Download notice of FSTA® Food Science and Technology Abstracts Database Courseware and Journals Included

Release time: 2021-05-11

Source of the article: Reference Department

Author of the article: Zhang Bin

The FSTA database is an internationally recognized primary database of food science and technical literature related to human nutrition and health. It is published by the British IFIS Publishing Company. For more than 50 years, its unique FSTA thesaurus (Thesaurus) contains more than 13,300 professional articles. In terms of its coverage of the food industry, human nutrition and health sciences, it can be called the best in the world. It is designed to meet the needs of quickly and effectively accessing world monographs in the field of food and human nutrition and health sciences. It contains a wide range of content, involving food science and technology, biotechnology, microbiology, toxicology, nanotechnology, food safety, genetic modification All topics related to human nutrition and health, such as technology, public health, food additives, nutrition, beverages, food packaging, and pet food.

The types of documents included in FSTA® include articles published in academic journals and special issues (including 5475 journals, of which 1119 are current issues) and research papers, and contain more than 191,000 patent information (including European patents, PCT international patents, North America Patents and Japanese patents, etc.), professional reviews, industry standards (more than 39,000 food-related industry standards from 75 countries), professional books, professional academic reports, more than 20,000 professional conference proceedings, and more than 3,000 articles Important information such as professional doctoral and master's thesis. FSTA® has now been adopted by universities and scientific research institutions in more than 160 countries and regions around the world. The database has added more than 240,000 new records in the past three years. FSTA® provides a DOI link for each record it contains, and authorized users can directly click on the link to access the corresponding full text.

Download and use the courseware and the catalog of included journals and the introduction process:

Log in to the library homepage, click "Service"-"Reader Training"-"Training Courseware"