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Food Processing

A Research Guide

ANFS 409/609

URL for this page: http://www2.lib.udel.edu/branches/anfs409.htm

Getting Started

The Library has a guide Starting Library Research, which includes:

For general information and background reading, use Delcat, the Library's catalog, using such subject terms as:

Food industry and trade
Food processing plants
Food -- Preservation
A general concept, such as Canned foods or Dried foods or Vegetables-- processing
An approach to solving the problem, such as Food--safety measures

Major Databases Covering Food Processing

AGRICOLA
A large but easy to use database of resources in all agricultural sciences, especially the applied sciences in agriculture, engineering, and resource economics. Includes books, book chapters, microforms, media, as well as journal articles. It provides coverage of mostly English language materials, with particular strength in federal and state publications. It covers a longer time period than many other databases, 1970-

Biological Sciences Set
Citations, with abstracts, to articles, books, conference proceedings, monographs, and reports relating to the biological, medical, and agricultural sciences. 1982- .

CAB Abstracts
Citations, with abstracts, to journal articles relating to animal production, veterinary science, crop science, forestry, and agricultural engineering. The best way to find European agricultural sources. 1990- .

Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder)
This database extensively covers the literature of chemistry and chemical engineering, including the application of chemistry to agriculture. You search this in "normal language" free text form by using a phrase like "food spoilage". This is a Web resource, but you must set up a personal account on your computer.

Compendex
The principal source for information from engineering journals, technical reports, and conference proceedings.

Web of Science
A major resource, covering all fields of science and other disciplines, allowing a cross-subject search from literature of many fields. Also allows the researcher to identify more recent articles via a search of older works cited in lists of references from those recent articles.

Electronic Journals in Food Science

Type the word "food" into the keyword search box at the Library's Electronic Journals site: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ej/. You can also use the "Get it" button from the search results in any database using Get it. Alternatively, you can use Delcat keyword, using the Search Journals/Serials section.

Web Resources for : Research Sites

You may want to check the Library's guide to Searching the Internet. See also the Cambridge database Biological Sciences Set, which includes subject search results in the form of web pages.

Research Sites

Institute of Food Technologists
The Institute of Food Technologists is “the premier scientific and educational society serving the food science and technology field.” The site provides links to several publications, a listing of meetings and expositions, continuing education programs, and employment information, as well as a listing of regional sections and subject divisions. Also included is “WorldFood Net,” a suppliers and buyers directory.
Food Safety Research Information Office
Established by USDA in 2001, its mission is stated: “FSRIO was established to support the food safety research community with an online database. This database is a tool for food safety research and policy planning. It includes detailed information on over 500 food safety research projects by U.S. Federal agencies from 1998 to the present, and links to food safety research information.” Included are over 100 links to web pages covering food safety from government and private sources.

Citing References, Using the CBE Style Manual

Citing your information is important for two reasons: to help other readers trace your work and find out exactly where to find additional information that you found useful; and to let the reader know that information you are providing is from a specific source, so you don't misrepresent the information as your own. The Library strongly recommends that you use the citation software RefWorks, which is a free database and allows you to store and format in proper style all of your citation information. It also works with Word documents to insert text references and create a bibliography.

The accepted citation style in the biological sciences comes from the Council of Science Editors (formerly known as CBE). To cite printed material, such as books and journal articles, you can refer to a useful page from the University of Wisconsin, CBE Documentation , at http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocCBE.html . I recommend that you look for the link to "Create a reference list."

For citing sources found on the internet, whether they are journal articles online or Web pages from organizations, you need to cite somewhat differently. A good summary of their rules is at the Citation Styles Online! web site, found at http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite8.html . The Council of Science Editors points to a site on how to do this at: Citing the Internet: Formats for Bibliographic Citation. You can go directly to this information at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/formats/internet.pdf

This page is maintained by Frederick Getze, Branch Libraries Department.
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Last modified: 9/3/09