Online Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Food Labels (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
  Provides a unique source of information on food, nutrition, food labels, and associated legislation, organizations, and diseases and conditions. Coverage includes various topics related to nutrition and food labels.
• Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
  Two-volume reference examines the relationship between food and health and analyzes how nutrition has affected quality of life, health and fitness on a historical, national and personal level.

Key Databases

• Academic Search Complete
  Over 6,400 active full-text journals, more than 5,700 being peer-reviewed titles, providing access to critical information unique to this database. Covering STEM research, including biology, and other topics.
• ProQuest Research Library: Health & Medicine
  Search the health and medical journals within ProQuest databases, including Research Library, Physical Education Index, and Dissertations & Theses
• Science Direct
  Nearly 30 full text, peer-reviewed food science & nutrition journals, covering topics like food processing and engineering, nutritional policies and nutrition biochemistry.

National Library of Medicine

• MEDLINE
  Oldest and still active citation database with links to full text, when available. MEDLINE can be accessed through Ebsco and shares the same searching format as other databases such as CINAHL. The database is notable for the careful journal screening process and the use of, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®), to index citations.
• PubMed
  begins with MEDLINE and builds out from there offering a broader range of coverage with far more records, including additional full text coverage. You may limit your PubMed search retrieval to MEDLINE citations only by restricting your search to the MeSH controlled vocabulary or by using the Journal Categories filter called MEDLINE.
• PubMed Central (PMC)
  Full-text archive for full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles. It is a repository for journal literature deposited by participating publishers, as well as for author manuscripts that have been submitted in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy and similar policies of other research funding agencies. Some PMC journals are also MEDLINE journals.

For a complete understanding of these three databases go to the MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different? Fact Sheet.

Streaming Video

• Films on Demand: Nutrition
  Over 300 videos on nutrition, including food safety, nutrition and fitness, nutrients and energy, and more.

Key Publications

• Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
  January 2012-Present via Science Direct
• Journal of the American Dietetic Association
  1995-December 2011 via Science Direct
• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  7/1/1954-1 year ago via Highwire Press
  Most recent 1 year available in Mahoney Library Periodicals Room as print subscription.
• Nutrition
  1996-Present via Science Direct

Other Resources

• AGRICOLA
  2,200 journals covering the agricultural sciences, including food science and human nutrition. Full text not included, but may be available through other sources.
• BioMed Central
  Open access journal articles covering diabetes and other medical conditions, nutrition, lipids, and metabolism. Free registration required.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Thesis Global: Health & Medicine
  Over 1 million downloadable full text dissertations and theses, covering a wide range of graduate research topics, including health care management.
• AGRIS Search
  Literature related to agriculture and human nutrition from 1975 to the present. Material includes citations from scientific journals, grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more. Some links to full text.
• Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
  Courtesy of Cornell University, this digitized collection includes select titles historically important to the fields of agriculture, food science, and human nutrition, published between 1800 and 2000.