LibGuides: NUTR 4365: Nutrition in the Life Span: Suggested Databases

PubMed & Medline Databases

What is PubMed?

PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Pubmed contains over 23.5 million citations, but does not include full text articles.

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1949-present

What is Medline?

Medline is the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 25 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®).

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PubMed Tutorials & Help

PubMed Quick Start Guide
How to search, find citations, display an abstract, get a copy of an article, watch videos, and narrow/broaden your search.
PubMed® Online Training
Variety of training videos and clips.
MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different?

Off-Campus Database Access

Databases are available to all students of Texas State. When you access databases from off-campus, you will be prompted for your username and password. This is the same as your NetID for campus email or Canvas.

If you are having trouble or would like a more detailed explanation, see the Remote Databases Access page. This page includes names and phone numbers of people to contact for assistance.

Recommended Nutrition & Health Databases

CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Nursing, health administration, health information management, long term care, health services physical therapy, respiratory care, radiation therapy, communication disorders, clinical laboratory science & other allied health disciplines. 1937-present.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Medicine, nursing, allied health, alternative medicine, nutrition, pharmacy. Includes Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. 1975-present.
Nutrition Terminology Reference Manual This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive guide for implementing the Nutrition Care Process. It is designed to improve the consistency and quality of nutrition care and the predictability of the nutrition care outcome.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Over 4,000 Elsevier science journals and tens of thousands of books covering a wide variety of subjects in physical sciences & engineering, life sciences, health & medicine, social sciences & humanities. This platform does not support Internet Explorer.

Health and Medicine Databases
Lots more databases available through the library that specialize in health, medicine, and nutrition.

NUTR 4365: Nutrition in the Life Span: Suggested Databases

PubMed & Medline Databases

PubMed Tutorials & Help

Off-Campus Database Access

Recommended Nutrition & Health Databases

Google Scholar

Did you know that accessing Google Scholar either below or through the Library website will prevent you from having to pay for access to articles?