Food Science and Technology Abstracts (via EBSCOhost)
Latest screenshot: 2023-04-10
Access to search interface:
paywalled
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
EBSCO Industries Inc.
Location of system headquarters:
Ipswich, US
Year of launch:
N/A
Type:
Aggregators' database
URL:
N/A
Help URL:
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X-Handle:
Description of database (by system owner)
Trusted by researchers, scientists, students and government bodies in 158 countries across the globe, FSTA is the definitive way to search over fifty years of historic and emerging research in the sciences of food and health. Covering a wide range of interdisciplinary content, from journal articles and trade publications to conference proceedings and industry patents, FSTA is full of high-quality scientific abstracts – with more than 2,200 new entries added every week.
Description of search system (by system owner)
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For more than 70 years, we’ve partnered with libraries to improve research with quality content and technology.
Notes
Review of Food Science and Technology Abstracts (not full text database).
Total coverage:
1.87M
Year-over-year growth (2021-2022):
-35.42%
Subject coverage:
Multidisciplinary
Retrospective coverage:
1968–2023
Record types:
7
Open Access records:
N/A
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
extensive
Backward citation searching:
limited
Forward citation searching:
limited
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
5
Query
Latency with short query:
2.25 seconds
Latency with long query:
2.1 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
20
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
3000 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
2000 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
5
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
7
Results filters:
11
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
N/A
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
N/A
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
30000
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
25000
Export formats:
11
API:
upon request
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
N/A
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
N/A
