Alta Vista

Another comprehensive search engine. Allows Boolean searching (including advanced search option).

Menagerie of general search engines!

The Blonz web site has search entry forms right on screen for a goodly collection of the very many general Internet search engines available these days.

 

Britannica Internet Guide

Annotated, rated lists of sites with search engine.

Yahoo

The granddaddy of them all!!

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SEARCHING FOR NUTRITION RESEARCH

USDA Research data base

"contains the information on ongoing and recently completed projects sponsored or conducted primarily within the USDA and State university research system. Some 30,000 project summaries, including latest progress reports and lists of recent publications coming out of the research, are maintained in the file on an ongoing basis. Projects on human nutrition research of the Federal agencies are also included in the database."

This is part of a larger set of federal health agencies research search engines, which includes:

• National Institutes of Health
• The National Science Foundation
• The Medical Research Council, UK

You can search by keyword, by geographical and topic areas. You can also search the Inventory of Canadian Agri-Food Research (ICAR)

 

Search NIH WEB-SPACE: Query FORM

Specialised search engine for NIH documents, including preventive medicine, basic research etc.

The National Association of GCRC Research Bionutritionists Home Page

These are nutritionists involved in research at Registered Dietitians who direct the Bionutrition research services at the General Clinical Research Centers. Web site has information on who they are and the projects they are working on, links, a manual etc.

Dairy Australia

Links to Internet dairy resources in a wide variety of aspects, including research. This web site includes material from the now-merged organisation the Dairy Research and Development Corporation.

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NUTRITION MAILING LISTS, NEWS GROUPS

Tony Helman's catalogue of Nutrition mailing lists

A fairly comprehensive catalogue of mailing lists for nutrition professionals, though not entirely up to date. It does not deal with mailing lists for the public, nor with bulletin boards.

Tile: mailing lists and news groups

Use the search engine for terms such as "nutrition", "food", "diet" etc. Output lacks descriptions, but a short description is accessible in an associated file.

List search

Can enter nutrition into the search engine, returns a moderate number of lists, main feature of which is that it indicates the list size.

One Globe: Agricultural mailing lists and usenet groups

Good set of agricultural mailing lists and some news groups (including meat and dairy ones). Not always much descriptive detail.

Fnspec archive

Archive for postings of the primary mailing list for extension nutrition specialists in the US.

Healthy School Meals Resource System: Online Discussion Groups

Information and subscribing details for NAL linked mailing lists associated with US-based child nutrition programs, such as Mealtalk, Foodsafe, Reviewtalk etc.

Pedi-rd mailing list

"Pedi-RD is an e-mail mailing list for dietitians and other health care professionals interested in neonatal/perinatal and pediatric nutrition" Another new mailing list is NS-net, which is related to nutrition support and parenteral nutrition. Its home page is at http://www.uihc.uiowa.edu/pubinfo/ns-net.htm

 

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