Library Resources for FCS 190

William Thompson and Brian Clark

Dietetics  / Textiles / Hospitality

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Dietetics  
 
 
Databases: Biological and Agricultural Index
                    This database has some full text.
                     Example search:
 

 
 
EBSCO: Health Source Consumer Edition and/or  Health Source Nursing Academic (2 Separate Databases)
               These databases have some a good bit of full text. As you might imagine, the "Consumer Edititon" is aimed less at professionals (that would be you) than at consumers (that would be the people you treat/advise).  The opposite is true of "Nursing / Academic." Both databases search in a similar manner. We will be using the Consumer Edition for our examples. You should use both for your research.
                Example Searches: The images below are clickable.

   

Simple search--too broad
 

 
 

Subject Based Search
 

 

 

Subject Based Search Restricted by Full Text and By Date

 

 To Restrict A Search, click on the Refine Search Tab
 

 
 

Subject Based Search Restricted by Number of Pages (more than 4)
 

 
 
 
 
 
Medline
              The world's largest medical database. This database has some full text.
               Example Searches. These are not clickable.
 
 

The trick to using Medline is to use the Subjects Thesaurus. You get to it by clicking on the Subjects Icon in the upper left hand of the screeen, just above the Search Button.  Next you fill in the search as below.
 
   
 
You will be taken to a screen telling you whether Folic Acid is an acceptable subject term. It is. If it wasn't, you would get a message like,  Use Instead: SOME OTHER TERM. Then, you would click on the term. Note, that there is a green link named EXPAND next to FOLIC ACID. If you click on this term, you will be taken to more, and more narrowly focused, terms dealing with FOLIC ACID.
 
 
 
 

 After clicking on EXPAND, you get a great many choices. If you click on any of them, it will define, and create, a search for you.  Click on Adverse Effects. Medline will run a search.

 

 
 

  FOLIC ACID Adverse Effects Search
 

This search gave us 1039 results--way too many. But we can fix that. Click on the Searching Tab. This will take you back to the Advance Search interface.
 

 
 
 

 What we do is, limit the search by year and select "Subscriptions Held by My Library" This reduces the hits to a manageable 79.
 

 

 USING INTER LIBRARY LOAN from MEDLINE

 

 Let's look at the third result of the above search. Note that there is no full text. Click on the See more details for locating this item.
 

 

This will take you to the "Local Holdings Information," which tells you whether or not WIU continues to subscribe to the journal.  Note that our subscription to this journal ended in 2002. That means you can use Inter Library Loan--which is free. You can use it to order up to five items a day. A book or article each count as an item. To use ILL, click on the "Borrow this item from another library" link and fill out the form. The article should get you in ten business days or 14 calendar days--though it may take longer.
 

 
 
 
 
Nutrition and Food Sciences
                                                           Very science focused. Not much full text--so you will be using Inter Library Loan. The state-of-the-art for Nutrition.

                                                            Note: Due to licensing restrictions, only one person can use this database at a time. Also, when you finish, please be sure to log out--or you will remain logged in for quite a while, thus blocking other users.

Folic Acid and Adverse Effects
 

Just like Medline, Nutrition and Food Sciences has a thesaurus--and it is the best place to start.  You will find the Thesaurus link just above the search interface.

 
 
 Here is an example of the Thesaurus.  After checking folic acid, you then click on  view records at the bottom of the screen. That will run the search.
 

 
 
 

Not surprisingly, this search returns many hits
 

 

 There is a Refine Search menu at the bottom of the Results page.  This the point at which you add in the "adverse effects" term.
 

 

Results

To retrieve full text from this database you will need to see if we subscribe to the journal by using the Periodicals Holdings List (PHL). If we do subscribe (either in electronic or print), then you may retrieve the article by one of those means. To see how to do this, click here.  If we don't have a subscription, then you will need to use Inter Library Loan.
 

 
 
Using Google
 
 The key to using Google effectively is to limit your searches. One of the best ways to do this is to use the site: command.
This command will limit your search to various domains. site:gov limits you to United States government pages. site:edu to universities. site:org to non-profits (or, rather, entities claiming to be non profits) and so on. intitle:forces the word to be in the web page's title area. To learn more about searching Google, click here.  The searches below are clickable. If you change gov to edu, you will get results from universities.