The USDA Research Database contains the information on ongoing and recently completed projects sponsored or conducted primarily within the USDA and State university research system. Some 30,000 project summaries, including latest progress reports and lists of recent publications coming out of the research, are maintained in the file on an ongoing basis.
Projects on human nutrition research of the Federal agencies are also included in the database. These are maintained in the Human Nutrition and Information Management System (HNRIMS) subfile. Updated annually, the HNRIMS subfile is prepared jointly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The subfile currently contains some 4,000 summaries of human nutrition research projects conducted or sponsored by the USDA, NIH and other Federal agencies.