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Key Nutrition & Food Studies Databases

Medline with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database of literature on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health-care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text to journals in the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. Includes access to health care books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, Evidence-Based Care Sheets, legal cases, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Subject coverage includes nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. View a tutorial on this database here.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
Covers recreation; exercise physiology; sports medicine; coaching; physical fitness; the psychology, history and sociology of sport; training; and conditioning. Consists primarily of periodical articles and monographs from 1800 onward; also contains dissertations and theses.
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Web of Science: Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and searchable author abstracts, covering scholarly literature in journals, books and conference proceedings. Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Emerging Sources Citation Index. Additional resources available by selecting from the dropdown list next to the Core Collection heading. Tutorial for the Web of Science: Core Collection database.
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Consists of bibliographic data produced by the National Agricultural Library such as literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture and related fields. Tutorial for the AGRICOLA database.
BIOSIS Previews This link opens in a new window
Covers original life science research reports and reviews in traditional biological and biomedical areas; as well as references to primary journal literature on vital biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
Tutorial for the JSTOR database.

Key Nutrition & Food Studies Journals

Public Health Nutrition
Peer-reviewed journal essential reading for all specialists involved with nutritional epidemiological research, the role of nutrition in public health, and the identification of practical solutions to public health problems
Food Policy
Peer-reviewed journal focus is on the economic and social aspect of food policy
Food Research International
Peer-reviewed journal a forum for the rapid dissemination of significant novel and high impact research in food science, technology, engineering and nutrition
Nutrition
Peer-reviewed journal The International Journal of Applied and Basic Nutritional Sciences focuses on new and advancing technologies and data in clinical nutrition practice