IFIS Publishing

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IFIS
IFIS Publishing
IndustryPublishing
GenreAcademic
Founded1968
Headquarters
Reading, Berkshire

IFIS is an academic publishing company and not-for-profit organisation operating in the sciences of food and health. [1]

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Based in Reading, IFIS produces the online bibliographic database, FSTA, a resource which the company has offered since 1969. FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts) includes over 2 million scientific non-predatory records from trusted sources, all related to disciplines surrounding food and beverages.

As a not-for-profit organisation and educational charity, IFIS:

IFIS work with a global network of regulatory experts in their Meet the Partners tool, [5] and they produce Escalex Limits News and Alerts, a curated news and alerts service for legal developments in food. [6]

IFIS also produces, in association with Wiley Blackwell, the Dictionary of Food Science & Technology, now in its second edition. [7]

History

Originally known as the International Food Information Service, IFIS was established in 1968 by the collaboration of four organisations: [8]

The company was originally based at Lane End House in Shinfield, and moved to The Granary on Bridge Farm in Arborfield. Having moved in June 2020, they are now based in Winnersh Triangle, Berkshire, UK.

FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts

FSTA is a bibliographic abstracting and indexing (A&I) database for scientific and technological information relating to food, beverages, and nutrition. It contains over 1.5 million indexed records, with full-text links where available, covering over 5,475 active and historical journals, books, trade publications, reviews, conference proceedings, reports, patents, and standards.

The database is updated weekly with all records indexed against IFIS' thesaurus, containing over 13,000 food science keywords, curated and structured into hierarchies. The resource is used by researchers, industry practitioners, and students, [9] and it contains information sources in 29 languages, sourced from publishers in over 60 countries.

Coverage includes all major commodities in the food and beverage industry, related applied and pure sciences, pet foods, food psychology, food economics, food safety, and more. [10]

FSTA can be accessed through EBSCOhost, [11] Ovid, [12] Proquest Dialog, [13] STN [14] and Web of Science. [15]

Launched in February 2022, was the FSTA database - with new full-text capability. FSTA with Full Text is produced in collaboration with EBSCO and is available exclusively on the EBSCO platform. Allowing users to quickly discover authoritative, food-focused research. Topics include::

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">EBSCO Information Services</span> Distributor of eBooks and other digital media

EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a private company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of many types around the world. Its products include EBSCONET, a complete e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost, which supplies a fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives. In 2010, EBSCO introduced its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to institutions, which allows searches of a portfolio of journals and magazines.

The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of information science published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Association for Information Science and Technology. The journal publishes original research and rapid communications, as well as book reviews and announcements of the association. Occasional special issues appear with contents focused on a single topic area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Food Science and Technology Abstracts</span> Scientific publication database

FSTA, also known as FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts, is produced by IFIS Publishing.

The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes empirical research related to applied behavior analysis. It was established in 1968 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. The editor-in-chief is John Borrero.

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CINAHL is an index of English-language and selected other-language journal articles about nursing, allied health, biomedicine and healthcare.

Genes, Brain and Behavior is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in the fields of behavioral, neural, and psychiatric genetics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. The journal was established in 2002 as a quarterly and is currently published monthly. G2B is a hybrid open access journal, but two years after publication all content is available for free online.

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Biological Abstracts is a database produced by Clarivate Analytics. It includes abstracts from peer-reviewed academic journal articles in the fields of biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, pre-clinical and experimental medicine, pharmacology, zoology, agriculture, and veterinary medicine, and has been published since 1926.

BIOSIS Previews is an English-language, bibliographic database service, with abstracts and citation indexing. It is part of Clarivate Analytics Web of Science suite. BIOSIS Previews indexes data from 1926 to the present.

<i>Journal of Forensic Sciences</i> Academic journal

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CAB Direct is a source of references for the applied life sciences It incorporates two bibliographic databases: CAB Abstracts and Global Health. CAB Direct is an access point for multiple bibliographic databases produced by CABI. This database contains over 11 million bibliographic records, which includes 746,000 full text articles. It also includes noteworthy literature reviews. News articles and reports are also part of this combined database. CAB Direct has now migrated to CABI's new platform CABI Digital Library - the new home of CABI's research content. https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/

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<i>Clinical Otolaryngology</i> Academic journal

Clinical Otolaryngology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the field of otorhinolaryngology. It was established in 1976 as Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences, obtaining its current title in 2005. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of ENT UK and the British Otorhinolaryngology & Allied Sciences Research Society (BOARS). The journal's scope is described as"clinically oriented research papers ... dealing with: current otorhinolaryngological practice; audiology, otology, balance, rhinology, larynx, voice and paediatric ORL; head and neck oncology; head and neck plastic and reconstructive surgery; and continuing medical education and ORL training."

References

  1. ↑ "Official website". IFIS Official Website. IFIS. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Research4Life". IFIS and Research4Life. Research4Life. 2 February 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Literature Search Best Practice". IFIS Publishing. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "E-learning Course for Effective Searching". IFIS Publishing. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Meet the Partners". IFIS Publishing. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "Escalex Limits News and Alerts". IFIS Publishing. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  7. ↑ "Wiley Blackwell - Dictionary Entry". IFIS Publishing and Wiley Blackwell. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  8. ↑ "Four Companies". About IFIS. IFIS. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  9. ↑ "Yelp IFIS Entry". Yelp. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "FSTA" (online). IFIS. 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  11. ↑ "EBSCOHost - FSTA". EBSCO. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  12. ↑ "Ovid - FSTA". Ovid. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  13. ↑ "Dialog - FSTA" (PDF). Retrieved 27 April 2017– via ProQuest.
  14. ↑ "STN - FSTA" (PDF). STN. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  15. ↑ "Web of Science - FSTA". Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
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