Guides: Applied Human Nutrition: Articles & Journals

Systematic Reviews and Research Collections

PEN (Practice-Based Evidence in Nutrition)
"Your nutrition knowledge destination". Timely, current and authoritative guidance that answers the day-to-day questions encountered in practice of dietitians in all settings. 5 simultaneous users only - please log out when done.
Cochrane Library: Evidence for Healthcare Decision-Making (Wiley)
Cochrane Systematic Reviews investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in a healthcare setting. Often includes summaries of clinical trials.

Cochrane Library via Libraries Nova Scotia
The Cochrane Library is also accessible for the Halifax Public Library website. All you need is the barcode number on your public library borrowing card.

Trip Database
Trip (Turning Research into Practice) is a clinical search engine for health related research evidence, images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

Health Evidence
Hosted by McMaster University, Health Evidence provides access to 3,411 quality-rated systematic reviews evaluating the effectiveness of public health interventions. Links are provided to articles in open-access journals and all articles hosted in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Registration is free.
WHO e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions
An online library of evidence-informed guidelines for an expanding list of nutrition interventions.

Novanet LiveHelp

An online chat-based reference service provided by Novanet libraries.

Science & Nutrition Databases

(Note: Also see Multidisciplinary Databases below.)

CINAHL Plus
CINAHL Plus provides coverage for thousands of journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, including nutrition. It covers nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and dozens of allied health disciplines.
Medline (EBSCO)
A sub-set of PubMed; 4,600 biomedical journals indexed/abstracted, with links to full-text in Academic Search Premier.
PubMed
Over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and the biomedical and life sciences literature dating back to the 1950's. PubMed includes links to some sites providing full text.

New PubMed interface video
In May 2020 PubMed changed its interface. This video reviews the changes and provide a great introduction to searching the database.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
8000 journals indexed/abstracted (4600 full-text) in various disciplines
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
8,060 journals of which 7,608 are full-text and 1,112 are full-text and peer-reviewed. Full-text also provided for industry and market research reports.
PEN (Practice-Based Evidence in Nutrition)
"Your nutrition knowledge destination". Timely, current and authoritative guidance that answers the day-to-day questions encountered in practice of dietitians in all settings. 5 simultaneous users only - please log out when done.
Science Direct (CRKN - Elsevier)
1800 full-text multi-disciplinary (but mostly science) journals published by Elsevier.
Agricola (National Agricultural Library)
Open access index to resources in the field of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals (CRKN)
Full-text access to 47 key chemistry journals.

Multidisciplinary Databases

PsycINFO (EBSCO)
2000 international psychology journals, books, chapters, dissertations indexed/abstracted, links to full-text in ASP & PsychArticles. Useful for researching health and eating behaviours.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
8,060 journals indexed/abstracted of which 7,608 are full text and 1,112 are full text and peer-reviewed. Full text is also provided for industry and market research reports including SWOT analysis.
Ageline (EBSCO)
300 journals on gerontology indexed/abstracted
Education Research Complete (EBSCO)
Coverage spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education.
ERIC (EBSCO)
980 education journals and 2200 digests indexed/abstracted, links to full-text in ASP and ERIC Documents (EDRS). Useful for nutrition in schools and daycares.
Child Development & Adolescent Studies (EBSCO)
Hundreds of journals indexed/abstracted related to the growth and development of children, links to full-text in ASP.
Gender Studies Database (EBSCO)
Combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases. Hundreds of journals indexed/abstracted related to women’s studies, sexual diversity, men’s studies; links to full-text in ASP.
CBCA Complete (ProQuest)
With over 4.5 million records and more than 1,680 titles, CBCA Complete is ideal for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and education as produced in Canada. Includes 640 full-text periodicals and daily news sources (over 480 of which are Canadian), plus indexing to an additional 1,100 other titles (over 95% Canadian). Updated daily with full-text content (1985 to present) and bibliographic content (1971 to present).
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
A collection of articles from over 5,100 scholarly and scientific journals 25 of which are in the field of nutrition and food science.
Taylor & Francis: Social Sciences and Humanities Collection (CRKN)
A collection of 662 electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences, pubished by Taylor and Francis.

New PubMed interface video

New PubMed interface video
In May 2020 PubMed changed its interface. This video reviews the changes and provide a great introduction to searching the database.

Getting started with MeSH in PubMed, MedLine and CINAHL

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) database
MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed. These are the standard terms to search on when available.
Video: How to locate MeSH terms in the PubMed database
Video: Searching EBSCO's MedLine and CINAHL using MeSH terms

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Google Scholar

Citation Indexes

These indexes allow you to find articles which have cited a particular work. You can think of it as a reference list in reverse: if you have a paper originally published in 2008 you can find out who has cited it since then.

Google Scholar
The “Cited by” feature allows you to see details of later articles that have cited the original article.
Google Scholar provides citations (publication details) of books, conference proceedings, journal articles and theses from a variety of scholarly publishers, societies, organizations and research databases.

Journal Title Abbreviations

The National Library of Medicine's catalogue of journals included in PubMed databases.

Search for journal title abbreviations

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