Nutrition and Food Science Research Guide

Resources that can help you turn a journal title abbreviation into the full journal title.

Many instructors at the college level require that you use scholarly articles as sources when writing
a research paper. Scholarly or peer-reviewed articles are written by experts in academic or professional fields. They are excellent sources for finding out what has been studied or researched on a topic as well as to find bibliographies that point to other relevant sources of information.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.

When you search for information, you're going to find lots of it . . . but is it good information? You will
have to determine that for yourself, and the CRAAP Test can help. The CRAAP Test is a list of questions to help you evaluate the information you find. Different criteria will be more or less important depending on your situation or need.