Applied nutrition
Food and food science
SEARCH
General subjects
Medicine, Medline
Nutrition subjects
Nutrition products
Food tables
Nutrition research
Gophers
Lists of nutrition resources
Government and nutrition
Mailing lists, news groups
Nutrition at University
Nutrition at Hospital
Other organisations
SEARCHING FOR
GENERAL and MEDICAL SUBJECTS
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How to search on the Internet
- An excellent guide written for normal people (not just computer
magazine devotees!) explaining which search engine to use, depending on what your needs are.
Written for school kids doing research on projects from Nueva Library,
- Alta Vista
- One
of the best search engines. Allows Boolean searching (including advanced search
option).
- SavvySearch
- Multiple search engines combined into one.
- Menagerie of general search
engines!
- The Blonz web site has search entry forms right on screen for a
goodly collection of the very many general Internet search engines available these
days.
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SEARCHING FOR NUTRITION
SUBJECTS
- General nutrition
searching
- Miscellaneous and specific
nutrition-related searching
General nutrition
searching
Sleuth Internet
search
Offers a variety of search engines focussed on nutritional
topics.
Food and Nutrition Information
Center (NALUSDA): search engine
Search for information from FNIC's own collection.
WebMedLit
This is a great service! Based on abstracts from 18 mainstream
medical journals coupled to an Excite search engine, it allows you to gain an overview of
important recent research papers on a regular basis in whichever area interests you.
PEN gopher
search
The Penn State University gopher.
An extensive collection of text documents, including the International Food and Nutrition
Database,
containing newsletters, fact sheets, bibliographies, research summaries,
and other nutrition-related materials. Searchable by subject or keyword.
FDA search
Search the FDA's web server for
nutrition documents.
Not all FDA web pages are available from here, but others can be sourced
at : http://www.fda.gov/search.html.
AGRICOLA
gopher search
AGRICOLA is a gigantic agricultural
data base under the wing of the USDA and has over 3 million data entries.
One Globe: Agriculture Business
Directory: search engine
Search for keywords under various industry classifications
(producers, consultants, vets etc).
CDC WONDER
Need to register first (and reregister if not used for a week). Search
individual CDC data
bases, but no overall search engine. None are specifically nutritional. "Single point of access to a
variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and even
numeric public health data". Also list of health links.
Fnspec
archive
Very useful access to recent postings on this mailing list, the
primary one for extension nutrition specialists in the US. Can search (at present one month's
worth) by thread, by subject, by date or by author.
USDA's School Meal Initiative
for Healthy Children
USDA initiative with information on school meals program in the
US.. This page has search engines for school meals-related data bases, information about the
national program. There is also a
gopher site .
ELFIS:
German agric.science literature search
German agricultural science literature data bank search
engine.
Texas Agricultural Univerity:
Human Nutrition articles (search engine)
Articles from variety of sources, some lay some health
professional, some quite old. Search engine with simple Boolean terms.
Arizona
Dietetic Project Search
Search within Arizona Dietetic Project, which is mostly
lay information on diet, (but has some clinical nutrition links).
Miscellaneous and specific
nutrition-related searching
See also: under various specific main sections (e.g. nutrition
at university, food industry etc.) in the their lists sub-sections.
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Academic Press Quick Search Page
- Search by title, author, abstract and keyword fields of all the
journals published by Academic Press which they have put abstracts on-line.
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Elsevier journals search engine,
- There are lots of food, food science and some nutrition journals in
this stable. The search engine only returns the TOC without any abstracts at present from 1996,
and you cannot confine the search to a particular journal.
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ADA: search for a dietitian
- Search for a registered dietitian in the USA, based on area, type of
service etc.
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Beaucoup search engine
collection
- Actually they include subject lists along with search engines and
there is more medical than nutrition. In regard to nutrition, the collection is pretty
modest.
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BUBL
- Library resource with gopher searchable data base of academic
journal tables of contents
and some abstracts, including J Nutrition for Elderly, J. Nutrition in
Recipe & Menu
Development, Home Health Care Services Quarterly, J of
Nutritional Immunology, J. Food
Products Marketing, J of Applied Aquaculture etc.
- Chapman
& Hall Nutrition Resource Center
- Searchable list of nutrition texts.
- Environmental Organization WebDirectory
- Search engine and category listings generally around the alternative,
organic, vegetarian area.
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Food Additive search (Australia)
- Search for information on food additives by coding number or
name.
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FoodNet: food service, food news
- "This service enables you to search current food news and the
FoodNet database." Food service and food consumer focus.
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Food Scientists on the
Web
- "An unoffical Internet directory to the personal homepages of food
scientists. " At present (1/97) around 50 listings.
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Food service
directory (Provisions)
- Searchable data base of food service industry sites on the Internet
and a separate one of food and beverage industry professionals.
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Healthy.Net: Health food
products: search engine from Healthy Net
- Search for vitamin and other health food store product listings.
Returns brands and prices. Not clear whether this is just from one health store company or a
wider range.
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Nutritional Dictionary
- From an orthomolecular company, brief definitions of common
nutritional terms relevant to that area.
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TEKTRAN data base of
agricultural research (USDA)
- USDA's Agricultural Research Service has produced TEKTRAN, a
searchable DB to
assist fast tracking commercial awareness of basic research into agricultural and (mainly animal)
nutrition.
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Univ.of Minnesota site search
engine
- An experimental search engine which searches for resources
generated by themselves at this leading Internet site for on-line nutrition extension. In their own
words, their intent is: "..to have faculty and graduate students provide current information and
resources to the public about food science and nutrition. The interface is crude and there is little
in the database, BUT, we intend to help this resource grow."
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See also Medline searching section.
- USDA
Research data base
- Data base of USDA research
projects.
Search by keyword,
and can refine search according to individual research areas.
- Search NIH WEB-SPACE: Query FORM
- Specialised search engine for NIH documents, including
preventive medicine, basic research etc.
- NIH
grants: search engine
- Many NIH grants have nutrition
themes. This search form allows many options for searching, but can also take simple default
topic searches.
- The National Association of
GCRC Research Dietitians Home Page
- "Organization dedicated to promoting the health of the nation
through the pursuit of
clinical research." Grant information is searchable, but not by subject.
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Tufts/USDA Human
Nutrition Center on Aging: document search
- Search for citation of documents from research projects at Jean
Mayer USDA Human
Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. The Scientific Publications
Database can be searched by department and author, not subject.
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LISTS OF NUTRITION
RESOURCES
Pick of the
bunch!
- In alphabetical rather than merit order!
- Blonz Guide to nutrition resources
- The author is a major figure in lay nutrition publication in the
US. This is a large, regularly updated, mixed collection of food, nutrition, and more general
health and medical links, with a lot of effort put into the visual aspects of the web pages. The
links do not have commentary. There is an excellent search engine collection.
- CSIRO:
Dpt. Food Science and Technology
- A long list of nutrition resources,
with some descriptions. Particularly strong on university food science departments,
food law and safety, the food industry, and a useful resource for Australian food sites.
- Dietitian On-line
- Based in Ireland, the two authors (a paediatrician and a dietitian)
have put enormous effort into this site which is one of the most elaborately designed visually of
all the nutrition web guides. The list of other nutrition sites is not annotated and is alphabetically
presented. The links have become a less prominent feature now that they have stregthened their
focus onto providing various on-line services for dietitians and dietetic students.
- Food and Nutrition Information Center:
Index of Food and Nutrition Internet Resources
- Very good hyperlinked list from library at USDA, well classified
but not annotated. Also at: http://www.nalusda
.gov/answers/info_centers/fnic/fnic-etexts.html (This hyperlinked list replaces the old
Electronic
Sources of Nutrition Information plain text article.)
- Laura
Larson's list of nutrition information on the Internet
- Quite a long list of nutrition resources, especially
those relevant to public health, with comments.
- Martindale:
nutrition resources
- Extensive collection of links with brief descriptions of content.
The organisation of the site is unusual, and there is a good deal of medical content not directly
related to nutrition. The nutrition topics include nutrition courses, university departments,
dictionaries and multi-media. There are good links to plant genetics and toxicology
sites.links.
- D.McKinnon's
list of food science sites
- One of the best lists for food science,
quite a lot of description and very strong on food science departments and
organisations.
- Nutrición Humana
- A good set of links and resources relevant to Mexico, categorised
by the type of Internet source that the material comes from (web pages, FTP, news groups etc).
Within categories, items are offered in alphabetical order without commentary. It helps if you can
understand Spanish, as this is tje language in which it is
written!
For more nutrition links in Spanish, see Tlahui nutrition
links
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Lists from the
mainstream Internet searchers
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Yahoo
- Yahoo is one of the main searchable
general content Internet directories in the world, but it is not particularly strong on
nutrition.
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LookSmart
- Go to Health & Fitness: Diet &Nutrition for a
reasonable selection of nutrition sites under various categories, with site descriptions. Although
Looksmart is a general subject catalogue rather than a nutrition one, is is well
worth looking at just for its extraordinarily clever use of java scripting technology to make the
search process easy.
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Galaxy
- Several ways to access the nutrition lists, which are moderate in
length but unannotated and not particularly systematic in coverage. You can get a short list from
here, or go to
a higher level inde
x level , or via
Dietetics and Community
health
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Lists from
universities and organisations
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Arizona Health Sciences Library
- Their nutrition guide has resources
listed by subject and by media
type.
- The Arizona
Dietetic Project
- Mixture of nutrition and medical
links, organised into public, medical and other professional categories. "The mission
of the ADP is to provide accurate and timely information on the use of nutrition
as medical therapy...Links to sites providing related materials; original
materials to be added as available".
- Clements
Library Nutrition links
- St.Johns University, Minnesota. Moderate collection of
links.
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Directory of Nutrition booklets (CSIRO,
Australia)
- Hyperlinked list of organisations that put out nutrition pamphlets.
"The purpose .. is to provide a list of "reputable organisations that produce books, pamphlets and
other
resources about food, nutrition, safe food handling practices and health. "
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Colorado State Uni:
"CyberMenu"
- Interesting project, with annotated listings. "This site is the
beginning of a very ambitious nutrition links management program and web-based nutrition
education program offered by the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado
State
University. The purpose of this new site is to provide a variety of different methods of viewing
nutrition links. In the near future individuals from around the world will be able to submit their
favorite URL and have it published within one week. All URLs will be cross-referenced and
presented in a variety of groupings."
- Giessen University list
- In German.
- Kansas
State Extension list
- Classified into lifespan cycle,clinical, exercise, vegetarianism,
nutrient profiles etc. See also excellent annotated list of Extension resources
throughout the US.
- MedWeb:
Nutrition
- Categorised into guides, sites, data bases, with moderate set of urls
for each.
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University of
Minnesota: sites of interest
- The Department of Food Science and
Nutrition at University
of Minnesota has one of the stronger Internet presences in nutrition. Their
home page contains lots of useful nutrition links, particularly in extension
and food science. The information is not particularly well organised, however.
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NALUSDA
Nat.Agric.Library: Electronic Sources of Food and Nutrition Information
- Rebecca Thompson wrote this document several years ago as a
long and
librarian-oriented plain text paper on the impact of computer age technology on nutrition
resources. It is now showing its age (last updated 9/94) and is strong on gopher, bulletin board
and data base sites.
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Oregon
University Nutrition Resources
- Moderately length list of web sites,
with some annotation.
Particularly strong on commercial food companies.
- San
Jose University: list of nutrition links.
- Compiled by Edith Crowe, Nutrition & Food Science
librarian, San Jose State University. "..some basic sites that are
good starting points for exploring the Internet in the areas of Nutrition,
Food Science and Hospitality Management".
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St.Joseph's University: list of nutrition resources
- Short list only.
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Syracuse University:
(College for Human Development)
- Quite reasonable list of nutrition and particularly food links. Not
annotated.
- Virginia
Polytechnic nutrition resources list
- Quite a good annotated list, divided into US, international,
UN, newsletters, subject listings.
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Commercial
nutrition resource lists
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Linkstar: commercial products search engine
- Try entering nutrition into their search page and you will get a long
list of commercial nutrition products, many of them with a supplement or alternative
flavour.
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Autonomy Vitamin and
Nutrition Links on the Web
- Particularly useful list of commercial nutrition entities.
- Healthstore
search
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Oregon
University Nutrition Resources
- Moderately length list of web sites,
with some annotation, but particular strong point is commercial food companies.
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Individual and
other lists
- Dietetics Online
- From the Dietitian On-Line AOL forum home page, some
selective and useful links to professional. international and computer software nutrition resources.
Not annotated.
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Nerd World :
NUTRITION
- Part of a much larger Internet directory. The nutrition section has a
reasonably long
list in alphabetical order but it is not clear what logic went into the choice and whilst
annotated, the descriptions appear to be self generated (e.g. aka Alta Vista).
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Nutrition
links - WAIS search :
- Someone (from New Jersey) has done a broad nutrition WAIS
search and these are the results! Turns out to be an interesting, eclectic but rather unorganised list
of resources without annotation. A number are no longer reachable either.
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`Autonomy' Vitamin and
Nutrition Links on the Web
- Long list of (mainly US-based) commercial nutrition
entities.
- Nutri
Link!
- Dietetic student has set up a site to encourage participation
from others to put up: "stories, columns and pictures via e-mail.
These pages will be updated once per month. Selected contributions will
be published on this site."
- The
Nutrition Expert
- "The Nutrition Expert, is a
group of Registered
dietitians dedicated to providing high quality nutrition information to
the web community." At present not a lot of material, some links, some
patient information.
- Welltech:
Nutrition links
- Small but annotated list.
- University of Akron's list of
nutrition sites
- Moderate number of nutrition resources listed under "academic",
"governement..." etc.
- Lifelines Nutrition & Fitness
Links
- Gets LOTS of visitors, for a fairly eclectic mix of nutrition
resources.
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Tlahui nutrition
links
- Mexican and other nutrition links. Unannotated and in Spanish. Also to
be found at
http://www.cam.org/~tlahuic/menutri
.html#nutri
- Everything Dietetics
- Maintained by Jeremy Smith (a dietitian who works at a military
hospital in Kentucky). He has provided a small set of links to sites of particular interest to
dietitians, food industry and sports nutrition.
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Tom's Nutrition Home
Page
- A US dietitian who offers to answer on-line questions about
nutrition, has a nutrition tup of the week and some links.
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NUTRITION MAILING LISTS,
NEWS GROUPS
- Tony
Helman's catalogue of Nutrition mailing lists
- A fairly comprehensive catalogue of
mailing lists for nutrition professionals. It does not deal with mailing lists for the public, nor with
bulletin boards.
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Dietitian Online:
mailing lists, newsgroups
- Mainly food and food science
discussion groups.
- Tile: Food-related mailing lists
- Main list lacks descriptions, but a short description is accessible in
an associated file.
- Arizona
Health Sci. Libr.: nutrition discussion groups
- Short list.
- One Globe: Agricultural
mailing lists and usenet groups
- Good set of agricultural mailing lists and some news groups
(including meat and dairy ones). Not always much descriptive detail.
- Fnspec
archive
- Archive for postings of the primary mailing list for extension
nutrition specialists in the US.
- Pedi-rd mailing
list
- "Pedi-RD is an e-mail mailing list for dietitians and other health
care professionals
interested in neonatal/perinatal and pediatric nutrition" Another new mailing list is
NS-net, which
is related to nutrition support and parenteral nutrition. Its home page is at
http://www.uihc.uiowa.edu/pubinfo/ns
-net.htm
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Pediatric Nutrition On-line
- On-line bulletin board for healthcare professionals working with
children and their nutritional needs. Uses special software to access the bulletin board, which is
provided at the site as well.
- Arizona
Library: list of nutrition bulletin boards
- Only three entries! .
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NUTRITION
GOPHERS
- USDA:
gopher
- Starting point for all USDA gophers.
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NALUSDA (library of
USDA) gopher
- An enormous amount of plain text
material, of variable nature, currency and quality, but well worth a look.
- Cornell
University nutrition gopher
- Large amount of nutrition material,
but no search
engine.
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Illinois
University gopher
- Lots of lay and other documents on food and nutrition
- Penn
State Nutrition gopher
- IFAN, FNIC, ADA material, but to
search it see under:
Nutrition Searching.
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School meals gopher (US)
- Information on school meals program in the US..
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