Food and Nutrition Databases
(see also
Health Sciences - Articles,
Health Sciences - Reference Books, and
Nursing and Allied Health
[Indexes]
[Online Books]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- CINAHL
Plus with Full Text (Ebsco)
 
- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing, biomedicine, health
sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and
17 other allied health disciplines, with indexing back to 1937, as well as the full text
337 of journals (some going back to 1937) plus legal cases, clinical innovations,
critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials.
Includes Pre-CINAHL, with the newest journal articles that are in the process of being indexed, and
CINAHL Select, with the full text of an additional 170 journals.
Also indexes health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings,
standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, and more. Includes
searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals.
- InfoTrac
Nursing and Allied Health Collection (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
 
- Provides the full text of over 300 journals, magazines, and newsletters.
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
- Benders'
Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Cambridge
World History of Food (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers the full spectrum of foods that have been hunted, gathered,
cultivated, and domesticated from prehistoric times to the present, offering a geographical
perspective on the history and culture of food and drink. Includes nutritional makeup,
prejudices, fads, taboos, policy issues, toxins, additives, labeling, entitlements, impact
on cultures & demography, brief histories of over 1000 plant foods, and much more.
- Cambridge
World History of Food (Credo/xrefer)
- Encapsulates the history of food and nutrition from prehistoric times to the food-related
policy issues of today. Covers the full spectrum of foods that have been hunted, gathered, cultivated,
& domesticated; their nutritional makeup & uses; and their impact on cultures &
demography as well as geographical perspectives, plants, fads, prejudices, taboos, toxins,
additives, labeling, and entitlements.
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more.
- Note: to use ebrary, you must first download and install the
ebrary Reader on your computer (more information).
- Encyclopedia
of Food and Culture (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Presents 600 articles on food and its place in human
culture and society, covering everything from agronomy to zucchini. Students,
academics, and general researchers will find entries on everything from food
preparation, distribution, and storage to holidays and festivals, nutrition and
health, and cultures and cuisines. Entries range from 250 to 10,000 words
each and are supplemented by 400 photographs and illustrations, sidebars,
recipes, menus, timelines, and a comprehensive index.
- International
Dictionary of Food and Cooking, Peter Collin Publishing (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Mosby's
Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- New
Food Lover's Companion, Barron's (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- New
Wine Lover's Companion, Barron's (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Nutrition
and Well-Being A to Z
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Oddbins
Dictionary of Wine (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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