Useful Links by ACES Department


Food Science & Human Nutrition
 Databases for Food Science and Human Nutrition

  • AGRICOLA
    Provides references to publications in agricultural and related sciences with a focus on U.S. agriculture.

  • CAB Abstracts
    A large and comprehensive international database that identifies articles about agricultural, biological, and environmental subjects, including nutrition.

  • Dissertation Abstracts
    Identifies doctoral dissertations from U.S. & Canadian institutions. Read the full text (PDF) of dissertations produced at CIC institutions (including UIUC) from 1997 to the present. Abstracts only are available for dissertations from 1980-1996; and citations only on material from 1861-1979.

  • Food and Nutrition Information Center
    Includes Food Safety, Healthy School Meals Resource System, Food Stamp Nutrition Connection, WIC Works Resource System, HACCP Training Materials, IBIDS Database, FSRIO, and Native American Nutrition Education Database.

  • PubMed
    The online version of Medline, the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database. This resource offers access to several full-text articles on human nutrition.

  • SciFinder Scholar [Chemical Abstracts]
    The largest and most comprehensive chemical literature database. It identifies a wide variety of resources in the areas of technology and science, and includes some links to full text.

  • Web of Science [Science Citation Index]
    Provides the most current index to over 8000 of the world's leading scholarly research journals in all disciplines; includes abstracts. Updated weekly. Avail: 1982 - present. Includes a unique "cited reference" feature, to find articles that have cited a given article.