Start your free trial
Arrange a trial for your organisation and discover why FSTA is the leading database for reliable research on the sciences of food and health.
Arrange a trial for your organisation and discover why FSTA is the leading database for reliable research on the sciences of food and health.
FSTA® for Research Scientists in Food and Health
Exploring and building upon existing trusted research helps researchers identify knowledge gaps, refine methodologies, and ensure the novelty and significance of contributions.
Good positions in the academic and commercial world take a long time to acquire. It can be a long and intense process, and scientists need access to the best tools to maintain and enhance their careers. FSTA helps scientists do the work they have to do to be successful.
(We also help scientist publish their work to get more citations with a unique keyword tool based on our 16,000 strong food science thesaurus - see here for details)
That’s why scientists turn to FSTA as the world’s trusted resource for food science.
Terms indexed with comprehensive food and beverage 16,000-word thesaurus
Quality-checked to ensure there are no predatory journals or fake science
Every record is relevant to food and beverages
FSTA is independent of any publisher
FSTA provides access to relevant content across disciplines and sources
Data Analytics/Reporting/Alerts all available
Many people don’t know how to improve their search accuracy and don’t know what resources are available for research.
Familiarity and ease of use are often favoured over quality. That’s nobody’s fault, as everyone is under time pressure and it is difficult to keep up with progress or know all resources that are available.
But what if you could access all the genius minds who created the global knowledge of food science? Now you can.
Do faculty support the use of FSTA®?
Our Advisory Board has some of the best food science researchers in the world. We also have faculty members from 7 of the top 10 universities in food science and nutrition using FSTA®.
Often, the request for FSTA® comes from researchers and faculty who have learned about FSTA® and then approach us to get a trial. We then arrange this with the information specialist at the organisation along with training.
FSTA® is an extensive specialist database, in which carefully selected food, beverage and nutrition research and information are collated, summarised and indexed for efficient searching.
FSTA also makes connections through related concepts and opens up new avenues for researchers. Faculty members discover new ideas, and these are quite often from historical literature or from areas that other databases do not cover.
Whatever research you do, you need to make sure you are not citing fake science. The science needs to be safe.
You may already have non-food specialist databases that you use. PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science are three databases that may be part of your resources. You may be relying on Google or other free resources.
Generally, Scientists want to help make the world a better place through positive science. However, many databases commonly in use, contain information from Predatory Journals and that prevents scientists making progress, as well as wasting time and money.
These are journals that have unethical or purely financial motivations. They operate a “pay to play” model and do not do thorough checks. (You can read about how FSTA®’s entries are subject to scrutiny here; Assessing Journals for FSTA® | IFIS)
Taking one database as an example, Scopus, you can read that their quality issues have been raised by a number of academic studies.
Includes predatory journals (study in Economics area revealed 3% of journals were predatory) https://ideas.repec.org/p/fau/wpaper/wp2019_20.html
Lack of basic checking, See the article "The museum of errors/horrors in Scopus" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1751157715301462
It is also important to know that some databases have poor classification systems, duplicate records or under-represent some categories.
Poor classification system (journals with weak connections to categories handled badly) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1751157715301930
Duplicate records (12.5%) which lead to overrepresentation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1751157715000504
Non-English language journals under represented https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-015-1765-5
With 2000 additions a week, the unique searchability, (because of the indexing and thesaurus) the online instructional content and the support...all these elements combined demonstrate that FSTA® is not just a database. FSTA is a whole learning tool that enables researchers to do good science.
When you are evaluating a new resource, it’s normal to ask, “Do we need this database?” Or, “If we get it, will anyone use it?”
Our answer to these questions is first, FSTA® has unique content that is not found elsewhere (you don’t want to pay twice for the same information right?) and secondly, our Knowledge Hub is unique.
This is the instructional content and training we offer, where you, your students, researchers, and management can learn how to use FSTA® and benefit from the speed, clarity, and confidence it offers.
With millions of searches taking place on FSTA® every month, the definition of our company is determined by the successful outcomes of our clients.
