Nutrition
A research guide: reference, articles, & web sites
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How to Find Books in the ODU Library and Online:
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Reference
items available in print are located in the Library’s Reference collection,
behind the Reference Desk on the top floor
of Spangler. Reference items available
online are accompanied by links.
See also these related research guides: Biology, and
Chemistry
Almanacs and Atlases
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The Penguin Atlas
of Food. R 664 M629p, 2003
Data Collections & Indexes
Dietary Supplements
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Dietary
Supplements Fact Sheets (Council for Responsible Nutrition) www.crnusa.org/about_gen.html
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The Merck Index:
An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals - Includes plant &
herbal medicines, nutraceuticals, supplements, food additives, and more. R
615.103 M537i
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PDR for
Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements, and Herbs. R 615.103 M537i and CD-ROM
Nutrients
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The Merck Index:
An Encylopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals - Includes plant and herbal medicines,
nutraceuticals, supplements, food additives, and more. R 615.103 M537i
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Natural Standard Herb & Supplement Database http://www.ana-jana.org/herbs.cfm
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Nutrient Data
Laboratory (USDA) - Breakdown of nutrients in food. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/index.html
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Nutrition Data -
Breakdown of nutrients in food. http://www.nutritiondata.com
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Nutritional
Metabolomics Database http://nugowiki.org/index.php/Nutritional_Metabolomics_Database
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USDA Nutrient Data
Laboratory: Food Composition http://grande.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=2&tax_subject=279&topic_id=1387
Plants and Herbs
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Christopher
Hobbs’ Herbal Prescriber Database http://christopherhobbs.com/database/?herbs&hterm=S
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GRIN Taxonomy for
Plants (USDA) - Germplasm Resources Information Network http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxgenform.pl
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Herbal e-Library
(American Herbal Products Association) http://www.ahpa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=72
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HerbMed
(Alternative Medicine Foundation) http://www.herbmed.org
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The Merck Index:
An Encylopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals - Includes plant and herbal medicines, nutraceuticals,
supplements, food additives, and more. R 615.103 M537i
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PDR for
Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements, and Herbs. R 615.103 M537i and CD-ROM
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TROPICOS (
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USDA
Plants Database - Vascular plants,
mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens. http://plants.usda.gov
Dictionaries
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Dorland’s
Illustrated Medical Dictionary. R 610.3 D711, 2000
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Glossary from Micronutrient
Information Center Glossary (Linus Pauling Institute) http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/glossary.html
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Oxford Reference Dictionaries,
available at Oxford
Reference Online: Medicine
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A Dictionary of
Food and Nutrition
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A Dictionary of
Public Health
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Stedman’s Medical
Dictionary. R 610.3 S812m, 2000 - available online through Health
Source (Click on “Medical Dictionary”)
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Terminology in
Herbal Literature (American Botanical Corn)
http://abc.herbalgram.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Terminology
Directories
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Healthfinder (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services) -
Includes Directory of Organizations http://www.healthfinder.gov/Scripts/SearchContext.asp?topic=591
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USA.gov: Health
and Nutrition http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Health.shtml
Encyclopedias and Handbooks
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Advanced
Nutrition (CRC Press). R 612.39 B486a, 1998
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Cambridge Handbook
of Psychology, Health, and Medicine. R 616.0019 C1443
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Diet and Nutrition Sourcebook. R 613.2
D5665n, 2006
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Encyclopedia of
Human Development. R 155.03 E195h, 2006 ,3 vols.
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Encyclopedia of
Nutrition and Good Health R 613.2 R775e
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Gale Encyclopedia
of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition, 2008, 2 vols. - online in
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
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Gale Encyclopedia
of Mental Health, 2008, 2 vols. - online in Gale
Virtual Reference Library
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MedlinePlus
Medical Encyclopedia http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
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World of Health.
R 610 W89367h
Guides and Sourcebooks (Singular Focus)
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Cambridge World
History of Food. R 641.3009 C1446w, 2000 , 2 vols.
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Food Plants of
the World - includes nutritional values. R 581.632 V389f, 2005
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Guidebook to
Protein Toxins and their Use in Cell Biology. R 615.9 G946, 1997
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Harvard Guide to
Women’s Health. R 616.0082 C1974h
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Health Reference
Series by Omnigraphics - Several sourcebooks for researching diseases,
disabilities, and injuries. Search in the ODU Library catalog.
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Use an online research database to
find articles: ·
How to access the databases below: ·
Database guides are available: On the library’s Research
Help page or in print by the Library |
Recommended Databases
A. Key
Databases in Nutrition
Contains peer-reviewed
journal coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly publications. Covers many academic areas of study, including nutrition and nutrition
counseling. Updated daily.
Provides
access to articles, reports, proceedings, and
association and consumer newsletters from the perspectives
of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness
CINAHL
(Nursing & Allied Health)
Indexes research articles, health care books, nursing
dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice,
educational software, audiovisuals, and book chapters in nursing, biomedicine,
health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer
health, and 17 allied health disciplines
Electronic
Journal Center
Presents over 4300 research journals, covering numerous subject areas. Coverage
includes general medicine, immunology, neurology, nutrition and metabolism,
pediatrics, physiology and anatomy, public health and other areas in the health
sciences.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Indexes
articles in scholarly journals from medical disciplines, particularly nursing
and allied health, and provides full-text entries from Stedman's Medical
Dictionary.
HerbMed® (http://www.herbmed.org)
From
the Alternative Medicine Foundation. Provides
hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for
health from PubMed. Includes common, scientific, and family names, evidence for
efficacy, evidence of activity, safety data, formulas/blends, images, and other
information.
Notes: Public-access version covers only 45 herbs. If an article is not
available in PubMed, try Medline.
International
Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
(http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/Health_Information/IBIDS.aspx)
Public-access database from National Institutes of Health and the
Office of Dietary Supplements. Provides
access to citations and abstracts from published, international, scientific
literature on dietary supplements.
From
the National Library of Medicine. Covers research journal articles in the
clinical sciences in Some “Limit search results” features: Language, year,
publication type (e.g., article, clinical trial), age group, animal, human,
gender, and review articles.
Natural & Alternative Treatments
Provides access to information on the
safety- and efficacy-evidence regarding natural products, organized by
substance and by medical condition. For each condition, herb and supplement, it
suggests the direct, informed questions necessary to elicit potential
drug/herb/supplement interactions.
PubMed
is public-accessible health database service of the National Library of
Medicine that includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back
to the 1950s. Citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals.
PubMed includes links to many sites providing full-text articles and other
related resources. Note: If an article is not available in PubMed full-text, try Medline.
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science)
Citations only. Indexes articles in
peer-reviewed journals—complete bibliographic data, searchable author
abstracts, and cited references. Coverage: 1980 to the present. Note: Not
intended as a substitute for a comprehensive subject database such as Medline,
which comprehensively
indexes journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other documents.
B. Additional
Science Databases
AGRICOLA
From the
Biological
Abstracts/BIOSIS Previews
Includes
from most disciplines in the life sciences scholarly journal articles,
meetings, review articles, books, monographs, and post-1998 patent information.
Coverage: 1980-. Some Limit features: Language; mo./yr; review article;
article, meeting.
Covers
research in environmental sciences. Good source for policy information on
agriculture and the environment. Coverage: 1950s to the present.
Indexes articles covering global warming, green building,
pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and related
topics.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Citations only. Focuses on the history of science, technology, and medicine, and
their influence on culture. Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings,
books, book reviews, and dissertations in all scientific disciplines and
related fields. Coverage: 1975-.
TOXNET:
Toxicology Data Network
From
the
C. More
Useful Databases
Offers
news and legal information. Covers
newspapers, magazines, wire services, court decisions, and law. Updated daily.
PAIS International
Public
Affairs Information Service International indexes literature of all areas of public affairs, including nutrition, public
health administration, and health care.
Coverage
includes articles in sports nutrition, physical
fitness, exercise, tai chi, and related areas.