"Food Science Abstract Database FSTA" EBSCO Platform Training Lecture Notice
Published: 2021-04-09
Article Source: Reference Department
Author: Zhang Bin
1. Introduction to IFIS Publishing Company: a non-profit publisher supporting food and health science research
British IFIS Publishing Company was founded more than 50 years ago to solve the challenges faced by researchers in the field of food science, technology and nutrition, and their need to find relevant scientific literature. The Food Science and Technology Abstracts Database FSTA is the most critical part of the mission of IFIS Publishing Company. It is a search tool dedicated to scientific research documents in this complex interdisciplinary field. FSTA collects all publications related to the subject field (regardless of where they are published) and screens them to exclude unreliable (so-called) scientific publications published by predatory publishers. Researchers can fully trust that the documents they find using FSTA are reliable and relevant to their research discipline. The core competitiveness of FSTA lies in the world’s most extensive and in-depth professional thesaurus ( Thesaurus ) in the field of food science and nutrition. It helps scholars, teachers and students in the field of food science and nutrition and health quickly and without omission. Find the required documents.
In the past year, IFIS Publishing Company has expanded its support for the research work of researchers and students in the field of food science and nutrition and health. Including the establishment of the "Best Practice Standards for Food Science Literature Retrieval" presented in the form of a guide and reviewed by an expert committee composed of top international scholars in the field; IFIS has also developed a tool to help professionals in this field Authors of papers identify and recommend reputable journals suitable for publishing the academic papers they have written.
2. Lecture topic: IFIS Publishing Company provides professional information resources for scientific research in the field of food and health
3. The database is logged in to the EBSCO platform link in the school :
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=fss
4. Lecture content :
The training we will introduce users FSTA database and how to use it, including how to make the FSTA Thesaurus ( Thesaurus ) to establish an excellent search strategy; literature search shows best practice guidelines; demonstrates "Journal Recommendation Service JRS " - this A service tool specially developed to facilitate the publication of papers by teachers and students majoring in food science and nutrition and health.
5. Lecture outline
( 1 ) Introduction to FSTA, a professional database of food and health sciences
-The scope and content of the database
- Thesaurus ( Thesaurus)
Why use it
How to use it
-Establish a comprehensive search strategy
- Find Food Science and Nutrition Health professional literature : Patents and standards
( 2 ) Best Practice Guidelines for Food and Health Science Literature Retrieval
- Chapters and Templates
( 3 ) Journal recommendation service JRS
- Demos
6. Lecture time: 2021 Nian 4 Yue 16 Ri 14 : 30
7. Lecture Venue: Room 215 , School of Food Science, Nanjing Agricultural University
8. Training lecturer: Zhang Yi
