Austin Community College Library Services

TABLE OF LINK CATEGORIES
This web site is organized into these clickable categories:
Web Search Engines
Gateways and General Information Sources
Government and Academic Sites
Associations
Dietary and Food Analyses
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Indexes and Abstracts
Electronic Books or Hypertextbooks and Electronic Reports
Dietary Supplements

Scirus
http://www.scirus.com/
Scirus is a search engine that focuses on scientific information. Using its Advanced Search option enables specifying scientific disciplines, times periods, and other important factors in a search.

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections--Nutrition
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/canned_search?query=%7CNUTRITION%7C&categories=bioag&fields=su
"INFOMINE is intended for the introduction and use of Internet/Web resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It is being offered as a comprehensive showcase, virtual library and reference tool containing highly useful Internet/Web resources including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers, among many other types of information."

Austin Community College Library Services
http://library.austincc.edu
Provides links to: the ACC Library Catalog, Articles and Reference Sources, Web Subject Links, Searching the Web tips, Other Library Catalogs, and Research Guides & Documentation, as well as Online Tutorials.

Food and Nutrition Information Center Web Site
http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/
"The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) is one of several information centers at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The FNIC home page is a great place to start your Internet search for nutrition information. We have many publications on nutrition and also provide an excellent jumping off point" for other good sources of nutrition information. See the Index of Food and Nutrition-Related Internet Resources for a listing organized by topic."

Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
"The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, known as CFSAN, is one of five product-oriented centers, in addition to a nationwide field force, which carry out the mission of Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Includes Information about Dietary Supplements, Food Additives, Foodborne Illness, Food Labeling and Nutrition, Pesticides, Metals & Chemical Contaminants, and Biotechnology."

National Food Safety Initiative
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/fs-toc.html
Comprehensive site resulting from the combined efforts of Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Centers for Disease Control.

World Lecture Hall (WLH)
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
"The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc. From Browse by Area select Health / Public Health / Nutrition or use Advanced Search."

Europa, the European Union's server
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
Use the search engine on this site to find European official documents, legal texts, rules and regulations, publications, and databases relating to biotechnology, pollution, nutrition, chemicals, and other science and technology topics.

American Dietetic Association (ADA)
http://www.eatright.org/Public/
"The ADA and its National Center for Nutrition and Dietetics promote optimal nutrition, health and well being."

Houston Area Dietetic Association
http://www.hada.com/
"The Houston Area Dietetic Association is a professional organization that consists of Registered Dietitians (R.D.). The dietetic profession serves the public by promoting nutrition and healthy lifestyles. R.D.'s work in a variety of areas that include healthcare institutions, schools, cafeterias, restaurants and corporate wellness. Fitness is becoming a way of life for most people, so consult an R.D. for questions that relate to nutrition and your health."

Nutrition Analysis Tool System
http://nat.crgq.com/
The Nutrition Analysis Tool (NAT) is a web based program that allows anyone to analyze the foods they eat for various different nutrients. This tool is completely free and quite easy to use...

FDA/CFSAN Bad Bug Book
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html
"This handbook provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins. It brings together in one place information from the Food & Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service, and the National Institutes of Health... Some technical terms have been linked to the National Library of Medicine's Entrez glossary. Recent articles from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports have been added to selected chapters to update the handbook with information on later outbreaks or incidents of foodborne disease. At the end of selected chapters on pathogenic microorganisms, hypertext links are included to relevant Entrez abstracts and GenBank genetic loci. A more complete description of the handbook may be found in the Preface."

National Food Safety Initiative
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/fs-toc.html
Comprehensive site resulting from the combined efforts of Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Centers for Disease Control.

PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed
"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources." Click on the Site Map to view the impressive range of information and databases available. These are world-class and provide reliable, current information."

Database of U.S. Department of Education Publications in ERIC
http://www.ed.gov/about/pubs/intro/index.html
Find any publication produced or funded by the U.S. Department of Education since its creation in 1980 which appears in ERIC, the world's largest bibliographic database of education literature. The database currently lists 22,456 publications entered into the ERIC database through [the previous month] (note that publications released in the last few months may not yet be in the database).

National Academy Press Reading Room--Food and Nutrition
http://www.nap.edu/topics.php?topic=287
Contains thousands of full books, free for the reading, first page to last…They're available in a variety of versions, including scanned pages in image format, hypertext HTML books, and Adobe Acrobat PDF. Subjects covered include: Agricultural Sciences, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Earth Sciences, Education, Energy Studies, Engineering, Environmental Issues, Food and Nutrition, General Interest, Industry and Economics, International Problems, Policies, and Issues, Marine and Maritime Studies, Mathematical Sciences and Statistics, Materials, Medical Sciences, Public Health and Health Care, Natural Resources, Research Issues and Scientific Leadership, Physical Sciences, Science and Ethics, Special Reports, Directories, and Bibliographies, Transportation, Urban Development. Hundreds of these books are also searchable and accessible through the ACC Library Catalog with some included in NetLibrary.

ConsumerLab.com (CL)
http://www.consumerlab.com

Dietary Supplement Information Bureau
http://www.supplementinfo.org

HerbMed
http://www.herbmed.org

Longwood Herbal Task Force (LHTF)
http://www.longwoodherbal.org

MedlinePlus: Dietary Supplements
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dietarysupplements.html

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cfm

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library (NAL): Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC): Dietary Supplements
http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=3&tax_subject=274&topic_id=1323&level3_id=5147

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition: Dietary Supplements
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/supplmnt.html

U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM): Dietary and Herbal Supplements
http://www.nccam.nih.gov/health/supplements

U.S. National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements
http://www.ods.od.nih.gov

For comments or questions about these resources, send e-mail to Linda Clement.