Food Science

Faculty Information Adviser:
Michael Veitch

email : LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

Information Skills Adviser for student enquiries:
Katherine Dike 020 7815 6605
email: LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

Core E-resources

British Standards Online [electronic resource].
Database contains all current British Standards in full text. EN and ISO standards if adopted by British Standards appear in full text.

CRCNetBase Food Science and Culinary Science [electronic resource].
This collection allows libraries to access expert guidance on food safety, quality assurance, processing, brewing, regulations, and microbiology. This collection offers information on latest functional foods, antioxidants, foodborne pathogens, and packaging technologies. This e-library comes complete with new edition of Fenaroli’s Handbook of Food Additives.

Pubget [electronic resource].
PubGet is an online service which allows users to directly access PDF article records from PubMed Date Coverage: 1951- present. Occasional articles predating 1951. Subject Coverage: Life, clinical and biomedical sciences In addition to being able to view full text articles to which LSBU subscribes, users can preview the full text of articles from journals which LSBU does not subscribe. Access Restrictions: Basic access available to all, increased full text available to LSBU affiliates only.

Background E-resources

Index to Theses [electronic resource].
Covers dissertations accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of UK and Ireland, from 1716 to the present. Gives abstracts of theses published 1970 and onwards.

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

E-Books

MyiLibrary [electronic resource].
MyiLibrary provides a faster and easier way to access collections of books, reports, journals, bulletins and other documents published by inter-governmental organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations and International Labour Organisation.

Journals Collections & Newspapers

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Emerald [electronic resource].
Access to management research journals from MCB University Press. The service provides access to over 20,000 management articles, with a full text archive going back to 1994.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), Arts and Humanities Citation Index, BIDS-ISI [electronic resource].
References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly. Includes:
SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX:
Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

SpringerLink [electronic resource].
Provides online, full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.

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Selected Websites for this area.

Arbor Nutrition Guide
An extensive worldwide source of information on nutrition - contains applied nutrition, clinical nutrition, etc.

CAB International (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International)
An intergovernmental organisation which provides information, publishing and scientific services worldwide to agriculture, forestry, human health and the management of natural resources.

Europa - European Union
Europa, the official EU server, contains comprehensive information on the work and policies of the union. Multilingual.

FAOSTAT - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
An online and multilingual database containing international statistics in areas such as food, nutrition, etc.

Foodbase
The Food Standards Agency's open access repository containing the full text over 600 technical reports.

Institute of Food Technologists (USA)
The activities and publications and science communications of the institute of Food Technologists (USA) - the Society for Food Science and Technology.

Institute of Food Science and Technology (UK) (IFST)
The activities and publications of the institute of Food Science and Technology. (UK) (IFST)

Leatherhead Food Research Association (UK)
An independent food research organisation. Serves the technical and information needs of the food and drinks industry worldwide.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Government information on the essentials of life - water, food, air. land, people, animals and plants

Royal Society of Chemistry
The activities and publications of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Information on a wide range of chemical topics.

Scirus
The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web

University of Reading (UK) Department of Food
The activities and publications of the School of Food and Biosciences at the University of Reading.

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