| Instructor: Cathy Cavenaugh | To find this page: From the library homepage libwww.cabrillo.edu select Internet Links Select Nutrition a the top under "Course Related Materials" select CAHM 20 |
| Nutrition Research: Paper and Oral Presentation Assignment |
| 1. Finding full text journal articles. |
Sample search: phytochemicals AND human nutrition
Tip: if you want to search for a specific vitamin, you should put the name in quotation marks: example: "Vitamin E"
The following table illustrates the operation of Boolean terms:
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And |
Or |
Not |
| Each result contains all search terms. | Each result contains at least one search term. |
Results do not contain the specified terms. |
| The search food safety and vitamins finds items that contain both human nutrition and vitamins. |
The search starvation or deficiency finds items that contain either starvation or items that contain deficiency. |
The search antibiotics not human finds items that contain antibiotics but do not contain the word human. |
What can you do besides read this on your screen?
| 2. Health Source Nursing / Academic |
| 3. Access to scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles at PubMed.gov |
Type this address into your browser: http://www.pubmed.gov
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Select ADVANCED SEARCH at the top of the page next to the text box
Carefully scroll down the page setting limits for your search
Here is a result for the search for: Vitamin E AND alzheimers
- limit the date to within the last 5-10 years
- Choose FREE FULL TEXT
- limit the language to English
- limit the type to Review Articles.
1. Antioxidants in central nervous system diseases: preclinical promise and translational challenges.Kamat CD, Gadal S, Mhatre M, Williamson KS, Pye QN, Hensley K.
J Alzheimers Dis. 2008 Nov;15(3):473-93. Review.PMID: 18997301 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
When you select the Free article, you will see the Abstract and have to click again on the FREE icon in the upper right of the next page.
4. Using the Google Search Engine at: www.google.com to find government research Why use Google?
- Google automatically searches words as if the word AND was between them
- You can use quotes and minus signs to help your searches
"word word" double quotes around a phrase
"George W. Bush" double quotes around a nameQuotes create a phrase which will be retrieved exactly in the order you typed.
Examples of using quotes: "food safety" "vitamin E" "e coli"
Limit your search to a governement agency:
In this case only gov sites
Example:
phytochemicals site:gov- a minus sign
a minus sign eliminates any results with that word or phrase
example: "food safety" -pregnancyNow go to Google and type in your search words
Write the information here for a good site on your topic:Author(s):__________________________________________________________________________________
Title of website:_______________________________________________________________________________
Web Address:_________________________________________________________________________________
Todays date:____________________
Revised Nov. 01, 2009 || Johanna Bowen || Return to the library homepage