This assignment requires you to research vitamins and minerals.  Below are some search suggestions in the library and then below that are a list of links to government websites that should be helpful. 

The Library has lots of reliable resources, including reference books and journals, to help you. Studies continually demonstrate a correlation between improved grades and library usage, so be sure to use the suggested research strategies provided on this page. 

Starting Out

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is a great database to begin your research. This database consists of reliable reference encyclopedias and handbooks, giving you an overview of the topic.

Suggested search strategy:

• Search the collection generally. Keyword suggestions:
  • vitamins
  • minerals
  • vitamins minerals children​

Finding Journal Articles and other Publications

You can also try expanding your research by using the box on the Search page of this research guide. This box, powered by EBSCO Discovery Service, will include everything EBSCO and our other databases has to offer.

Quick tip: To refine your search results even further, be sure to use the various limiters in all our database. These limiters include, but are not limited to, publication date range and source type.

A great way to narrow your results is to combine search terms. For example:

• vitamins
• minerals
• vitamins minerals children​

Quick tip: Using quotation marks is another way of narrowing your search results. The quotation marks tell the database to look for the words closer together (as a phrase):

• "vitamins minerals" women