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SELECTED INDEXES 


Health Source- Consumer Edition: search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.

Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition:  provides nearly 540 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals.

Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews -- Reference RM 214 .N8 (1956 to 1993).

PubMed:  1966 to present; available as Index Medicus, 1985 to present at Reference Z 6660 .I422.

MEDLINE via EBSCOhost :MEDLINE contains abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 publications found in Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.

ProQuest magazine articles, journal articles (many full-text) and newspaper article citations; coverage usually 1990s to present; see also Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature -- Reference Index (1900 to present); coverage of mainstream popular magazines.

Social Sciences Plus [Index]: part of ProQuest; 1975 to 1990 at Reference Index Alcove; previous years under different titles, same call number.

Columbia International Affairs Online: -- provides access to citations to journal articles, books, parts of books, government documents, etc., 1991 to present; for older coverage of international issues use P.A.I.S. Bulletin Ref. JA1.P8

Sociological Abstracts: This database provides citations to articles from the fields of sociology and social work from 1960 to the present; entries from 1974 to the present have abstracts.

ABI/Inform: (part of ProQuest); business emphasis; see also Business Periodicals Index,1958 to 1990 at Reference HF 5001 .B75

LexisNexis Academic (online, full-text); databases include General Medical & Health News, Medical & Health Journals, Medical Abstracts; General News Topics.

INSPIRE (Indiana’s Virtual Library) - online, recent years – a large number of databases, including Comprehensive Medline, Health Source and Academic & Health Source: Consumer: searchable full text for over 200 titles including The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet, covering nearly 150,000 articles abstracts and indexing for nearly 500 general health, nutrition, and professional health care titles, covering over 400,000 articles USP DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient, a searchable full text for nearly 1,000 health-related pamphlets.

Applied Science and Technology Index (part of ProQuest, 1983 to present); technical emphasis; also 1958 to 1993 at Reference T 1 .I52.

Biological Abstracts (online 2000 to present; 1926 to present at Reference QH 301 .B37); see also Biological & Agricultural Index (1916 to 1993/1994) -- Reference Z 5073 .A46.

Sport Discus: (Online journal coverage1975 to present; monographs 1949 to present); educational materials in health, physical education & recreation.

ERIC (online, several versions, 1966 to present) -- Educational Resources Information Center; access to all levels/areas of education, includes journal articles and ERIC documents; separate handout available. ERIC access that includes ERIC Document reproduction from 1996 onwards (PDF files; limited to ISU faculty, staff, students); ERIC via EBSCO Host access; ERIC via the Internet (no restrictions)

 BOOKS


Biochemistry of Human Nutrition : a desk reference
-- Reference QP141 .G76 2000.

Cambridge World History of Food / editors, Kenneth F. Kiple, Kriemhild Coneč Ornelas -- Reference TX353 .C255 2000

Food and Nutrition Information Guide (Paula Szilard) --  Reference Z 5776 .N8 S94 1987.

Encyclopedia of Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements (Tova Navarra and Myron A. Lipkowitz) -- Reference QP 771 .E53 1996

Index to Nutrition and Health: a selected bibliography of 239 titles with a cumulated index (Joseph W. Sprug) -- Westwood, Mass.: F.W. Faxon, 1981 -- Reference Z 6663 .N9 S67.

The Nutrition Desk Reference: NDR --  Reference QP 141 .G33 1985.

Bowes' and Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used (Anna De Planter Bowes) -- 17th ed., rev. -- Jean A.T. Pennington in consultation with Helen Nichols Church -- Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1998 -- Reference TX551 .B64 1998.
   
 PERIODICALS SPECIFIC to 
NUTRITION

Many of our article databases contain direct links to check for online full-text, to check local holding in the Online Catalog and also to request articles via Interlibrary Loan if not held locally. If you have an article citation, check for online full-text availability via the E-Journal link. If not available, check the Online Catalog for more information; do a journal title search for each title listed below to obtain exact volume holdings and locations. Here are some titles of interest:
 
In Print (in Library)
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism
British Journal of Nutrition
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Food & Nutrition
Journal of Nutrition
Journal of Nutrition Education
Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology
Nutrition Reviews
Nutrition Today
World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics
ProQuest (*=full-text)
*American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
*Better Nutrition
Environmental Nutrition
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
*Family Economics and Nutrition Review
Food and Nutrition
*International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition
*Journal of Nutrition
*Journal of Nutrition Education
*Nutrition Action Health Letter
*Nutrition Forum; Amherst 
*Nutrition Health Review
*Nutrition Reviews
Nutrition Today
*Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter

ACCESS TO RESOURCES OTHER THAN the ISU LIBRARY

ISU Interlibrary Loan: Place requests for books, journal articles and other library materials not available locally via Interlibrary Loan on the ISU Library Home Page. Allow 1 week to 10 days for receipt. Some limits to the number of requests per person per week do apply; for more information, inquire in the Interlibrary Loan Office (open 8-4:30, Monday - Friday). Materials can be picked up and returned at the Check-out Desk.

See also resources available via FirstSearch and Ingenta.


INTERNET 
SITES

 
Information on Countries
CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Country Studies (Library of Congress) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Link Sites
Nutrition (Public Health) World Wide Web Virtual Library http://www.ldb.org/vl/top/top-nut.htm
Web Dietician {conceptualised and designed by Dr. Rao Ivaturi, Associate Professor of Nutrition at Indiana State University} http://www.webdietician.com/
NetHealth http://www.netdoctor.com
Internet's Fitness Center http://www.netsweat.com/
Food Resource http://www.orst.edu/food-resource/food.html
Nutrition, Food and Health Resources(The Blonz Guide)  http://blonz.com/
Nutrition Navigator (Tufts University); a rating guide to nutrition websites http://navigator.tufts.edu/
The Virtual Nutrition Center: cooking, food science, food management, safety and 40,000+ recipes (a Martindale Health Science guide) http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Nutrition.html
Individual Links 
HungerWeb: a project of the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program at the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University.  http://www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/
The Hunger Project: Empowering Self-reliance for a World Free from Hunger http://www.thp.org/thp/
Global Hunger Network: A Collaborative Space for Issues Surrounding World Hunger http://www.ghn.org/
Food First: The Institute For Food And Development Policy http://www.foodfirst.org/
International Union of Nutritional Sciences http://www.iuns.org
Infoods Information: A collection of news, data, and documents relating to the International Food Data Systems Project The International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS) INFOODS is a comprehensive effort, under the United Nations University Food and Nutrition Programme, to improve data on the nutrient composition of foods from all parts of the world. http://www.fao.org/infoods/
MedWeb http://WWW.MedWeb.Emory.Edu/MedWeb/
Arbor Nutrition Guide from Arbor Communications http://arborcom.com/
Natural Health Products & Information http://www.mothernature.com
United Nations Development Programe: Sustainable Human Development http://www.undp.org/undphome.html
FDA News & Publications  http://www.fda.gov/opacom/hpnews.html
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition http://www.ajcn.org
Epicurious Dictionary http://www.epicurious.com/run/FoodDictionary/Home
Nutrition Analysis Tools http://www.nat.uiuc.edu
International Food Information Council http://www.ific.org/
American Society for Nutritional Sciences http://www.nutrition.org/
USDA Nutrient Database for Standard
Reference (searchable)
Http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
Children's Nutrition Research Center http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/cnrc/

ONLINE DISCUSSION GROUPS

To find out about the availability of online discussion groups, go to Topica and enter a search for nutrition. Read the information about each group and how to subscribe.



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