FSTA® FOR LIBRARIANS AND INFORMATION EXPERTS

Educational Institutions love FSTA®.

With the interdisciplinary nature of FSTA® it is indispensable for a wider range of subjects in food science than other non-specialist databases. Using FSTA® as an undergraduate or masters student helps get better grades. It solves the problem of poor citations leading to poorer marks.

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 because a reputation is hard-won but easily damaged.

The Academic environment is changing constantly due to global and local competition between institutions, government policies, legislation, and new technologies.

Some stakeholders actively try to improve and adapt while others are happy with the status quo.

Our role is to help those organizations who want to improve and achieve their goals.

We are firmly committed to helping universities in the following ways;

• improve academic grades

• avoid wasted time

• reduce any reputational damage

• maximise funding opportunities

The current approach of using databases that contain predatory and fake journals, that do not cover the inter-disciplinary nature of food science and have implicit bias (for example, bias towards English language results only or single publisher content) is unsafe. These old ways no longer work.

Research Excellence Frameworks.

With 85% of Professors surveyed expressing concerns about the source research material used to underpin published works, and 12.5% of all research carried out in the bioscience sphere  wasted because of flawed literature search methods, and our direct experience of the number (50 rejected in last 2 years) of predatory journals that compromise research work and outputs, we estimate excellence frameworks and related scores show significant negative impacts if the quality of source information is ignored.

By helping and supporting librarians and information management professionals in their role at universities we can help academic librarians set their students and faculty members up for success.

FSTA® (Food Science and Technology Abstracts) is a comprehensive and reliable resource for food science and technology research that can help academic institutions achieve their goals.

When you have important questions you want important answers. That's what you get from FSTA® and is why Innocent Awasom, Associate Librarian at Texas Tech University says,

“FSTA provides quality information…it's core to the food science and technology industry,”

We also help and support Librarians help students and faculty use FSTA® with free training...

FSTA®  is best used by those who know how to use it. We help you every step of the way by giving you all the support you need and answering any questions you have. We know it is not enough for FSTA® to be a fantastic resource. We have to help users learn how to use the resource.

We have a training hub that is here; FSTA® User Training

Webinars and Screenshares FSTA®.

This course will help students in all research studies and will also enable them to demonstrate their expertise with an certificate of completion they can add to their CV or resume.