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| Updated 2015-08-15 | |
| Scientific Literature |
One of the more important sources of food composition data is the scientific literature (EuroFIR Acquisition Type: Published and peer reviewed scientific paper [P]).
| Searching scientific literature |
The bibliographic databases are databases of bibliographic records, organized digital collections of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents, books, etc.
A significant number of bibliographic databases are still
proprietary, available by licensing agreement from vendors, or
directly from the indexing and abstracting services that create
them.
There are however a wide range of public search engines. The most important of these search engines are
For a comprehensive list of academic databases and search engines, see Wikipedia.
Libraries often offer special purpose search facilities. One of the best is Wageningen University Library's Global Search, which offers a cross-database search facility covering a long range of bibliographic databases and indeces.
Another important free service on the internet is Google Scholar providing a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Where possible, Google Scholar points to online copies of the literature.
| Scientific journals and periodicals |
There is a wide range of scientific journals/periodicals and other resources available worldwide, the most important concerning food composition data are:
and many, many more.
Although most scientific journals are proprietary and full texts only available by licensing, a growing number of journals are open access journals, which give access to the full texts of articles free of charge - for a list of open access journals, see ScienceMedia.
| Open Access Journals - a caution |
Although most open access journals generally are trustworthy and eligible, there are some dubious online journals that only want to get your money and has no peer-review.
Scholarly Open Access maintains 'Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers' and 'Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals'. If you are in doubt about an online journal, refer to these lists.
| References |
- Wikipedia - List of academic databases and
search engines
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines]
- Wageningen University Library's Global Search
[http://wur.primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=WUR&reset_config=true]
- Google Scholar
[http://scholar.google.com/]
- Science Media - ArgosBiotech - Open Access Jounals
[http://www.sciencemedia.de/]
- Scholarly Open Access - Critical analysis of scholarly
open-access publishing
[http://scholarlyoa.com/]
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