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Nutrition Research
This page has been prepared for students enrolled in the
Nutrition courses at the College of St.
Benedict / Saint John's University.
Contents:
Web Sites
(Note! Not everything on the web is accurate, and this is
especially true of information related to nutrition. See Quackwatch and the National Council Against Health Fraud.
And see also Internet
Information Remains Unhealthy from Nutrition News Focus,
which gives some hints for finding reliable nutrition web sites.
Evaluating a Source: Some Questions to Ask also gives general
guidelines.)
See the links on the
Quick Reference: Health and Medicine,
Internet Resources for Nutrition or the
Internet Resources for Nursing pages.
If you need statistics, the CDC Search page retrieves
health and disease data from the
Center for Disease Control and the National Center for Health
Statistics.
If you are looking for the latest nutrition news, try:
Note: For help in citing material you find on web sites, use
the links on our Citing Sources page.
General Sources
Depending on your topic and your own knowledge about it, you may
want to find an overview. An overview can help you narrow your
topic, put it in context within its discipline, and identify
"classic" research. Encyclopedias are usually excellent sources for
overviews. Use these links, or ask a reference librarian for
help.
- Britannica Online - a
college-level encyclopedia, always a good place to start. If you
are off-campus, you can use our
proxy server or
use the free version at
Britannica.com instead.
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, CSB Reference RC 41 .G35 1999
- Encyclopaedia of Food Science, Food Technology and
Nutrition - CSB Reference TX 349 .E47 1993, an 8-volume
set. London ; San Diego: Academic Press, c1993.
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Encyclopedia
of Human Nutrition is available online or in print, CSB
Reference QP 141 .E526 1999, a 3-volume set. The index for the
complete print set is duplicated in each volume. San Diego:
Academic Press, c1999. The online version is available free
for 48 hours to guests who register, as is the
Encyclopedia of Food
Microbiology.
- Encyclopedia of Human Biology, CSB Reference QP 11 .E53
1991, an 8-volume set, the last volume of which is the index. San
Diego: Academic Press, c1991.
-
Access Science is the online version of the
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
- The Annual Review of
Nutrition provides an overview of research in the field of
nutrition. 1984 to the present is available online; Clemens Library
also has all of the volumes, 1981 to the present, CSB QP 141 .A1
A64.
- Cambridge World History of Food - CSB Reference TX
353 .C255 2000, a 2-volume set. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, c2000. Just one of many reference works on food
in the libraries.
You can also get overviews and encyclopedia articles from the
A.D.A.M. Health
Illustrated Encyclopedia available from MedlinePlus.
Overviews are, of course, also available in books. Use our
online catalog,
MnPALS, which can be set to access the
CSB/SJU, St. Cloud State, and University of Minnesota library catalogs. You can
also search many of the other libraries in Minnesota on
WebPALS. Use
Interlibrary Loan to request those not here.
WorldCat
can take you even farther, to other catalogs in the U. S. and abroad.
Indexes & Journals
Note: You will find more in the
Indexes & Journals section of the
CSB/SJU Internet Resources for
Nutrition page.
- To find citations to articles in the broad field of medicine,
including nutrition, use MEDLINE via the National Library of
Medicine's
PubMed (powerful, yet user-friendly). You can also go to MedlinePlus,
MEDLINE access designed for the layperson, to access MEDLINE,
online medical dictionaries and directories, and a host of other
NLM/NIH databases. Or you can search several NLM databases
simultaneously via the
NLM Gateway.
- To find articles so recent that they don't yet appear in
MEDLINE and other indexes, you can do keyword searches of the
titles and abstracts in Current
Contents.
-
CINAHL - CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals
from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. There
is the full text 337 of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations,
critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
- Our
Nursing Abstracts
and Indexes list includes some other indexes that might be
useful, too, including ProQuest Nursing
Journals, comprised of 280+ full text nursing
journals.
- Science Citation Index, part of the Web of Science, covers the fields
of chemistry, mathematics, medicine, biology, engineering and
physics. The citation index shows you how many times and in what
publications a certain author or journal article has been cited
within the literature. There is also a general search option that
allows users to search by title, author, or subject.
- And you might have a go at LexisNexis Academic,
which has a section for General Medical & Health Topics, and
includes some full text sources.
Check the
Journal Finder to see which articles you can find in our libraries,
in print or online.
For things we don't have or can't access here, submit ILL requests
using the form on the
Interlibrary Loan
page. There is no charge for this service. (Remember that
interlibrary loan can be as quick as overnight or as long as three weeks.)
Writing Your Paper and Citing Your Sources
Along the way, you might like to use our
Assignment Calculator,
with useful links to help on choosing a topic, writing a thesis, evaluating
sources, avoiding plagiarism, etc. And, for your
bibliography and footnotes, use Peggy's APA Citation
Style: Examples for Nursing Students page, the library's
Citing
Sources page, or the Publication Manual of the
American Psychological Association, CSB & SJU Reference BF
76.7 .P83, for print sources.
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