Databases - LIBS475 - Senior Capstone - Research & Subject Guides at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University

Selected Databases

Databases are a great way to find credible, peer-reviewed articles for your senior capstone paper. Below are a few multidisciplinary and subject-specific databases to help you get started with your research.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate provides access to full-text articles from a wide variety of disciplines.
Agricola This link opens in a new window
Provides access to literature aquired by the National Agricultural Library. Also covers food and nutrition, agricultural economics, and parasitology.
CAB Direct This link opens in a new window
Provides international coverage of agriculture, forestry, and allied life and applied sciences. Contains citations to journal articles, books, conference papers, and reports in the fields of agriculture; animal and veterinary sciences; environmental sciences; human health, food and nutrition; leisure and tourism; microbiology and parasitology; and plant sciences. Bluford Library's subscriptions inlcude CAB ABSTRACTS, Global Health, Animal Science, Nutrition and Food Sciences, Leisure Tourism, and CABI Full Text.
Family Health Database This link opens in a new window
This database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations This link opens in a new window
A source of knowledge covering agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices.
Food Studies Online This link opens in a new window
Food Studies Online is the first database offering in one place the most relevant and valuable materials in this new and exciting area. This databases contains video and print materials.
Nutrition and Food Sciences Database This link opens in a new window
Nutrition and Food Sciences is a specialist internet resource that gathers together research, reviews and news on nutrition and the food sciences in an easily searchable database. It covers the whole food chain from the raw ingredients to the physiological and health effects of nutrients. Key subject areas include public health, clinical nutrition, nutrition physiology, food safety, food security, consumer behaviour, food science and technology and food product groups such as functional foods.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central provides access to full-text articles from a wide variety of disciplines.

Databases by Subject

Databases by Subject
This is a list of more databases, in other research guides, listed by subject.

General Database Search Tips

The tutorial below shows you helpful techniques for searching in any database. Use these techniques as well as the ones in the videos to become a master search strategist!

Keyword Searching in Library Databases
Tutorial from University of Missouri-St. Louis that goes through four modules on search strategies including "Unnecessary Words and Letters in Keyword Searches", "About AND", "Using Truncation", and The "advanced search" Feature".

Searching Databases

This video provides a few tips and shortcuts for searching articles in a library database.

Source: Modern Librarian Memoirs. (2013) Quick Tips & Shortcuts for Database Searching

Understanding Boolean Operators

This video demonstrates how to use Boolean operators when searching in library subscribed databases.
Source: cutemiffy. (2007). Boolean Operators [video]. Retrieved June 24, 2009 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vube-ZcJFk4