The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) is a database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. IBIDS is produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health to assist the public, health care providers, and researchers in locating credible, scientific literature on dietary supplements. IBIDS was developed and will be maintained through an interagency partnership with the Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The IBIDS database currently contains over 328,000 scientific citations and abstracts, wherever permission was given to use them. Due to copyright laws, IBIDS cannot provide full-text articles on the World Wide Web. However, to assist you, we provide a journal list of over 1,500 publications with links to their web sites where you may order the full journal article. You may also obtain them through your local public or university library or online through document delivery services.

IBIDS is designed to be user-friendly so individuals with all levels of expertise may access it easily. To assist those who might be unfamiliar with scientific terminology, a copy-and-paste keyword list is provided.

The IBIDS database is a dynamic project and continues to grow and improve through quarterly updates. The first update on May 3, 1999 added over 150,000 abstracts and 20,000 citations about dietary supplements. The most recent update on July 7, 1999 added many new search terms and over 27,000 new abstracts and citations. In addition, we are in negotiations to add citations from ten additional databases that will further expand this resource for everyone interested in scientific information on dietary supplements.

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