Use reference books for basic information on your organization.

• Food : a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms  TX349 .P353 2000
• The Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America  TX349 .E45 2004 v.1 & 2
• Encyclopedia of food and culture  GT2850 .E53 2003 v.1 - 3
• The Oxford companion to food  TX349 .D38 1999
• Nectar & ambrosia : an encyclopedia of food in world mythology  GR498 .A53 2000
• The Cambridge world history of food  TX353 .C255 2000 v.1 & 2

You can access books from Dension's library and other libraries in Ohio.

• The CONSORT Library Catalog gives you access to books at Denison, Kenyon, Ohio Wesleyan and the College of Wooster.
• OhioLINK allows you to find and request books in other university libraries in Ohio. They arrive in 3-6 days.
• WorldCat is a catalog of materials held worldwide. Materials in WorldCat that are not available through CONSORT and OhioLINK can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

Use a 'keyword' search to find materials inside a book or a 'subject' search to look for books by subject.

Indexes & Databases

Look for journal articles, newspaper articles and government information about the food industry and its future, fast food trends, or to find information on nutrition and health effects of current trends in food consumption by searching in some general databases and other electronic resources.

• Academic Search Complete
A general database including articles on many topics among them food science and technology.

• Business Source Complete
Want to find out about the food industry from the point of view of business.  This database provides full text access to journal articles in scholarly and trade business publications.

• Lexis-Nexis Academic
Covers late breaking news, case-law, company backgrounds, biographies, and more.  Indexes newspapers (including local, regional, and national), magazines, broadcast transcripts, and more. Updated weekly; most material is full-text. Also, look for testimony and search "Inside Washington".
• Lexis-Nexis Congressional
Offers access to information by and about the United States Congress, including Congressional publications from 1970 to the present, CIS Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970, testimony from congressional hearings, bills as they move through the House and Senate, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, information about members and committees, and more.
• AGRICOLA

This database provides information of agricultural practice and related activities. Look here for information on organic farming, genetically altered crops, etc. 


• International Political Science Abstracts

Looking for journal articles concerning government policy on food, food production or nutrition.  Try this data base.

The AP Multimedia Archive may have photos you might want to include in your report or use in your class discussion.

Websites

• Evaluating information found on the web
  
• USDA - Food and Nutrition
  Web Site includes information on government food policy, food assistance, nutrition, food safety and other food and nutrition related topics.
• U.S. FDA
  Look here for information on food safety and regulation.
• Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
  
• Library of Selected non-FDA Sources of Food and Nutrition Information