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FSTA - Resources for Librarians

A hub of resources to help build awareness, drive usage, and provide training for the FSTA database..

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FSTA® is the key database for faculty and students in the sciences of food and health.

FSTA empowers the global health community to search over 2 million high-quality records, without having to wade through irrelevant content or untrustworthy sources. Discover reliable articles from thousands of peer-reviewed journals and trade publications, patents, reviews, theses, conference proceedings, and more from around the world.

Powered by the world's most comprehensive food thesaurus, FSTA's unique indexing allows for precise and efficient searches. Find exactly what you need, when you need it.

For more information, visit www.ifis.org/fsta

We recommend tailoring the FSTA description for your university

To help you get the best value out of FSTA, we highly recommend taking the following steps to effectively communicate who at your university would benefit from using FSTA:

  • On your subject guide, tailoring the description of FSTA to include disciplines most relevant to your library users (e.g. departments and research centres)
  • Adding FSTA to all relevant subject guides, not just food science and technology. Although food-focused, it is a very interdisciplinary database!

 

WHAT'S COVERED IN FSTA
In addition to the core areas of food science, food technology and nutrition, FSTA includes relevant content across a host of related fields, including:

  • Agriculture
  • Agronomy
  • Analytical techniques
  • Animal science
  • Biotechnology
  • Brewing and distilling
  • Dairy science and dairy alternatives
  • Economics, business and management
  • Endocrinology
  • Environmental health
  • Epidemiology
  • Food manufacturing
  • Food safety
  • Metabolomics
  • Microbiology
  • Pet foods
  • Plant science
  • Psychology
  • Public health
  • Sport science
  • Tourism and hospitality
  • Toxicology
  • Veterinary medicine
  • Viticulture and oenology

This list does not include absolutely every area in FSTA, so if you would like to check about another discipline, get in touch and we will be very happy to answer any questions you might have. 

Find out more information about FSTA's interdisciplinary coverage

FSTA key facts

Name: FSTA® – Food Science and Technology Abstracts
Product Type: Database
Specialty: Food Science, Nutrition & Health
Language: English
Date Coverage: 1969 - Present
Data Type: Bibliographic with Abstracts
No. of Records: 2,100,000+
Update Frequency: Weekly
Records Added Annually: ~170,000 [based on 2023 figures]
Publication Types Indexed: Peer-Reviewed Journals, Books, Trade Publications, Conference Proceedings, Patents, Standards, Reports, Reviews and Theses
No. of Source Countries: 91
No. of Source Languages: 43

Publisher information

Publisher: International Food Information Service (IFIS)
Location: Ground Floor, 115 Wharfedale Road, Winnersh Triangle, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG41 5RB
Website: www.ifis.org/fsta