Food Science and Technology

Australia. Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Food info Australia. Activities and programs undertaken by Aust. Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to support the development of the Australian food industry.  Links to free publications, food industry programs.

Australian Food News Baldwins, Australian Lawyers and Consultants.

The Blonz guide: Nutrition, Food & Health Resources

European Food Information Council

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Food and Nutrition Information Center (National Agricultural Library, U.S.) A directory to credible, accurate, and practical resources for consumers, nutrition and health professionals, educators and government personnel. Visitors can find printable format educational materials, government reports, research papers and more

Food Info Net  Comprehensive US site for information and services related to food technology, R&D and manufacturing.

Food navigator Europe A European view of the food and beverage technology industry

Food Science Australia Australia's largest food research organisation, joint ventuire of CSIRO and the Victorian government

Food Science Central gateway to free and subscription based information related to food science, food technology and food-related human nutrition. Produced by IFIS Publishing, the producers of Food Science and Technology Abstracts

International Food Information Council

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Databases

Databases to find journal articles and other publications

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AANRO:Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online Database
Incorporates Australian Bibliography of Agriculture (ABOA), Australian Rural Research in Progress (ARRIP) and Streamline.
A knowledge base of bibliographic and research information designed as a national decision support system and single access point for knowledge on Australian agriculture and natural resource management (ANR).
The AANRO knowledge base contains about 200,000 detailed descriptions of research projects and publications on Australian agriculture and natural resources.
Access: Freely available to all

Academic OneFile More than 1,500 journals in full text coverage includes physical sciences, technology, health, & social sciences.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network

Academic Search Premier  Full text for 4,000 publications and abstracts for 4,000 journals.  Covers every area of academic enquiry.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network

Agricola
Produced by the U.S. National Agricultural Library.  Subjects included: food and nutrition, marketing and trade, animals and livestock.
Access: Freely available to all
Time span: 1970+
Updated:  Daily

Agriculture & Natural Resources
Includes Australian agriculture, horticulture, fisheries, food production and technology and science, natural resources, animal husbandry and health, and related topics. Archival databases only.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Databases included are:
ANR Index 2000-2007
ANR Index Archive 1975-2007
ANR Research (Formerly ARRIP - Current and recently completed research) 2000-2007
ANR Research Archive (Formerly CARRP - Completed research projects) 1984-2007

AGRIS International information system for the agricultural sciences and technology. An FAO database with access to a large collection of world literature covering all aspects of agricultural sciences and technology, including grey literature which is not available through normal publication and distribution channels.
Access: freely available to all

ANR-Index
An Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan. A bibliographic database with informative abstracts and links to full text for agriculture and natural resources including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia\x92s environment, water and natural resources. Archival database only.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network
Time span: 2000-2007

ANR-Index Archive
(formerly ABOA and Streamline), produced by Infoscan, is a bibliographic database of older publications on agriculture and natural resources including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources. Archival database only.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network
Time span 1975-2007

ANR-Research
(formerly known as ARRIP), an Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan. A research in progress database that describes current and recently completed research projects across the agriculture and natural resources areas including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia\x92s environment, water and natural resources. Archival database only.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network
Time span: 1975-2007

ANR-Research Archive
(formerly known as CARRP), an Australian government initiative produced by Infoscan.  A research in progress database that contains completed research projects from the ANR-Research database) across the agriculture and natural resources areas including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia\x92s environment, water and natural resources. Archival database only.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network
Time span 1984-2007

ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources
ASFA 1 provides extensive coverage of basic and applied research on aquatic organisms. All aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms and environments are examined. Fisheries receive particular attention, with comprehensive sections on fishing methods, statistics, aquaculture, food technology, productivity, conservation, and marketing.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to Adelaide University staff and students, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: Biological Sciences and Living Resources 1971+
Updated: Monthly

Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online Database (AANRO)
Incorporates Australian Bibliography of Agriculture ABOA, Australian Rural Research in Progress (ARRIP) and Streamline.
A knowledge base of bibliographic and research information designed as a national decision support system and single access point for knowledge on Australian agriculture and natural resource management (ANR).
The AANRO knowledge base contains about 200,000 detailed descriptions of research projects and publications on Australian agriculture and natural resources.
Access: Freely available to all

Biosis Previews
Indexes articles from life sciences journals and items from conferences, meetings and symposia from 1980 onwards.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restricts access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: 1980+
Updated: Weekly

Biological sciences and living resources (ASFA 1) see ASFA 1

CAB Abstracts
Index with abstracts to over 11,000 journals as well as books, conferences, reports, theses etc.  Subjects covered include animal sciences, veterinary sciences, dairy science and technology, plant breeding and genetics, crop sciences, crop protection, environmental and natural resources, forestry, post-harvest science and technology, agricultural biotechnology, biodegradation, agricultural engineering, agricultural economics, rural development and sociology, leisure, recreation and tourism, human nutrition, tropical diseases and medical parasitology.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span: 1910+
Updated: Quarterly

Chemical Abstracts online see SciFinder Scholar

Current Contents Connect
Current Contents Connect is a service by ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) which provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data of current issues of more than 8,000 science, social sciences, arts and humanities leading scholarly journals. It has a useful email alert facility which allows weekly update search results to be emailed to you automatically.
Time span: Last 4 years
Updated: Daily.

Ei compendexWeb
The most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today. Coverage includes chemical and process engineering, agricultural engineering and food technology.
Time span: 1884+

Google Scholar
A free service for searching scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Access: Freely available to all.

International bibliographic information on dietary supplements (IBIDS) database
a database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements that is available to the public free of charge. The purpose of this database is to assist both scientists and the general public in locating credible, scientific literature on dietary supplements.
Access: Freely available to all.

Medline from Web of Knowledge
Indexes international journals in biomedical research, health policy, health care and clinical practice. Not as comprehensive as PubMed (see below).
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University
community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.

NUTTAB 2006
Contains data on the nutrient content of foods available in Australia. This version contains approximately 2600 foods and includes nutrient values for up to 169 nutrients. Includes a search function for easy food and nutrient finding.
Access: Freely available to all

Prime Notes
Contains fact sheets and research summaries from all departments of primary industries and agriculture Australia-wide. Topics covered include crop production, horticulture, pastures, aquaculture, landcare, animal husbandry and health, farm safety and farm business management.
Access: Available at Roseworthy and Waite Libraries only.

PUBMED
A free, customised version of Medline which includes links to full text articles (University of Adelaide users only) and sequence databases. See Library tutorial on searching PubMed.
Access: Freely available to all
Time span: 1966+

SAGE
A bibliographic database indexing popular journals across a broad range of subjects, including science, environmental science, natural history, agriculture, recreation. Most journals indexed are Australian but several overseas titles are also included.
Some SAGE online records have links to the full text article.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University
community, for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: 1984+

Science Citation Index see Web of Science

ScienceDirect
Contains the full text of journals published by Elsevier Science in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community (including staff belonging to SAMHS and PIRSA/SARDI), for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.

SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts online)
The database version of Chemical abstracts, indexes chemical, biochemical and chemical engineering journals, patents, books, conferences, dissertations. It is based on the CAplus, CASREACT, and Registry databases from Chemical Abstracts Service. It also includes the Medline database.
You can use the database on student/staff computers in all the Libraries. Access from outside the Library in University Departments needs installation of software -- follow the link for instructions.
Installation instructions
Help guide
Access: Not available outside the University network.  Access restricted to University of Adelaide staff and students for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use.
Time span: Full searching from 1967 onward, and more limited searching from 1907-1966.
Updated: Daily

Scirus (Elsevier)
Scirus searches scientific, technical and medical Web pages and reports and journal articles from a selection of publishers and databases.
Access: Freely available to all.

Scopus
Scopus and Web of science are large databases covering science and other subjects and allowing cited reference searching (finding articles that have cited a given article). The 1980 onwards date range of Web of science makes it the more useful database for cited reference searching.
Scopus and Web of science can also be searched by topic but they lack the depth of coverage of a biological database such as Biosis previews.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the University of Adelaide community (including staff belonging to SAMHS and PIRSA/SARDI), for purposes of non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Time span:1996 onwards for cited reference searching and 1966 onwards for topic searching.

USDA/CRIS database
USDA's Current Research Information System for ongoing and recently-completed research projects in agriculture, food, nutrition and forestry.
Access: Freely available to all.

Web of Science (Institute for Scientific Information)
Comprising Science Citation Index; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Web of Science indexes a wide range of journal articles in all fields. As well as standard topic searches, it allows searches for articles that have cited a given author, article, book or other item.
Access: Use of this resource is governed by license agreements which restrict access to members of the Adelaide University community, for purposes of  non-commercial research, education or personal use. Access is available from both within and outside the University network.
Timespan: 1980+
Updated: Weekly

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