Nutrition Research:   Paper and Oral Presentation Assignment

• Sources: Find three FULLY REFERENCED, PEER REVIEWED articles from a scientific journal and/or government source.
• There must be citations at the end of the article to indicate that the writer used and cited other research before writing the article.

1. Finding full text journal articles.

• Select Full Text Articles from the Library Homepage. This is the best starting place for articles.
• From the GENERAL category select Academic Search Premier

  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"

1. In Academic Search Premier
2. Limit the time span to recent 5 or 10 years to get the latest research results.
3. Click in the Full Text box to select fulltext articles.
4. Click in the References available choice box
5. Click in the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) box
   
6. Click on SEARCH
7. Select one article to look at. Select the PDF Full Text icon

The following table illustrates the operation of Boolean terms:

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?

• If your article is HTML Full Text, you can print it if you click on the PRINT button at the top of the screen.
• If your article is a PDF Full Text, you can only print by clicking on the image of a printer at the top left of the screen in Acrobat Reader. Don't use the PRINT button or pull down menu File / Print.
• Email the article to yourself or a friend: Click on email at the top of the screen. Check the option box for citation and any available full text; type in the email address; click on the submit button. 
• Save the article to your disk Click on Save at the top of the screen.  Check the option box for display to save; click on the submit button.  select File/Save as and use .txt as the extension.
To use these online full text resources from a home computer, you need to have
1. internet access and
2. a current, valid library card. From home,
3. start at the library homepage: http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
   Then select "Full Text Articles" from the library homepage.
4. When you select a database you will be asked to key in your bar code number.

2. Health Source Nursing / Academic

• Select Full Text Articles from the Library Homepage
• From the Health & Medicine category select Health Source Nursing/Academic
• Proceed to search in the same manner as with Academic Search Premier (above)
  

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

1. limit the date to within the last 5-10 years
2. Choose FREE FULL TEXT
3. limit the language to English
4. limit the type to Review Articles.

 

Here is a result for the search for: Vitamin E AND alzheimers

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]

Related articles     Free article

 

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 name

  Quotes 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"  -pregnancy

  Now 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