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Thank you for joining us for our recent webinar. Along with the recording, we have brought together all of the great resources mentioned. These have been developed to help students and researchers feel confident finding information and publishing in journals. If you can't find something or you have any questions, email us and we will be happy to help.
We regularly hold webinars on research skills, which are free to everyone. Recent sessions have included:
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We also regularly hold university and company-specific sessions, working with the library and/or faculty. If you are interested in arranging a free session for you and your colleagues or students, get in touch.
Original research and robust articles require a comprehensive and systematic literature review. And an effective literature review is always built on the foundation of a high quality literature search.
Make sure you use the right tool for your literature searches. We're here to help!
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Best Practice Guide for Literature Searching
Through explanatory notes and practical, step-by-step guidance, we aim to help you understand how to effectively plan and carry out your literature searches.
Read it on LibGuides, download and keep a copy, or add the e-learning module to your library LMS.
Good Review Practice: A researcher guide to systematic review methodology
This practical guide provides advice on comprehensive searching, and clear and unbiased reporting. It also includes advice on how to follow standard methodology practices, key tools to use, and much more.
Get the best out of FSTA with user training
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Also available on LibGuides
Resources to help you feel confident about choosing where to submit and the process of preparing your paper for submission.
Journal Look Up Service
You don't want to accidentally cite or publish in a predatory journal, but it can be challenging to know for sure that a journal is trustworthy.
Search the journal name in our database of journals. Every journal included in the FSTA database has gone through IFIS's quality checks, so if we index it, you can be confident it is peer-reviewed and not a predatory journal.
Guide to getting published in journals
A companion to help you navigate the process of selecting appropriate journals, and understand factors which might influence your decision of where to submit.
Learn about types of open access, Impact Factors and other metrics, predatory journals, what to expect from peer review, and more.
Our mission as a not-for-profit publisher and educational charity is to understand and meet the information needs of the food community. It was why the International Food Information Service was created in 1968 and it still drives us today.
We have a number of new initiatives to help us hear the thoughts of the food community, and we would love more people to be involved. If you are interested, we are currently recruiting for:
Everything in FSTA is checked for quality and relevance to food and beverages, so you don’t have to waste time trawling through irrelevant results and poor quality, predatory journals.
Trusted by researchers, scientists, students and government bodies in 158 countries across the globe, FSTA is the definitive way to search over fifty years of historic and emerging research in the sciences of food and health. Find out more about FSTA, or request a free trial.
We are excited to share that we will soon launch a new FSTA Trend Analytics platform and sector-specific segments of FSTA. Sign up for alerts to hear about these as soon as they're released, as well as other news and developments.
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