations and Theses: Full Text
- A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses
- More info on Dissertations and Theses: Full Text
- Dissertations & Theses@UNCG
- Provides the full text of UNCG dissertations and theses published after 1996. Provides abstracts for earlier years.
- More info on Dissertations & Theses@UNCG
Nutrition & Food Service Systems Resources
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Nutrition & Food Service Systems Librarian
