Tutorials
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How to find Journal Articles - part 1: PubMed14 mins. 48 secs. This is an overview of how to find journal articles through PubMed.
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How to find Journal Articles - part 2: Google Scholar12 mins. 51 secs. Tips on how to save records and change your Google Scholar settings to enable ISU full-text links.
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ViewIt@ISU5 mins. This is the feature that enables direct links out to full-text for ISU researchers.
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How to Locate GEMsContains step-by-step directions.
Search Tips
Use "and", "or" to link concepts:
- (chocolate OR cacao) AND (health OR nutrition)
Use quotation marks if searching for an exact phrase:
- licorice AND "blood pressure"
Truncate search terms if appropriate. Adding an * at the end of a word will search for alternate word endings. For example, clon* will retrieve cloning, clone, clones, clonal.
The ISU Library provides access to almost 500 article databases. For Dietetics, we recommend PubMed and Google Scholar. If you are not finding articles on your topic using these databases, use the "Article Indexes and Databases" link at the bottom of the page.
For PubMed, before clicking on the database name below, login to your ISU Library account using My Library Card. Once you have done this, it will recognize you as a valid ISU user and enable the full-text links for articles...until you close your browser window.
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PubMedPubMed provides over 22 million citations for biomedical and life sciences literature, including: biomedicine and health, behavioral sciences, bioengineering, biochemistry, genetics, molecular and cell biology.
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Google ScholarOff-campus users must use Scholar settings to ensure smooth linkages to ISU Library articles in Google Scholar search results.
Note that terminology for ISU Library syncing with Google Scholar search results has changed from "GetIt@ISU" to "ViewIt@ISU".
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Article Indexes & DatabasesFull list of ISU Library databases for finding individual journal articles. Note that you can limit the list to display databases recommended for Food Science or Medicine.
Full-Text
Off-campus access to ISU Library resources requires logging in with your Net-ID and ISU email password. To make this process easier, we recommend you log in to My Library Card on the library home page and it will remember you as a valid ISU user until you close your Internet browser.
Any time you see EITHER of the above logos – click on it and it will help connect you to electronic full-text, or see if we have the paper version of the journal in the library. It will also supply you with a seamless link to requesting journal articles through Interlibrary Loan.
Your Librarian
Head of Research Services Dept.
150 Parks Library
Ames, IA 50011-2140