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Food Science: Finding Journal Articles
If a topic is too current or too specific to be covered by a handbook, encyclopedia, or book, it may be discussed in journal articles, research
reports, or conference papers. Access to this literature has traditionally been through indexing and abstracting services. There is no universal
index that covers all the published information in food science, so at times you may have to consult several sources.
Electronic Databases
Electronic databases provide comprehensive searching of indexes or articles via the computer. Searching these databases is faster and often more
complete since subject terms can be combined to locate a topic.
To search these databases, use the Information System workstations located in the D. H. Hill Library or the branch libraries. Many of
these databases can be searched from off campus via the NCSU Libraries Proxy Server. You will need a Unity account to login.
Unity computing accounts (or Eos accounts for Engineering students) are automatically generated for all students, faculty and staff at
NC State. If you do not know what your Unity login is, go to NCSU Computing Resources' Unity/Eos Help Page.
The databases that index articles about food science are listed below. Use one or more of the databases to search for references to
journal articles. These articles may include a summary or abstract of the article, but they do not usually have the full text of the
article. To read the journal articles you have identified, use the NCSU Library Catalog to find out if the NCSU Libraries has the journal.
Agriculture and Life Sciences databases.
To search one of these databases, go to the NCSU Libraries Database Finder. Then select a subject-- Example: Food Science.
- AGRICOLA
Agriculture and related literature indexed by the National Agricultural Library (NAL). Indexes journals, books, theses,
patents, software, audiovisual materials, technical reports, and agricultural experiment station reports held by the NAL.
Use the Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA (JIA) database (http://www.nal.usda.gov/indexing/jia.html)
to find the full title for the journal abbreviation found in AGRICOLA.
Note: you must include punctuation marks in your search. For example, to find out if J. food sci. is indexed in AGRICOLA, search
for J. food sci. (not J food sci) in Abbreviated Title.
- Biological Abstracts
Provides comprehensive indexing of worldwide journal literature in the life sciences. Coverage: 1980- present. Updated quarterly.
- CAB Abstracts
Worldwide index to agriculture, forestry, and allied disciplines, including animal and human nutrition. From the Centre for Agriculture
& Biosciences International. Coverage: 1972- present. Updated quarterly.
- Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts: select Biological Sciences subfiles, including Chemoreception Abstracts, and Health and Safety Science Abstracts. Also select:
- Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
Includes "research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering."
Coverage: 1982- present. Updated monthly.
- Microbiology Abstracts
Microbiology Abstracts provides comprehensive coverage of research in microbiology--including food microbiology--and related fields.
Includes Microbiology Abstracts Section A: Industrial & Applied Microbiology; Microbiology Abstracts Section B: Bacteriology;
and Microbiology Abstracts Section C: Algology, Mycology, and Protozoology. Coverage: 1981- present. Updated: monthly.
- Safety Science and Risk Abstracts
Provides "comprehensive...information across the fields of public health, safety, and industrial hygiene." Coverage:
1981- present. Updated monthly.
- Food
Science and Technology Abstracts
FSTA delivers comprehensive coverage of the food sciences, food products, and food processing, including the relevant basic sciences:
biotechnology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, microbiology, engineering, and toxicology, as well as economics and legislation.
Processes covered in FSTA include the following: manufacturing, quality control automation, packaging, and more. FSTA indexes
1,600 scientific journals on food science and food technology published internationally, as well as, information from books,
proceedings, reports, reviews, pamphlets, patents, standards, theses, and legislation. Coverage: 1969- . Updated quarterly.
- SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts and MEDLINE)
Chemical Abstracts is the most comprehensive index for chemical research. It covers more than 10,000 journals, as well as books,
conference proceedings, and patents. You may search Chemical Abstracts by general subject, chemical substance name, molecular formula,
ring system structure, author, or patent number. Coverage: 1947-present. Updated daily to weekly. (Note: MEDLINE coverage is 1958-present.
Updated weekly.)
Digital access to the Chemical Abstracts Database is available to NCSU Library users via the Web. Access to this database is
restricted to NC State University IP addresses and is currently available for use on the public workstations located near the
reference desk at D. H. Hill Library.
Client Distribution Page (Instructions for downloading the software).
SciFinder Scholar search tips and other resources
Other databases.
Please note that the NCSU Libraries will not have some of the journals indexed by these databases. To see if we have the journal you need, use the NCSU Libraries catalog to search for the journal title (not the title of the article).
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