Research Guides: Nutrition and Food Science Information Resources: Find Articles

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Review Articles

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Nutrition Research Reviews
Published semiannually by Cambridge University Press. Available online.
Nutrition Reviews
Published Monthly by the Nutrition Foundation.. Available online.
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
Twenty-two issues a year. Available online.

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AGRICOLA (ProQuest)
Agricola covers all aspects of agriculture including: agriculture, agronomy, biology, chemistry, crop management, ecology, feed science, fertilizers, food and nutrition, and more. Agricola contains citations to over 3.7 million records, both in English and non-English.
BIOSIS Previews (Web of Science)
A comprehensive index to life science and biomedical research.
CAB Abstracts
CAB Abstracts, a subset of CAB Direct, is a comprehensive database in the applied life sciences, covering the significant research and development literature in agriculture, animal and veterinary sciences, environmental sciences, human health, food and nutrition, leisure and tourism, microbiology and parasitology and plant sciences.
MEDLINE
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature.
OECD iLibrary
OECD iLibrary is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) online library of statistical databases, books, and periodicals. It parallels the print output of this international governmental organization (IGO) whose publications and statistical output represent the roughly 30-member nation states which share a commitment to democratic government and the market economy and which form this IGO.
PubMed
A service of the US National Library of Medicine®, it provides access to MEDLINE®, the NLM® database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and pre-clinical sciences journal articles. It offers access to full-text articles on food science and nutrition.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect, the full-text sciences periodicals database from Elsevier, contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. More than 2,500 journals are available on ScienceDirect and Rutgers University Libraries subscribe to over 1,500 of these titles.
SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar contains literature of chemistry including journal articles, patents, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, technical reports and government documents etc.

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Access to SciFinder is limited to current faculty or administrative staff members officially registered students or formally affiliated visiting scholars or researchers of the university.
Scopus
Scopus, a multidisciplinary database, contains over 50 million records in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage strongest in the physical sciences.

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Other Useful Databases

AGRICOLA
This is a free version of AGRICOLA. the catalog of the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (the NAL Catalog). Use this database to access the NAL's collection of 3 million items, including books and journal articles, which cover all aspects of agriculture, food, food science, food chemistry and related sciences.
Dietary Supplements Labels Database (DSLD)
(National Institutes of Health; U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Within the DSLD you can search for products either in the market (DSLD On Market), off the market (DSLD Off Market), or consumed by National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey participants in the latest survey in the DSLD database (NHANES)
Dr. Duke's Phytochemical & Ethnobotanical Databases
(National Agricultural Library)
These databases contain information on the activity of chemicals in plants, and ethnobotanical uses for plants.

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Download the database from NAL's Ag Data Commons
FAOSTAT Food and Agriculture Data
FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available.

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We include a guide to using FAOStat in our Agriculture LibGuide
FooDB
FooDB is the world’s largest and most comprehensive resource on food constituents, chemistry and biology. It provides information on both macronutrients and micronutrients, including many of the constituents that give foods their flavor, color, taste, texture and aroma.
USDA FoodData Central
"An integrated data system that provides expanded nutrient profile data and links to related agricultural and experimental research."

Nutrition and Food Science Information Resources: Find Articles