Human Nutrition Guide
Human Nutrition - Page address: http://library.uwb.edu/guides/cccnutr110.html
New Student Checklist Getting Started with your Topic
New Student Checklist

New Student Checklist - Everything you need to know as a CCC student including activating your library account, connecting to restricted online resources from home, and accessing electronic course reserves.

Getting Started with your Topic

The resources below will help you get started. They tend to contain very broad overviews of topics, with links or references to other useful materials.
  Facts.com from Facts on File includes World News Digest, Issues and Controversies and Today's Science databases - UWB/CCC on-campus use only
This Web site serves as a portal to background information on a variety of topics, and is updated regularly. Try searching in Issues and Controversies first (although depending on your topic, you may want to explore other resources as well). Because of our licensing agreement, this source can only be accessed from a computer on campus.

CQ researcher - UW/CCC restricted.   Offers in-depth coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Synthesis articles focus on one topic per issue.

Does UW/CCC restricted mean Cascadia students can't use this database? No--it just means that you must use the off-campus access button in the upper right hand corner of this page to access them from off campus. More info on setting up your CCC UW NetID

Topics Collection (Information Commons, 1st floor of the Library)
This collection contains books on topics that lend themselves to an argument of some kind. Many contain overviews of the issue, along with summaries of the key positions (and the individuals who promote or refute them). Two series that cover a broad range of subjects are "Opposing Viewpoints" and "Contemporary World Views."

This list is organized by the publication year.

  • Food. TX360.U6 F62 2008 from the Current Controversies series.
  • Dieting. WD 212 D565 2008 from the Issues that Concern You series.
  • Performance enhancing drugs. QT 261 P438 2008 from the At Issue series.
  • Eating Disorders: opposing viewpoints. WM 175 E14619 2007
  • Steroids. QT 261 S839 2006 from the At Issue series.
  • Obesity: opposing viewpoints. WD 210 O23 2006
  • Addiction: opposing viewpoints. HV5825 A647 2005
  • Fast food. HD9005 .F37 2005 from the At Issue series.
  • Tobacco and smoking: opposing viewpoints. HV5733 .T62 2005
  • Food safety. TX531 .F5677 2005 from the At Issue series.
  • Epidemics: opposing viewpoints. WC 503.7 E64 2005
  • Food-borne illnesses.  WC 268 F68695 2004  from the At Issue series.
  • Health: opposing viewpoints. WB 130 H4342 2004
  • Alcohol: opposing viewpoints. HV5035 .A458 2004
  • Endangered oceans: opposing viewpoints. QH541.5.S3 E535 2004
  • Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial issues in food and nutrition. QU 145 T136 2004
  • Genetic engineering : opposing viewpoints. QH438.7 .G413 2004 
  • Genetically engineered foods. TP248.65.F66 G453 2004 from the At Issue series.
  • Global resources : opposing viewpoints. HD75.6 .G56 2003 
  • An aging population : opposing viewpoints.  HQ 1064.U5 A6353 2002 
  • Eating disorders : opposing viewpoints.  WM 175 E14619 2001
  • Anorexia.  WM 175 A6147 2001 
  • Agricultural crisis in America : a reference handbook.  HD 1761 H56 1999

Finding Articles: Search the following periodical databases to find journal, newspaper and/or magazine articles on your topic. Some of these databases will provide you scholarly articles, some with provide popular magazine or newspaper articles, some will provide both.

MORE DATABASES:  UW Libraries Databases page; Health and Medicine Library Resource Guide

Nutrition Newsletters: These are accessible electronically through the UW Libraries Catalog and most are UW/CCC restricted resources:

Selected Web Sites
 

Washington County and State Government Web Sites

National Government and Organization Web Sites

International Web Sites

Food Safety - Government and Organization Web Sites

Culinary History Web Sites

  • The Food Timeline - This site includes information on culinary history as well a food timeline that ranges from pre-history to the present.  Maintained by the Morris County Public Library in New Jersey.
  • Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project: American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. Digital images of the pages of each cookbook are available as well as full-text transcriptions and the ability to search within the books, or across the collection, in order to find specific information. Maintained by Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum.
  • Anthropology of Food is bilingual academic webjournal in French and English produced and published by a network of European academic researchers sharing a common intellectual interest in the social science of food.
Finding Books
  The UW Libraries Catalog provides you with access to titles between the Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma campuses. Through the UW catalog you can also search the Summit catalog and gain access to items at academic libraries throughout WA and OR. If we don't own a book or if it's checked out, you still might be able to get a copy from another library.

To see what is currently available at our library - I suggest performing a KEYWORD search for NUTRITION and limiting the location to the  BOTHELL/CCC CAMPUS LIBRARY in the catalog.  A TITLE search for FOOD and limiting the location to the BOTHELL/CCC CAMPUS LIBRARY in the catalog can also be fruitful (no pun intended). You can also access several electronic titles (online books and government documents) this way. Click on the link below to go to the catalog.  

Books from our collection - a sample. Book lists organized by the year of publication.

Circulating books can be found on the third floor. This list is organized by the publication year.

Fad Diet books: available on the third floor or they may be on reserve for your class. Reserve books are listed in the UW Libraries Catalog under Course Reserves and may be searched by course or professor. 

Reference books are located in the Information Commons on the first floor of the library. This list is organized by the call number and publication year.

Online Books - Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Nonfiction

Online book databases:

Research and Writing Guides

Questions?

If you have any other questions at any stage of the research process, please do not hesitate to contact me. Nutrition Librarian Liaison: Julie Planchon Wolf - Reference and Instruction/Nursing Librarian
Ph: 425.352.3452, Office # LB1-210B, E-mail: jwolf@uwb.edu.

Also, other librarians are available to help you by calling 425.352.5340, or use our Ask us a question services.