IS THERE A LIST OF CONTENTS FOR FSTA®?

Interdisciplinary Content

FSTA covers a wide range of interdisciplinary content, from journal articles and trade publications to conference proceedings and industry patents.

FSTA includes relevant content across a host of related fields, including (but not limited to) Health, Nutrition, Food Science, Environment and more.

For a list of areas that FSTA covers, from nutrition to microbiology to biotechnology and reformulation , take a closer look here at our subject coverage; FSTA - Database Subject Coverage (ifis.org)

We are happy to give you a list of journals we have indexed.

Please email Kerry Otto,  k.otto@ifis.org for this list. We do not make this freely available because it contains global resources that other database providers do not index. It is our “secret”.

However, if you would like to check if a certain journal is indexed, please use this tool Search the FSTA Journal Database | IFIS to search the database of indexed journals.

Every journal included in the FSTA database has gone through IFIS's quality checks, so you can be confident it is peer-reviewed and not a predatory journal.

Remember that FSTA also includes relevant patents, theses and conference proceedings, unlike other databases. The research is directly relevant to food from sources carefully vetted by industry experts, and the search functionality has been specifically designed to aid research among the food community.

• Carry out in-depth and targeted interdisciplinary research  1,840,000 entries directly related to food

• Set alerts for specific subjects, keywords and searches 

• Discover emerging research quickly, with more than 2,200 entries added every week

• Quickly navigate over 50 years of food-related research curated by experts in the sciences of food and health

FSTA has a unique number of records that are not indexed by other databases.

Hundreds of thousands of entries are “extra”. This means you are more likely to find the research you are looking for.

With FSTA, coverage is global geographically and it is multi-language. This gives you a much wider net to cast and find the crucial information you need. If you miss it, you miss out.

"1.84 Million records do not seem like many compared to other databases."

FSTA is a specific database with its own proprietary thesaurus and indexing for food and nutrition research. This is important because it is quality that you want, not numbers. Searching through 80 million entries that are irrelevant is going to waste time.

Around 3 in 10 entries in FSTA® are not to be found on other databases. That's more than 400,000 important food science documents. This is a huge amount of scientific research from the global food science community.

Imagine trying to complete a jigsaw where 3 out of 10 pieces are missing. It’s impossible to get the whole picture, especially if you cannot even see the picture in the first place.

It is not just the amount of unique content there is. The 16,000-word food science-specific thesaurus helps you find relevant information quickly.

Take a search for “spirits”.

When you do this, you want to be able to Narrow the Terms (NTs) and for that you need hierarchies​. The more Narrow Terms (NTs) you have, the more specific you can be and therefore the more relevant the results.

When you search popular databases the NTs vary greatly.

FSTA – ‘Spirits’, with 37 narrower terms (NTs)​ has a much better way of classifying the information than other databases.

This thesaurus has been built since 1969. That’s more than 50 years of expertise being applied to the data.

We are adding content to the database weekly, so do check back or email us to ask about a particular field. We can also put specific datasets together for you. Please let us know how we can help.