Highlighted Databases: Nutrition Education

Mary Swartz Rose, Professor of Household Arts from 1910 to 1923 and Professor of Nutrition from 1923 to 1940 at Teachers College, Columbia University and Henry Sherman, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, co-created the program in Nutrition at Teachers College over ninety years ago. In doing so, Rose became the first full-time person to develop a program in nutrition at an American university.

Our historical resources in the field of nutrition education reflect depth and breadth of coverage, as do current databases that cover the literature of nutrition education and support teaching, learning, and research -- and complement current offerings of the Library, among them:  Enduring Cookbooks, Food for Thought (Curiosity Cabinets) and Food in Art: Delicious Inspiration (Offit Gallery).

In October we highlight databases of relevance to nutrition education.

Nutrition

APA PsycNet is a database of streaming psychotherapy demonstrations featuring some of the most renowned therapists in North America working with participants on a host of therapeutic topics. Allows viewers to go straight to the heart of clinical practice with demonstrations of psychotherapy as it is done by today's leading practitioners. 

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a robust collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL®.

Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making: the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; the Cochrane Methodology Register; the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects; the Health Technology Assessment Database; and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database.There is a a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of healthcare topics.

MEDLINE contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world. Additionally, MEDLINE Subject Headings help users effectively search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine.

PubMed provides access to over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

World Databank (CU) is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics, including global nutrition statistics.

Education

Education Full Text™ provides full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996, indexing of over 770 periodicals dating back to 1983, in-depth coverage of special education, with over 50 journals dedicated to this important topic, and more than 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests.

Education Index Retrospective™: 1929-1983 indexes more than 800 periodicals and yearbooks, and cites approximately 850,000 articles, including book reviews. The database provides information on societal trends affecting education, including segregation, multiculturalism, feminism, and economic developments.

Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research dating back to 1966. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Available through Ebsco, Proquest, and the government site.

Multidisciplinary

Academic Search Premier provides active full text for over 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals. Also fofers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals in nearly every area of academic study.

JSTOR Health and General Sciences covers 68 journals in the field of health, medicine, nursing and the general sciences.

Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Proquest (CU) provides broad multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly journals, newspapers, dissertations, and other types of publications. Access provided by Columbia University Libraries.

For additional resources be sure to consult the Nutrition Education Research Guide, as well as our list of A-Z Databases.