Subject Guide: Nutrition

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Databases

Academic Search Premier - This is a good place to begin research on any subject. Provides full text for more than 3,460 scholarly publications covering a number of academic areas.

Health & Wellness Resource Center - Instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference resources such as Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence, and PDR Family Guide to Health and Nutrition. Key health web sites are also listed here, as well as 2,200 general interest health publications, and over 400 health and medical journals. Reliable information can be found by searching under latest news, subject, or key words.

Health Reference Center: Academic - A full service resource for people needing health related research. It provides an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records are available in a combination of indexing, abstracts or full-text formats. Topics included in the collection include information about alcoholism, AIDS, fitness, psychology, cancer, pediatrics, and much more.

MEDLINE - Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts for over 4,000 current biomedical journals.

STAT!Ref - An electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search more than 35 medical resources such as Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, Mosby's Drug Consult®, the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult, and more.

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Internet Sites

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC) - recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships.

Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources - links to health related sites.

Health Web - guide to Internet resource in health and medicine.

Land of Medical Links - medical health sites, research tools, news and more.

MedWeb - directory of biomedical information on the net.

MyPyramid: http://www.pyramid.gov- USDA site offers users the chance to see how the food pyramid would work best for them.

National Guideline Clearinghouse - An Internet based comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related materials that have been submitted by 167 health care organizations, associations, medical societies and Federal agencies.

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Books and Journals

Books may be found using the library's online catalog. In the library, you can find books according to their classification number.

If you need help ask any of the librarians, technical staff or student assistant to assist you.

Library of Congress (LC) classifications for nutrition related books are:
QP
RA
RC
RM
TX

Online full-text journals are available. These journals are arranged by title.

Also, the library subscribes to periodicals in paper copy or microfiche. They are shelved or filed in alphabetical order according to title.

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