Advance: Enhance FSTA® through content and technology developments.
We plan to work with stakeholders to ensure FSTA continues to reflect the evolving sciences of food and health by including a wider breadth of topics and a greater diversity of international sources – as well as updating the FSTA thesaurus to mirror these changes.
Additionally, we will continue development of the FSTA platform in line with industry best-practices to deliver optimal user experience and accurate searching.
Communicate: Engage with the global food and health community to optimise information exchange.
We will continue to support the work of professional food science and technology associations, institutes and societies that share our goal of ensuring that information used in research and education is based on sound scientific principles. As part of this commitment, we will provide access to our services in areas where opportunities to use our resources would otherwise be limited via the HINARI, AGORA, ARDI and OARE programmes.
We will further empower the global food community to effectively search and retrieve information online by providing training material to increase information literacy – as well as publishing topical and relevant whitepapers.
Innovate: Develop new information services and knowledge-bases for the food and health community.
To increase the usability of IFIS products, we aim to develop search and retrieval platforms that are simple and intuitive to use, as well as able to perform in-depth targeted searches. We also want to develop new web-based tools that empower the global food community to process information and create links across data-sets.
We will continue to integrate a wider variety of sources from across the world to better connect the global food community, as well as developing our thesaurus to make it easier to navigate the variability in scientific and regulatory terminology used from one location to another.
Partner: Build productive relationships to support our strategic priorities.
Working closely with the scientific community, we will constantly improve our understanding of its information needs and ensure our solutions are always relevant, innovative and highly effective. We will also continue to identify information, technology and distribution partners who can help increase subscriptions to IFIS services, as well as expand our access to new markets and countries.
