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Recommended Databases for Nutrition

Academic Search Premier
Multi-subject database; articles from journals & other publications. Covers business, education, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, politics, science, and technology.
AGRICOLA
AGRICOLA records are from the USDA's National Agricultural Library catalog. Find articles and books on all aspects of agriculture including Foods & Nutrition. Look for the "Find IT!" button or "Get full text" link after clicking on the title of the desired article.
Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature in specific scientific subject areas, identifies principal contributions, and offers critical reviews on these research contributions. Articles are written by recognized experts. CPP Library has access to the Annual Review of Nutrition, Annual Review of Biochemistry, and more. Quick Tip: Use Advanced search to search relevant volumes.
Biological Abstracts
Journal articles in the life sciences and biomedical research.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health)
Covers fields of nursing and allied health.
Ethnic Diversity Source
Ethnic Diversity Source provides 465 full-text, peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers; over 4,500 e-books; biographies; and over 6,300 primary source documents covering the lived experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinx Americans, Native Americans, and other ethnic groups. NOTE: Access available through June 2024.
Food Library
Bloomsbury Food Library contains global coverage of the history of food, food cultures, food safety, food ethics, and other topics related to food in the form of reference works, e-books, images, and other primary resources.
ProQuest Databases
Search platform for a wide range of multi-disciplinary subject areas, including agriculture, alternative publications, biology, business, country reports, dissertations and theses, education, ethnic and gender issues, geosciences, historical Los Angeles Times and New York Times, literature, PTSD, sociology, and US and global news.
PubMed
Provides access to the Medline database and other biomedical sources. Medline is a worldwide Index to medical literature (including sports medicine) and supporting disciplines (including human nutrition and animal science). Look for the "Find IT!" button after clicking on the title of the desired article. For more details on searching PubMed, please refer to our PubMed Guide. Access the public version of PubMed here.
Scopus
Scopus is Elsevier's abstracting and indexing database that indexes content from thousands of scholarly books, journals, and conference proceedings over a wide range of disciplines. Scopus also provides access to detailed author profiles and analytical tools to compare journals, citation impact, and citation trends.
Web of Science Core Collection
Provides seamless access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Over 10,000 journals are indexed in this multidisciplinary database. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. 1991 to present. Read more about this resource or watch an introductory how-to video.

See other recommended databases for Nutrition at the Library's Databases page.

Recommended Journals

This is a sample list of peer-reviewed journals related to Nutrition research.

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Advances in Nutrition
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Annual Review of Nutrition
Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
The British Journal of Nutrition
Clinical Nutrition: Official Journal of the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN)
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
Current Developments in Nutrition
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
European Journal of Nutrition
Food Chemistry
Food Policy
International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Food Science
The Journal of Nutrition
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
Nutrition
Nutrition and Cancer
Nutrition Journal
Nutrition Research
Nutrition Research Reviews
Nutrition Reviews
Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Also See

Agriculture research guide
Guide to Agriculture Research in the Cal Poly Pomona Library. Covers Animal Science, Agribusiness & Food Industry Management, Agricultural Education, Food Science, Human Nutrition and Plant Science.