Subject guides: Nutrition: Essential

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Key Resources

The best way to find articles on a topic is to search databases. This list contains some of the core databases that you will use when conducting research in nutrition and dietetics.

Medline via OvidSP (1946 - present)
The U.S. National Library of Medicine´s premier database covering the medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the preclinical sciences, health administration, and the health care system.

For the most up-to-date references also check PREMEDLINE. This is the in-process database for Medline; new references are added daily. It provides basic information and abstracts before a record is indexed (ie. given subject headings) and added to MEDLINE.

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Medline Reload News
Embase via OvidSP (1947 - present)
A major pharmacological, biomedical and drug information database - the European equivalent of Medline.

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CINAHL Complete
Journal database for nursing and allied health, biomedicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship, behavioral sciences, management, and education

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Cochrane Library
Cochrane’s collection of databases includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, CENTRAL, and Cochrane Clinical Answers.

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Introduction to Cochrane (3 mins)
Web of Science Core Collections
Contains Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975. Identify key articles in a discipline and search by cited reference, (trace references that refer to a particular work or author).

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