Library Guides: Information Resources for working in the Bwindi Community Hospital: A Guide: Articles & Databases

Specialty Databases for Nutrition Research Topics

Diet, Food, and Nutrition – How To Search in PubMed
By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence and Xiaomei Gu
2015 blog: PubMed misses the big picture when it comes to nutrition
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Nutrition articles can be difficult to find in PubMed. Search using this 'hedge' in the PubMed search box: “food OR foods OR beverages OR diet OR dietary OR vitamin OR vitamins OR nutrition OR nutritional OR nutrition disorders OR food industry OR nutritional physiological phenomena OR dietary fats OR dietary proteins OR feeding behaviour”

To the above hedge, add a subject at the end

FoodData Central - U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
USDA... information about the nutrients and other components of foods and food products.

Global Health
Covers health topics in developing and developed countries world-wide including communicable diseases, tropical diseases, parasitic diseases and parasitology, medical entomology, human nutrition, community and public health, medicinal and poisonous plants. 1910 - present.
AGRICOLA
Records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Use for animal model selection and food, nutrition and agriculture related literature.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
EBSCOhost. Nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for many journals indexed in CINAHL.
EconLit
EBSCOHost. From the American Economic Association. Accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
ERIC (ProQuest)
The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. Access 14,000+ documents and over 20,000+ journal articles per year. Coverage from 1966-present.
PubMed
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Millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and eBooks. Click on TU LINK within a record to explore full text options.

Scholarly Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete
Ebscohost. Multidisciplinary full-text general literature.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
ProQuest. Full-text of many dissertations after 1997, citations and/or abstracts prior to 1997
Web of Science Core
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Interdisciplinary database includes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports. Includes citation searching (see how many times a paper has been cited). Coverage: 1976 - present.

Dietary Supplements & Alternative Medicine

PubMed® subset, "Dietary Supplements
Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Limit search results to citations from a broad spectrum of dietary supplement literature including vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, ergogenic, botanical, and herbal supplements in human nutrition and animal models.
Dietary Supplements Labels Database (NLM)
Joint project of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) and National Library of Medicine (NLM). Full label contents from a sample of dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S. Search On Market (Label information from dietary supplement products that are currently on the U.S. market) or Off Market (Label information from dietary supplement products that have been discontinued or are no longer on the U.S. market) products. All information is obtained from manufacturers' labels.

Alt-HealthWatch
Perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.

NCCIH - the National Center for Complementary National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
US Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

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