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Nutrition 101
Periodical Indexes/Databases - to find the most current information on a topic, try journal or newspaper articles. In order to locate them, you must use an index. Just like in the back of a book there is an index which tells you what page to look at in the book, there are indexes to journals and newspapers which tell you which issue and page to look at in the journal. These indexes used to be just available in print but are now available online as well. Some online indexes which you should use in your work would be:
These are all available through the library's databases page: Just select the appropriate access - either on-campus (from anywhere at MWCC) or off-campus (if you're working from home), then find these online indexes in the alphabetical database listing. Once in these databases, try specific keyword searches such as:
Websites -
To supplement your investigation, but not to substitute for information
you find in journals and books. Be very
wary of nutrition information on the web!
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