Nutritional Sciences

What does it mean to search for scholarly literature? Isn't searching Google enough?  The answer is No.  In your research classes, you should use article  databases, such as PubMed, to search for scholarly, peer-reviewed literature. 

• These databases contain millions of journal articles, most indexed with specific terms (such as MeSH, Emtree, or Subject), which help make your searches more focused. 
• They contain primary & secondary literature: articles that describe experiments of various kinds (primary literature) or studies that look at a group of experiments to see if there is broad support for the results of individual studies (secondary literature).

Next steps:

Creating a Well-Focused Question l Searching PubMed l Searching Other Databases - Embase l Searching Other Databases - Web of Science l Article Abstract Page

Or use this link to a Canvas Module:  Introduction to Searching the Scientific Literature