Database Digest

USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference – Release 15
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR15/sr15.html

Would you like to know what is in your food? The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference allows you to look up the nutrient content of 6220 different foods. You can search the database online or download the database for use on your computer whenever you want. You can display reports of all the foods in the database, separated into files according to food groups. You can also display nutrient lists for selected foods and nutrients. These lists are sorted either by food description or in descending order by nutrient content in terms of common household measures. (You will need Adobe Acrobat viewer to view the reports and nutrient lists.)

IBIDS Database of Dietary Supplement Literature
http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/showpage.aspx?pageid=48

The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements. It contains over 690,000 citations on the topic of dietary supplements from four major database sources: biomedical-related articles from MEDLINE, botanical and agricultural science from AGRICOLA, worldwide agricultural literature through AGRIS, and selected nutrition journals from CAB Abstracts and CAB Health. It is produced for consumers, health care providers, educators, and researchers with citations dating 1986 to the present. There are three search options: the full IBIDS database; the IBIDS consumer database; or peer reviewed citations only. To assist those who might be unfamiliar with scientific terminology, a copy-and-paste keyword list is provided. New search terms, abstracts and citations are added quarterly.

IBIDS is a collaborative effort between the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Dietary Supplements and The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC), The National Agricultural Library (NAL), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture(USDA).

DIRLINE
http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/

The Directory of Information Resources Online (DIRLINE) is an easy to search database that contains location and description information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. The categories of resources in DIRLINE include federal, state, and local government agencies; information and referral centers; professional societies; self-help groups and voluntary associations; academic and research institutions and their programs; information systems and research facilities. DIRLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine and can be searched directly from it website or through the NLM Gateway <http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov>.