NST 135 : Guide to Library Research

• Finding Books
• Finding Articles
• Suggested Print Resources
• Suggested Web Sites
• Managing Your References/Evaluating Your Sources

Finding Books

Use a library catalog to find books, journals, magazines, government reports, maps, and other materials owned by the UCB libraries. Library catalogs usually do not index the individual articles within magazines and journals.

Catalog	Coverage	Unique Features
OskiCat OskiCat Quick Guide (PDF)	Most UCB libraries (more information)	Renew your books online; find course reserves; request items checked out by another borrower or stored offsite; restrict your search to specific UCB libraries, to online items only, or to available items only.
NextGen Melvyl Pilot NGM Help	Most UCB libraries and many libraries worldwide, plus citations to selected articles (more information)	Search libraries worldwide; create and save lists and add tags to items; automatically format citations; find selected article citations; easy-to-use, Amazon-like interface.
MELVYL MELVYL Help	Nearly all libraries on the UCB campus and the entire UC system (more information)	Request feature allows you to request items UCB doesn't own; most complete coverage of libraries on the UCB campus.

Finding Articles

Search article databases to find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. These databases index articles published in selected journals and magazines, papers presented at conferences, and other sources. Most records include citations and abstracts with links to the full text of articles (when available). To access the full text, use the button.

Core Article Databases in the Nutritional Sciences	Years Covered	Peer-reviewed Content?
AGRICOLA Agriculture, nutrition, biotechnology, ecology, economics, and forestry; indexes journal articles and USDA reports. US focus. (Agricola Factsheet)	1970-present	Some
BIOSIS The most comprehensive biological sciences article database; indexes over 6000 peer-reviewed journals. (Guide: HTML, PDF)	1926-present	Most
CAB ABSTRACTS Agriculture, nutrition, ecology, forestry, rural sociology, and economics. U.S. and international focus.	1910-present	Some
PUBMED The National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database, indexing articles from more than 4500 journals in biology and biomedicine. (Guide: HTML, PDF)	1949-present	Most
Related Article Databases	Years Covered	Peer-reviewed Content?
BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER Full text articles from more than 7400 scholarly business journals. Includes management, economics, finance, accounting ,and detailed company profiles for top business companies. Updated daily.	1965-present	Most
ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE Multidisciplinary source for scholarly journal and popular magazine articles; indexes and abstracts articles from more than 10,900 English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese sources. Full text is available for over 5300 journals.	1865-present	Some

Suggested Print Resources

Ask at the Bioscience Library circulation desk for materials on reserve at the Bioscience Library.

• Bowes & Church's food values of portions commonly used / Jean A.T. Pennington & Judith Spungen Douglass. 18th ed. Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2005.
  • Bioscience TX551.P385 2005 Reserve: on 2 hour reserve.
• Foodservice organizations : a managerial and systems approach / Marian C. Spears, Mary B. Gregoire. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.
  • Bioscience TX911.3.M27.S69 2007 Reserve: on 2 hour reserve.
  • Bus & Econ TX911.3.M27.S69 2007
• The HACCP food safety training manual / Tara Paster. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
  • Bioscience TX537.P292 2007
• Management practice in dietetics / Nancy R. Hudson. 2nd ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, c2006.
  • Bioscience TX911.3.M27.H83 2006: copy 1 in stacks, copy 2 on 2 hour reserve.
• Portion photos of popular foods / Mary Abbott Hess, editor. Chicago, Ill.: American Dietetic Association, c1997.
  • Bioscience fTX360.U6.P65 1997 Reserve: on 1-day reserve.

Suggested Web Sites

• American Dietetic Association
• Cornell Food and Brand Lab (Food Psychology)
• Food and Nutrition Information Center (USDA)
• Institute of Food Technologists
• International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS)
• National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (USDA Handbook 8)
• Nutrition.gov (National Agricultural Library, USDA)
• U. S. Food and Drug Administration

Managing Your References and Evaluating Your Sources

• Critical Evaluation of Resources Questions to ask when evaluating the suitability of a book, article, website, or other material.
• Citing Your Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism Quick guides to APA, MLA, and Chicago-Turabian styles.
• RefWorks The UCB Libraries have purchased a site license to RefWorks. Sign up for a free account, and manage your references and format bibliographies with just a few clicks. (Tutorials and Guides)