LibGuides: Food and Nutrition: Books

Reference Books

The BGSU Libraries own hundreds of food and nutrition reference books. This is just a sample of the available reference books that may be useful.

The library provides access to more than 50,000 books from a variety of sources. For information about ebooks, see the online guide to Ebooks.

When you know the title of the item you are seeking, the first step is to search by title in an online catalog.

BGSU Libraries Catalog
Indexes books, magazines and journals, videos, music, and electronic resources that are owned by BGSU.
OhioLINK Central Catalog
If BGSU doesn't own the book, try the OhioLINK Central Catalog. It contains the holdings of the libraries at more than 80 colleges and universities throughout Ohio. You can request OhioLINK books online and have them delivered in 2-4 days.
WorldCat
WorldCat is a database of the holdings of many libraries throughout North American and some other countries. If you identify a publication you want to borrow, you can use your Illiad account to request it.

National Academies Press ebooks can now be downloaded for free. This includes many books on food nutrition. A few recent releases:

More ebooks can be found at the National Academies Press website.

See the Theses & Dissertations LibGuide for information about how to find doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

National Technical Reports Library
This free database searches more than 3 million reports, of which more than 800,000 are full text. The reports cover many scientific and medical subject areas, including nutrition and food safety.