IFIS Publishing

IFIS
IFIS Publishing
Industry Publishing
Genre Academic
Founded 1968
Headquarters Reading, Berkshire

IFIS is an academic publishing company and not-for-profit organisation operating in the sciences of food and health.[1]

Based in Reading, IFIS produces an online bibliographic database, FSTA, a resource which the company has offered since 1969. IFIS also produces, in association with Wiley Blackwell, the Dictionary of Food Science & Technology, now in its second edition.[2]

As a not-for-profit charitable organisation, IFIS offers access to researchers in developing countries through the Research4Life programmes, HINARI and AGORA.[3]

In March 2016 IFIS announced the upcoming launch of a new food regulations and compliance database, Escalex, in collaboration with Molecular Connections,[4] which is for sale as of April 2017.[5]

History

Originally known as the International Food Information Service, IFIS was established in 1968 by the collaboration of four organisations:[6]

The company was originally based at Lane End House in Shinfield, though has recently moved to The Granary on Bridge Farm in Arborfield.

FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts

FSTA is a bibliographic abstracting and indexing (A&I) database for scientific and technological information relating to food, beverages, and nutrition. It contains over 1.3 million indexed records, with full-text links where available, covering over 5,475 active and historical journals, books, trade publications, reviews, conference proceedings, reports, patents, and standards.

The database is updated weekly with all records indexed against IFIS' thesaurus, containing over 12,346 food science keywords, curated and structured into hierarchies. The resource is used by researchers, industry practitioners, and students,[7] and it contains information sources in 29 languages, sourced from publishers in over 60 countries.

Coverage includes all major commodities in the food and beverage industry, related applied and pure sciences, pet foods, food psychology, food economics, food safety, and more.[8]

FSTA can be accessed through EBSCOhost,[9] Ovid,[10] Proquest Dialog,[11] STN[12] and Web of Science.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Official website". IFIS Official Website. IFIS. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Wiley Blackwell - Dictionary Entry". IFIS Publishing and Wiley Blackwell. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Research4Life". IFIS and Research4Life. Research4Life. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Molecular Connections". Molecular Connections Pvt Ltd. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
  5. ↑ "Main Escalex Webpage". IFIS. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Four Companies". About IFIS. IFIS. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Yelp IFIS Entry". Yelp. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  8. ↑ "FSTA" (online). FSTA. IFIS. 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  9. ↑ "EBSCOHost - FSTA". EBSCO. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "Ovid - FSTA". Ovid. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  11. ↑ "Dialog - FSTA" (PDF). ProQuest. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  12. ↑ "STN - FSTA" (PDF). STN. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  13. ↑ "Web of Science - FSTA". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
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