LibGuides: NUTR 10 Hobbs: Suggested Search Tools

Reference & Book Databases

Consumer Health Complete
Consumer health information on many health topics including medical science, food sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
EBSCO provides access to your librarys e-book collection.eContentis the digital version of books you can access 24 hours a days, seven days a week.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Specialized academic and encyclopedic material: find academic articles and definitions. Excellent beginning resource. Find the Career Information Center here!
Salem Press
Salem E-books are electronic versions of print reference books held in the Merced College Library.

Reference Websites

MedlinePlus
The link directs to MedlinePlus' Food and Nutrition Topics webpage. "MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free" ("About MedlinePlus"). This resource can also lead you to scholarly journal articles, clinical trials, etc.
The Nutrition Source
"The Nutrition Source is a leading authority on food and nutrition knowledge, providing science-based guidance for healthy living. Based at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition, The Nutrition Source offers comprehensive nutrition information through timely articles and FAQ’s, while recipes and tools, including The Healthy Eating Plate, facilitate the translation of food and nutrition knowledge into daily practice" ("About Us").
Introduction to Nutrtion Information Resources
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine provide a variety of short webinars (courses) related to health information. This guide is an "...accompaniment to the Food for Thought course...designed to assist librarians, public health workers, health professionals, and the general public in locating authoritative information on nutrition and topics relating to nutrition." The guide is divided into categories: websites and tools, food safety and allergies, nutrition research, and resources by topic.

News, Magazine, & Journal Databases

Academic One File (Gale)
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects - authoritative and comprehensive.
Academic Search Complete
Multi-disciplinary database providing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including peer-reviewed full text for nearly 3,900 journals.
CINAHL Complete
Comprehensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL.

Very sophisticated! Pro tip: use the MeSH headings to figure out how the database describes the topic you're looking for, and click from there.
GreenFILE
Well researched information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment including scholarly, governmental, and general interest titles on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
Health Source--Consumer Edition
Consumer health information on many health topics including medical science, food sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, featuring the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
APA PsycINFO
The largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health developed by the American Psychological Association.Contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries as well as open access full text for more than 4,700 records.

Browse Print Journals

The library has access to many scholarly articles related to nutrition through its database subscriptions. However, If you don't narrow your results to "full-text" (the articles you can read right away) when searching in Academic Search Complete, you may come across articles from the nutrition journals listed below that you can't access. Instead of an online subscription, the library subscribes to the print version of these journals, which you can find on the 2nd floor of the library.

Streaming Video Databases

Use the Google Chrome browser to stream videos
Feature Films can only be watched from a laptop or desktop computer
Films on Demand can be embedded into Canvas but can't be embedded in Microsoft PowerPoint

Films on Demand
Films Media Group is the leading source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content. Films Media Group serves the education community through its four brands: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Films on Demand Feature Films for Education
Collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles for educational instructional purposes, including literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, Academy Award winners, and more.

New titles added quarterly. More that 20 popular film genres. Mouse-over effect displays brief description and page tools to save, share and embed links. Filter by MPAA rating, genre and copyright.
Films on Demand Newsreels and Archives Collection
Educators count on Cambridge to provide outstanding media resources that support the development of the whole student, both in and out of the classroom. Cambridge programs provide a practical, accurate, and reliable foundation of knowledge that helps students think through opportunities and choices and reach their potential at school, in work, and in life.

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