Research Guides: Food Science: Databases, Journals, and Statistics

Search Databases, Journals, and Statistics relevant to Food Science research

For a list of all databases available through University of Arkansas Libraries, search the Databases A-Z list.

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Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA)
Covers: 1969-. Covering all areas of food science, products, and technology, FSTA indexes journals published throughout the world, as well as books, proceedings, reports, patents, and legislation.

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Access Science
Covers: current. The online successor to McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, including recent research developments, biographies, data, tables, news references, illustrations and related links.
AGRICOLA (EBSCO)
Covers: 1970-. Compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA indexes journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
AGRIS (FAO)
Covers: 1970-. Provides worldwide bibliographic coverage of agricultural science and technology literature and offers an international perspective on crucial agricultural research over 135 participating countries.
CHEMnetBASE Databases
A collection of reference works for chemistry, including:
Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD), The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics, and more.
CAB Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)
Covers: 1910- .Produced by the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, this index covers the subject of agriculture in the broadest sense. It includes: agronomy, biotechnology, crop protection, dairy science, economics, environmental degradation and remediation, forestry, genetics, herbicides, irrigation, leisure, recreation and tourism, microbiology, nutrition, parasitology, rural development, veterinary medicine, and much more. Journals, monographs, conferences, books, annual reports, and other sources.
Google Scholar
Indexes hundreds of open access and subscription journals, books from the WorldCat database, conference papers and proceedings, white papers, and other academic materials posted on the Web. Google Scholar is not as comprehensive as many subject databases, but it is useful in that it provides one handy place to search across many different disciplines and subject areas.
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Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Online
The online Handbook of Chemistry and Physics provides data such as physical constants, weights and measures, conversion tables, material properties, and much more. A part of the CHEMnetBASE collection.
Hospitality and Tourism Complete
Covers: 1931-. Indexes and offers full text for scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
Covers: 2006-. JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is the world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal. JoVE Education provides video demonstrations of concepts and methods in biology, chemistry, clinical medicine, engineering, physics, and psychology as well as lab manuals with step-by-step instructions. JoVE Research provides videos of research results in biology, chemistry, engineering, medicine, psychology, and related fields.
MEDLINE Complete (EBSCO)
Covers 1950-. A comprehensive index from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, covering journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine. Includes all areas of human and veterinary medicine, dentistry, nutrition, toxicology, pathology, public health, and health services administration. MEDLINE is a part of the National Library of Medicine's PubMed information suite.
ProQuest Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
Offers environmental science related full-text articles, environmental impact statements, and indexing from Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM). Within the Environmental Science Collection are the specialized databases Agricola, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), Bacteriology Abstracts, Biotechnology Research Abstracts, Ecology Abstracts, Environment Abstracts, Pollution Abstracts, Toxicology Abstracts, TOXLINE, and Water Resources Abstracts.
PubAg Now part of NAL Search
Covers 1996-. A portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research. PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, extramural research, and extension education. A part of the AGRICOLA family of products,
PubAg contains full-text articles relevant to the agricultural sciences, along with citations to peer-reviewed journal articles."
PubMed
Covers: 1950-. A service of the National Library of Medicine that includes citations from MEDLINE and biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Offers comprehensive coverage of all areas of human and veterinary medicine, dentistry, nutrition, toxicology, pathology, public health, and health services administration.
SciFinder-n
Covers: 1907-. SciFinder is an easy-to-use interface to Chemical Abstracts and related databases, including: the CAS Registry of chemicals, reactions data, sources for chemical purchasing, and the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database. Individual registration required.
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Web of Science
Covers: 1945-. Indexes high-impact journals in all disciplines. It allows researchers to determine who has cited whom, to track citations, and to find articles that share many references in common.
Use the "Editions" drop down to limit your search to arts and humanities, social sciences, or sciences.

Statistics and Data

National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
Covers: 1997-. Collects and provides statistics for crop yields, trade, demographics, education, and many subsections, such as the National Conservation Defense Service. Includes historical and recent Agricultural censuses.
Sage Data
Covers: 2010- . Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are over 52 billion data points available in charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables in the Data-Planet repository.
Statista
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

Special Collections at UARK

Arkansas Agricultural Publications Archive
Covers 1910s-. Collections digitized by the University Libraries.
Digital Collections (University of Arkansas)
Overs thousands of documents, images, sound files, and more from our collections. Organized by project, such as U of A Yearbooks, the Arkansas Traveler, Agricultural Extension, or Fayetteville and campus history.

Systematic Reviews

Campbell Collaboration
Covers: 2000-. Offers a hub for social science systematic reviews. Includes systematic reviews plus evidence and gap maps related to ageing, business and management, crime and justice, disability, education, international development, knowledge translations and implementation, methods, social welfare, children and young person's wellbeing, etc..
Cochrane Library
Covers: 1995-. Provides evidence-based reviews, including abstracts and summaries of systematic reviews.
Systematic Reviews for Animals and Food (SYREAF)
Covers: 2016-. Provides a site for the publication of review protocols. Currently, there are few locations where reviewers working in feed and food reviews can pre-publish review protocols