Resources for Webinar Attendees 

New FSTA Online Tutorial - Empower your students with research skills in the sciences of food & health

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.  

 

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Tutorial Part 1 (APPROX. 10 MINUTES)

  • What content FSTA includes
  • What content FSTA excludes (predatory journals and fake science)

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Tutorial Part 2 (APPROX. 20 MINUTES)

  • What the information in FSTA looks like—what is it exactly that you search when you search FSTA?
  • How the FSTA thesaurus helps organize that information, and helps you find what you need
  • How to choose and find keywords for building a search
  • How to connect keywords with Boolean operators to add precision to your search
  • How to apply filters for even more precision

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Tutorial Part 3 (APPROX. 30 MINUTES)

  • How to put your search skills into practice
  • Certificate of completion

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We would love for you to keep learning with us!

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.

Students and researchers - Resources for literature searching

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 content, practical advice and templates, our guide helps you 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.

This guide is also available in Italian!

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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.

Read the guide online or download and keep a copy.

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Get the best out of FSTA with user training

Visit the FSTA user training hub for:

  • Materials tailored to searching FSTA on EBSCOhost
  • Short videos on specific topics or full training sessions 
  • Downloadable pdfs of key tips
  • Schedule for training webinars

Also available on LibGuides

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Authors - Resources for journal publishing

Resources to help you feel confident about choosing where to submit and the process of preparing your paper for submission.

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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.

Read the guide or watch the videos

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Verify that a journal is credible, using the Journal Lookup Service

Search IFIS' database of indexed journals. Every journal in the FSTA database has gone through IFIS's quality checks, so you and your library users can be confident it is peer-reviews and not predatory.

Find out more and try it out

We want to hear what you think

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:

  • The FSTA user community - Sign up to occasionally receive invites to test new tools, answer surveys and potentially participate in calls and focus groups 
  • FSTA advisory board - Re-established in 2018, the board advises on subject coverage, content, and literature searching best practice

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