LibGuides: Systematic Reviews for Nutrition and Public Health: Nutrition

Resources on Nutrition and Systematic Reviews/ Evidence

Application of Systematic Review Methodology to the Field of Nutrition
This book describes "the steps for performing systematic reviews and [highlights] areas
unique to the discipline of nutrition important to consider in data assessment."
The Application of Evidence-Based Methods to Nutrition Research and Challenges Encountered: Fiber and Cardiovascular Outcomes.
This Master's thesis by Winifred Wingyun Yu of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition presents "the challenges and... methods to facilitate the application of the evidence-based approach to nutrition research."
Reporting of Systematic Reviews of Micronutrients and Health: A Critical Appraisal
This article focuses on "the reporting quality of
published [systematic reviews] and to identify areas of improvement" in regards to micronutrients and health.

Agricola
Compiled by the U.S. National Agricultural Library, Agricola covers the world's literature in agricultural research published in books, technical reports, and over 1,400 journals from 1979.
CAB Abstracts
Literature in agriculture, nutrition, animal health & natural resources. Useful resource for articles related to human-animal diseases, insect and water-borne diseases, and infrastructure in developing nations.
The Campbell Collaboration
"The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions"

EMBASE
Embase (Excerpta Medica Database) is a biomedical and pharmacological database produced by Elsevier B.V., containing 30 million records including articles from more than 8,500 journals published world-wide. It contains bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and its especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research, pharmacology and toxicology.

Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA)
FSTA contains information on food science, food technology and food related human nutrition abstracts. FSTA covers journal articles, patents, theses, standards, legislation, books, reviews, and conference proceedings.
Global Health
International database providing comprehensive coverage of the core public health literature, particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, human nutrition, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety and epidemiology.
LILACS
"LILACS is the most important and comprehensive index of scientific and technical literature of Latin America and the Caribbean."
Ovid MEDLINE
International biomedical journal literature includes over 11 million journal citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, healthcare systems, and pre-clinical sciences.
PubAg
Launched in 2013, "PubAg is a portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research. At launch, it delivers over 40,000 full-text journal articles by USDA staff and includes nearly 450,000 citations. "
PubMed@Tufts
Provides access to NCBI's databases including MEDLINE with links out to articles licensed by Tufts.

SCOPUS
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database that includes peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and web sources. Subject coverage : Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering ; Life and Health Sciences ; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics ; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Trials Register of Promoting Health Interventions (TRoPHI)
Database of "trials of interventions in health promotion and public health worldwide. It covers both randomised and non-randomised controlled trials and currently contains details of over 7,750 trials."
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary coverage of high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings.