Nutritional Sciences

Welcome to the research guide for Nutritional Sciences, which provides detailed lists of information sources to help answer your research questions.

If you've been searching for 20 minutes or longer and can't find what you're looking for, feel free to give us a call.  Your informationist can:

• Help with your literature search
• Give you tips for finding questionnaires or other study elements
• Provide one-on-one advice about your research topic
• Teach you advanced tricks for database searching
• Orient you to the library resources available through UM
• Teach you about citation management tools (EndNote, etc.) that can save you time with your bibliography

“At a time when a rapid nutrition transition is shifting diets for most young people globally, improving adolescent nutrition provides an opportunity to shape the health and wellbeing of this generation and the next.”

The Lancet has published a series of articles on adolescents and nutrition. Read the articles here for free as long as you sign up for a free account.

Find information on COVID-19 quickly using these resources. The Front Door searches high quality meta-analyses, literature syntheses, & clinical guidelines from multiple sources in one place.

To search in PubMed, see the links below. To find results in more resources, including preprints, see this article: Farhad Shokraneh, Rapid Response:Keeping Up with Studies on COVID-19: Systematic Search Strategies and Resources. BMJ 2020;368:m1199. You can then modify the searches to make them more focused on the precise question that you're asking.

Please note: the links below go to public PubMed, not to PubMed @ UM.

For search strategies for OVID Medline, see the link below.

For even more resources, please see the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) research guide.