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Agricultural Sciences & Technology Subject Guide

Food Allergies and Allergens
Information Resources for Food and Nutrition 229
Spring 2008
 
Contents:
Finding Books
Finding Articles etc.
    · Full-Text Journal Collections
Food Composition & Nutrition
Scholarly and Science Web Search Engines
Citing Your Sources
Need More Help?

Finding Books

Library Catalog
Search the Library catalog to find books, journal titles (not articles), and other material in the Madden Library.
Keyword Searching (to search some "key" words in the title, author, and/or subjects)
    for example:   price supports and dairy
Use * for alternate word endings:
    e.g., diet* retrieves diet, diets, dietary, etc.
Use the pull-down menu to specify subjects, titles or authors.
    e.g., title dietary reference intakes

To search for Fresno State theses:
search by keyword for: thesis fresno [word from department name]
e.g.,   thesis fresno animal
Finding Articles etc.
The Library might have the articles and books you find through these indexes that are not full-text:
Journal Articles
    · Follow the Madden ArtlcleLink that appears in the 1st two databases listed below.
    · If Madden ArticleLink doesn't find it, check the title of the journal in the Journals List.
Books
    · If the MaddenArticleLink doesn't work, check the book title in the library catalog
    · If you don't find a government publication in the catalog, ask at the Maps & Government Information desk on the 2nd floor.
If the Library doesn't have it
    · Request the item via our Interlibrary Loan service.

Academic Search Premier
Off-campus connection requires login.
Index to news magazines and scholarly journals in a wide variety of subjects.
· Use and between search terms unless you want to search a phrase
  e.g. child* and obesity and nutrition
· Use *   for alternate word endings
· Limit your search to the scholarly journals by checking the box: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals

Agricola   (1970-     )
Off-campus connection requires login.
National Agricultural Library's database indexing journals, book chapters, government publications, etc.
· Use and between search terms unless you want to search a phrase
  e.g. gardening and nutrition
· Use * for alternate word endings

CAB Abstracts (1973-   )
Off-campus connection requires login.
International coverage of academic books, peer-reviewed journals, technical reports, bulletins and conference proceedings on topics related to agricultural economics, natural resources conservation and management, agriculture, food science, nutrition, recreation and tourism.
· Click on CAB Abstracts, then on Search to select the database.
· Use and between search terms unless you want to search a phrase
· Use * for alternate word endings

CINAHL Plus  (1982-    )
Off-campus connection requires login.
Nursing and allied health literature.

PubMed
U.S. National Library of Medicine database that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to some open-source full text articles and other related resources.
· Does NOT automatically have Madden LibraryLinks to our journal databases and catalog. To set this up:
  1.   Register, then sign in to your own NCBI account
  2.   Click on My NCBI
  3.   Click on Outside Tool (under My NCBI Resources)
  4.   Select California State University Fresno
This selection stays with your account until you change it.

ERIC   (1966-     )
Off-campus connection requires login.
Education-related literature.

SPORTDiscus  (1982-    )
Off-campus connection requires login.
Includes sports nutrition.

Annual Bibliographies of Significant Advances in Dietary Supplement Research National Institutes of Health

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
Journal article citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific literature on dietary supplements. Contains citations also found in AGRIS International, AGRICOLA, MEDLINE, and selected nutrition journals from CAB Abstracts and CAB Health.
· Madden ArticleLink does not work from this database: check the journal titles in our Journals List.
Full-Text Journal Collections
The indexing databases above should include citations and links to most of the content in these full-text journal databases.
ScienceDirect Elsevier
Off-campus connection requires login.
You can restrict your searches to just journal articles, and to the Agricultural and Biological Sciences or Nursing and Health Professions.

JSTOR Journal Collection Scholarly Journal Archive
Off-campus connection requires login.
Browse or search full text of journals in the collection. In Advanced Search, you can focus your search on a discipline or specific journals.

Kluwer Journals via Springer Link
Off-campus connection requires login.
You can restrict your searches to journals in the Life Sciences, and then to more focused areas.

Wiley Interscience
Off-campus connection requires login.
You can restrict you searches to just journal articles, and to the Life Sciences.
Food Composition and Nutrition

Dietary Guidelines for Americans
"The Guidelines provide authoritative advice for people two years and older about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases. They serve as the basis for Federal food and nutrition education programs. "

Food and Nutrition Information Center USDA National Agricultural Library
· Dietary Guidance topics including USDA Food Guide Pyramid Resources
· Lifecycle Nutrition

Nutritive Value of Foods Revised Oct. 2002
Nutritive values of household measures of commonly used foods.
Government Information US, A 1.77:72/2002

Nutrient Data Laboratory USDA, Agricultural Research Service
· USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
  Food composition data.
· Other Data Sets
· Food Composition and Nutrition Links

Office of Dietary Supplements National Institutes of Health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Includes information on nutrition and food saftey.
· Data and Statistics
Scholarly and Science Web Search Engines

MedlinePlus
Presents up-to-date health care information, selected by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, for use by health care consumers and health professionals.

Nutrition.gov
Food and nutrition information from across the federal government.

Science.gov
A unified search of the government’s vast stores of scientific and technical information., Science.gov allows users to search the surface web as well as the deep web, where traditional search engines cannot go. Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 16 U.S. government science organizations within 12 Federal agencies.

Scirus.com Science Specific Search Engine
In the Advanced Search you can restrict your results by type of resource and subject (Agricultural and Biological Sciences)

Google Scholar
Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
· In Advanced Search you can restrict your search to Biology, Life Sciences, and Environmental Science.
· Add California State University Fresno, Henry Madden Library to the Library Links form in Scholar Preferences to link into our subscription databases for access to the text of journal articles.
Citing Your Sources

Citation Style Guides Auburn University Libraries

Guides to Citing Government Publications
Need More Help?

I am your Agricultural Sciences & Technology librarian. Feel free to email me: carol_doyle@csufresno.edu. However, since I am not always here to answer quickly:
    · Ask a librarian at the main reference desk in UC123, 278-2174.
Revised 11 September 2008        
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