ResearchGuides: Food and Nutrition Sciences: Databases

Find a Database (Helka)

Research in Finland

Projectnet (Hankehaavi in Finnish) is a searchable database of research projects which focus on natural resources

Research.fi is a service offered by the Ministry of Education and Culture that collects and shares information on research conducted in Finland

Open Access Services and Repositories

Directory of Open Access Repositories

Directory of Open Access Preprint Repositories – Biology / Life sciences

bioRxiv the preprint server for biology

agriRxiv preprints for agriculture and allied sciences

medRxiv the preprint server for health sciences

preprint info

List of preprint servers

Databases for Food Science

Agris [Open Access] The platform provides free access to more than 12 million records about publications in up to 90 different languages. It facilitates access to referring books, journal articles, monographs, book chapters, datasets and grey literature - including unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, dissertations and conference papers in the area of food and agriculture.
CAB Abstracts (Ovid) A database covering international issues in agriculture, forestry, and allied disciplines in the life sciences. --- The database contains over 3.5 million records from over 11,000 journals. books, conferences, reports, and other kinds of literature published internationally. Subjects covered include animal and crop husbandry, animal and plant breeding, plant protection, genetics, forestry engineering, economics, veterinary medicine, human nutrition, and rural development. Coverage is from 1973 to the present, with abstracts in English prepared from papers originally published in over 75 different languages.
Medic The Finnish medical bibliographic database. Medic provides references to articles from about 40 medical journals as well as monographs, reports of universities and research institutions, meeting proceedings and academic dissertations. Medic is produced by Helsinki University Library.
MEDLINE (R) (Ovid) A premier international biomedical bibliographic database. --- Covering fields including biomedicine, clinical medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, allied health, and in addition biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.
Proquest Databases Provides tens of reference databases, some fulltext databases. Its possible to make searches in all of them or in each of them or in selected databases.
Pubmed A premier international biomedical bibliographic database. Citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.
Scopus (Elsevier) Scopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database containing all relevant literature. --- Subject areas covered --- * Life Sciences -- Health Sciences (including 100% coverage of Medline titles) -- Physical Sciences -- Social Sciences --- Worldwide coverage; more than half of Scopus content originates from Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region. --- References go back to 1996, abstracts go back further.
Web of Science WoS provides access to the following reference databases: Science Citation Expanded (SCI) 1945-, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) 1956-, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) 1975-, Book Citation Index 2005-; Conference Proceedings Citation Index 1990-. --- Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research.

Database Tutorials and Guides

EBSCOhost advanced searching video (2022, 2:36 min)
Ovid tutorials (i.e. CAB Abstracts)
ProQuest guide; advanced searching video (UTS Library 2020, 3:40 min)
ScienceDirect tutorials
Scopus tutorials
SpringerLink search tips
Web of Science search video (2021, 5:12 min)

Keenious search tool

Keenious is an AI-based tool that allows you to search for similar or related articles based on either an article or written text. The AI analyses the downloaded article, a link to the article, a selected passage from the article or a written text and recommends similar or related content. Keenious runs in either a web browser or Word application. Get to know Keenious better with our guide!

Statistics (in english)

Statistics (in finnish)

Luken tilastopalvelut The Natural Resources Institute Finland produces and publishes Finland's statistics on food and natural resources.
Ruokatieto - tilastotietoa elintarvikealasta Tietohaarukka - tilastotietoa elintarvikealasta -julkaisu on monipuolinen tilastopaketti koko ruokaketjusta, niin alkutuotannosta, elintarviketeollisuudesta kuin ruuan kulutuksestakin.
Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos - Tilastot ja data Statistics in the field of social welfare and health care
Tilasto- ja indikaattoripankki Sotkanet The Sotkanet Indicator Bank is a National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) information service that offers key population welfare and health data from 1990 onwards on all Finnish municipalities, based on the current administrative division into municipalities.