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In this economically challenging time around the world, it is important to base your research on information from top quality journals from premier publishers. When searchers seek good, solid authoritative sources on the food and drinks industry they rely on Foodline databases on Dialog. Foodline's suite of databases includes Market, Science and Legal. In the following overview, we will focus on Foodline: SCIENCE, the free file of the month for November. You will see what this database contains and how it is vital for your research.
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Leatherhead Food Research, formerly Leatherhead Food International, an industry-leading food and drink research and advisory company, changed its name to signify the company's renewed focus on applied research and the provision of knowledge for the food sector. Leatherhead has a longstanding reputation in the delivery of regulatory, technical and market information services to the food industry. The company has played a key role in helping the food industry respond to a changing marketplace — ensuring that foods are safe, healthy, legal and appealing. Foodline: SCIENCE contains global content from 1972 to the present, updated twice weekly and is an essential tool for large multi-national to small and medium-sized enterprises including manufacturers, retailers and ingredients companies.
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Foodline: SCIENCE has broad-based coverage of major food and drink product sectors. Subject areas encompass a broad range such as basic research, processing, microbiology, nutrition and health, pest control and pesticides, sensory evaluation, composition and analysis, food safety, shelf-life, product development and innovation, waste treatment, retailing, biotechnology, environmental issues, hygiene, packaging, quality assurance and crisis management.
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Foodline: SCIENCE contains world class sources in a variety of areas from scientific journals to trade journals to patents and books. Some of the articles come from non-English journals that give the journal title in the language of the country and the abstract in English. Standards, statutory instruments and technical reports are also included. Examples of titles include Advances in Food Sciences, Dairy Industries International, Food Chemistry and Toxicology, to name some.
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A few statistics provide more detail about Foodline: SCIENCE. The database now contains 780,000 records plus from more than 300 key industry journals, books and patents with an annual growth of approximately 30,000 abstracted records per year. Foodline experts scan more than 1,000 patents per month. Approximately 4,000 separate book chapters and more than 500 book and conference titles are added each year. An important statistic is the currency of the database in that key journals are abstracted and available online within two weeks of delivery.
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Foodline: SCIENCE is an excellent starting point to begin a research project because of its authoritative sources worldwide. Foodline monitors advances in technology, new packaging innovations and novel applications of existing technology. Abstracts highlight the functionality of new ingredients. Information in Foodline can help you generate new product ideas, improve process performance and solve manufacturing problems. Literature from global sources in Foodline can also serve as a supplement for patent searches.
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Foodline uses a controlled vocabulary or thesaurus that's developed from the language employed in source publications. Although the thesaurus contains numerous scientific terms, it contains words like trends or shelf life, meeting the needs of researchers across a wide range of topics. New terms are added each year to the controlled vocabulary. All records are indexed in-depth; giving you the flexibility to search free-text across a record or take advantage of the powerful thesaurus.
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The following example illustrates the type of information you can find in Foodline: SCIENCE. For example, a topic on everyone's minds, young and old, is the idea of eating healthy food. Here's an article based on a search for this subject. Each record contains bibliographic citations and detailed abstracts of the full-text of articles.
A journal record is shown here. The top of the record shows the title, author, journal and date of publication. Next, you see that the record contains a detailed abstract, describing trends in nutrition in Europe. Lastly, are descriptors, the controlled vocabulary, that lets you find more terms for your search or modify the search accordingly.
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In this patent record the patent title, followed by inventors and patent assignee appear at the top of the record. Notice the patent number, in this case an EP patent, and the patent country.
The abstract of the patent follows. At the bottom of the record are comprehensive descriptors to help you select additional search terms for other searches on similar topics.
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As mentioned earlier, Foodline: SCIENCE covers numerous aspects of the food and drinks industry. This list of titles is on the search topic of trends on healthy food and dieting. As you review this list of titles, note that some are patents obtained by adding the limiter /pat to the search. The articles are all current—from 2009.
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As you can see, Foodline: SCIENCE (File 53) provides unique, relevant information about food and drink topics worldwide from reliable sources.
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This completes our overview of Foodline: SCIENCE. Thank you for your interest in this premier food and food technology database and put it on your list to try for free in November.
