LibGuides: NUTR 10 Pecchenino: Where Do I Find Scholarly Articles?

Narrowing Health Topics to Find Scholarly Literature

One way narrow a broad topic from the health sciences is to add a specific population, intervention (treatment)*, or health outcome.

Before: gluten-free diets
After: How effective is a gluten-free diet on the gastrointestinal symptoms of adults with celiac disease?

*In the above example, a gluten-free diet is an intervention/treatment for people with celiac disease.

Suggested 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.
MEDLINE
Resource for authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences created by the National Library of Medicine
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.

Scholarly Articles - Good for Finding Results of Research Studies

What you learn from your background research may spark an idea for a more specific investigation in the scholarly research. Since most scholarship tries to measure a concept in relationship to another concept, you will want to search for your topic in relationship to something else. To find scholarly articles, the library has a number of databases that have this kind of content.

For example, if you want to learn about the effect of a gluten-free diet on the gastrointestinal symptoms of adults with celiac disease, you will want to find scholarly articles.