In addition to over 5,475 active and historical journals, FSTA indexes books, trade publications, reviews, conference proceedings, reports, patents, and standards, producing 22,675 sources overall. Updated weekly, its records are indexed against IFIS' thesaurus, which contains over 12,346 food science keywords, curated and structured into food-centric hierarchies.
With records dating back to 1969, FSTA contains information sources in 29 languages, sourced from publishers in over 60 countries.
Coverage includes all major commodities in the food and beverage industry, related applied and pure sciences, pet foods, food psychology, food economics, food safety, and more.2
FSTA can be accessed through EBSCOhost,3 Ovid,4 Proquest Dialog,5 STN6 and Web of Science.7
"IFIS Publishing - FSTA". IFIS Publishing - FSTA. IFIS. Retrieved 27 April 2017. http://foodinfo.ifis.org/fsta ↩
"FSTA" (online). IFIS. 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2017. http://foodinfo.ifis.org/fsta ↩
"EBSCOHost - FSTA". EBSCO. Archived from the original on 2012-06-09. Retrieved 27 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20120609021911/http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/fsta ↩
"Ovid - FSTA". Ovid. Retrieved 27 April 2017. http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/databases/93.jsp#horizontalTab1 ↩
"Dialog - FSTA" (PDF). Retrieved 27 April 2017 – via ProQuest. http://media2.proquest.com/documents/fsta_prosheet.pdf ↩
"STN - FSTA" (PDF). STN. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-25. Retrieved 27 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20121025223615/http://www.cas.org/File%20Library/Training/STN/DBSS/fsta.pdf ↩
"Web of Science - FSTA". Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20160108234927/http://thomsonreuters.com/en/products-services/scholarly-scientific-research/scholarly-search-and-discovery/fsta.html ↩