Librarian - Bernice Wright
Email: bwright@sfasu.edu
Phone: 936.468.1528
Office: 202d
Appointments Available
Subject Indexes | E-Text | Websites
Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.
Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.
Agricola (Ebsco) contains over 3 million citations to materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions.
CultureGrams Online (ProQuest) is a cultural reference product for over 200 world countries that includes country-specific reports, as well as outline maps, color flag images, photo gallery, and much more.
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale Cengage Learning) is an index to full text articles and citations, along with definitions and directories, as well as links to health sites and government databases.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic edition (Ebsco) provides full-text access to articles in scholarly journals focusing on nursing and allied health professions.
Health Reference Center (1996 - Present) provides indexing for magazine and journal articles, and pamphlets dealing with personal and allied heath, medicine, and nursing. Many of the articles are available in full-text format.
Medline (Ebsco) is a database that covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. There is no full text access, but most records include substantial abstracts.
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service with access to 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals).
Stat!Ref is a full text collection of 35 medical and drug reference titles, including the Merck Manual and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
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NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.
Encyclopedia of food and culture
American Dietetic Association
Includes links to the Food Guide Pyramid, Careers in Dietetics,
and much more!
Texas Dietetic Association
Lots of links to other sites dealing with all aspects of health and nutrition.
Food Science Central--From the publishers of Food Science and Technology Abstracts, a web site with information on the world of food. It is free to register and there is a wealth of information here.
Food Safety Project
The goal of this site, from Iowa State University Extension, is to develop materials that give the public tools they can use to protect themselves against food-borne illnesses. Provides links to Food Safety Lessons, Resources and Publications, Common Food-borne Pathogens, and more.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The FDA has many helpful resources, including the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Pesticides, Metals and Chemical Contaminants, and the Bad Bug Book. (This handbook provides basic facts regarding food-borne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins. It brings together in one place information from the Food & Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service, and the National Institutes of Health.)
Refrigerated, Frozen, and Cupboard Storage Charts
Chart of how and how long to store various food items.
Nutrition Links
List of links produced by the Extension Human Nutrition, Kansas State Research and Extension. The links are arranged by subjects, such as: Life span Nutrition, Medical Nutrition, Nutrients, Nutrition Profiles, Organizations, Government Sites, and more.
The National Food Safety Database
Produced by the University of Florida and sponsored by the USDA, the National Food Safety Database project was developed to be an efficient management system of US food safety databases that are used by the Cooperative Extension Service (CES), consumers, industry, and other public health organizations. The end result of such a management program is a highly informative, efficient and accurate website which will provide one-stop shopping for food safety information.
