Want to find more MeSH terms for nutrition? Search in the National Library of Medicine classification index. Armed with your MeSH term, go to the Lister Hill Library catalog, type the MeSH term into the search box next to “Subject keyword” to bring up all the results with that MeSH term. When I type in “nutrition,” I have 538 results. Some of the newest books include:

• Nutrition Therapy and Pathophisiology (2016) – eBook
• Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics (2016) – eBook
• Diet and Nutrition in Dementia and Cognitive Decline (2015) – eBook
• Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease (2014) – eBook
• Pediatric Nutrition Care Manual (2010) – eBook

Notice that all of these books are in e-book format. Our recent books are being purchased in electronic format as it is more convenient for most of our patrons and serves our distance students very well.

Journals

UAB Libraries subscribe to a great variety of nutrition journals. They include:

• Journal of Medical Nutrition & Nutraceuticals
• Nutritional Therapy and Metabolism
• Clinical Nutrition. Supplements
• Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
• Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Besides the subscription journals, you will find many open access journals in the subject area of nutrition. Open access journals are freely available on the web and include:

• Clinical Nutrition Research
• Nutrition & Diabetes
• Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism
• Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition

If you want to search within one particular journal, you can use the search box on the library homepage set to the “e-journals” tab. Search for the journal, enter the journal holdings through one of the listed databases that holds the full text, and search or browse within that journal.

Databases

Usually most of us search for articles, not within one particular journal, but in a database that indexes many journals. You are all familiar with PubMed, but did you know that you can search within the PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset which limits your search result set to citations from the literature about vitamins, minerals, phytochemical, ergogenic, botanical, and herbal supplements within the study of nutrition.

You may be interested in other databases besides PubMed. In the library’s databases page, you can narrow the database selection by choosing the category “nutrition.” A variety of electronic resources and databases are listed on the nutrition databases page. For example, there are links to CINAHL, Alt Healthwatch, PsycINFO, Scopus, and more. Natural Medicines database is a reference resource that lets you search for dietary supplements and natural medicines by scientific, common, or brand name. Each entry gives information about safety, effectiveness, dosing & administration, adverse effects, toxicology, drug interactions, disease interactions, etc. and provides a table of the evidence summary of studies and a list of those studies.

Additionally on the nutrition databases page there are links to several nutrition manuals: Nutrition Terminology Reference Manual, Nutrition Care Manual, and Pediatric Nutrition Care Manual. Find more eBooks for nutrition by clicking on the link for R2 Digital Library on the databases page. The opening page of this eBook collection allows you to browse by discipline. The “Nutrition and Dietetics” category has 23 titles.

If you do not see the resource you need in the library collection, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan. If you have suggestions for additional titles to purchase for the library collection, please let me know and I will add them to the purchase wish list.