1. Use your library if you have one! If you are affiliated with a university, you probably have free library access to the full text of millions of research articles. The library will have subscribed to these journals on your behalf. The smartest thing you can do for accessing research articles is familiarize yourself with your own library. …

Phrase searching and proximity searching are techniques that allow a researcher to control one word’s relationship to another in a literature search. Phrase searching is widely known and widely used. It can be very helpful but has the potential to be a dangerous searching technique! Proximity searching is related to…

Systematic reviews are a reassessment of scholarly literature to facilitate decision making. This methodical approach of re-evaluating evidence was initially applied in healthcare, to set policies, create guidelines and answer medical questions. Systematic reviews are large, complex projects and, depending on the purpose, they can be quite expensive to conduct…

Boolean operators are the bones of any good literature search. These operators — or connecting words — tell a database how to combine search terms. Researchers use them to configure their searches to find more precise and relevant results. Knowing how to use them correctly makes all the difference between…

The importance of daily protein intake has long been recognized. With the coronavirus pandemic, alongside global food security issues and climate change, the need to identify sustainable sources of protein is more pressing than ever. Traditional animal sources of proteins, such as meat, have become increasingly controversial as consumers become…

Guest post written by Ciara Cullen (Partner) and Hannah Ridzuan-Allen (Associate) at RPC. CBD products no longer “ex-hemp” from regulation In recent years, there has been a surge in demand for food and drink products containing cannabidiol (CBD). Popular items have ranged from oils with added CBD to CBD-infused chocolate and kombucha. With the market experiencing double-digit…

Patents are rich and valuable information sources for food science and nutrition research, but searching for them can be a complicated business. Fortunately, the database FSTA is designed to make it easy for researchers to locate patents related to food and nutrition. From there it is a simple step to…

Posted by Joanna Becker on 04-Sep-2020 14:31:00 Around 20% of the western world’s population live with a food intolerance or malabsorption syndrome [1], The British Nutrition Foundation defines a “Food Intolerance as a range of adverse responses to food, including allergic reactions resulting from enzyme deficiencies, pharmacological reactions and other…

At IFIS Publishing, we pride ourselves on getting to know and understand our customers. But who are they and how can we help them? Taken literally, our customers are the organizations who subscribe to the FSTA database. This comprises universities, food companies, government bodies, and research institutes around the world. Because they buy and access FSTA via one of our platform partners such as EBSCO, Ovid or Web of Science, many of our customers…