LINUS January 2002 : Electronic Resources
Food Science & Technology Abstracts Guide
Hew Yik Suan, Science Library
Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) is produced by the International Food Information Service. It covers all areas of food science, food technology and human nutrition, including basic food science, biotechnology, toxicology, packaging and engineering. FSTA indexes 1,800 publications in over 40 languages, including journals, reviews, standards, legislation, patents, books, theses and conference proceedings. FSTA is split into two files, one for 1969 to 1989 and another for 1990 to current.
Access
- Point your Web browser to http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/.
- Click on Digital Library.
- Under Browse by Title, click on Indexes and Abstracts and Continue.
- Click on Food Science and Technology Abstracts in the list shown.
- Select the years of FSTA you want to search from the list of databases in SilverPlatter and click on Open Selected Databases.
Search
At the search screen, type your keywords in the box and press ENTER or click on Start Search. By default, it searches for the words anywhere in the record and this casts the widest net to retrieve the most records.
Search tips are available at the bottom of the search screen with more information from the Help button in the right-hand column.
Tips and Techniques for Searching
By Words Anywhere
- The Words Anywhere search locates records that contain the keywords in any field within the record.
- By Title
- Select Title to search the keywords in the Title field. The Title search generates fewer records than Subject or Words Anywhere searches.
- By Author
- Click on Author and type the author name in the Find box.
For example : Martin-A* will generate records with the name A (or AL or Alex, and so on).
You can also search by typing the author's name in the Index field. - By Subject
- The search will look for the keyword in the Subject fields of the records.
Using the Words Anywhere, Subject or Title button is a simple but powerful way to control your search results.
Truncation
You can use the truncation symbol (*) to search for variants of a search term. For example, a search for preserve* will retrieve records that include the words preserve, preservation, preservatives or preserved.
Wildcard
The wildcard symbol (?) represents one character or none. For example, a search for colo?r will find records that include the words color or colour.
Boolean Operators
Boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR, NEAR) can be used to combine two or more keywords for a more specific search.
Limits
You can use Limit Your Search to narrow the search results using criteria like Language of Text is English; Subject Code is Milk and Publication Year between 1995 and 2001. The limits set would apply for the entire session, until you click on Clear All Limits or until you logout.
Search Builder
Search Builder shows you how to focus your search by searching in specific database fields, combining multiple terms with the Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), and applying limits.
Index
If you are uncertain of what words to use when conducting a search, use the Index field to select terms from an alphabetical list of all searchable words in the database. The Index includes hyphenated phrases as well as variations of authors' names.
Search Example
Let us do a keyword truncation search using the truncation symbol *, which substitutes for a string of zero or more characters. Type your search term antibiotic* in the FIND box and click on Start Search.
View Search Results
A list of records that match your search statement is shown. Note that search terms are highlighted in bold.
Click on View Complete Record at the end of the record to see the record with the descriptors used including all other fields. There are hyperlinks to related records in FSTA. For example, you can click on the author's name to find all records matching that particular author or click on the journal name to find all records for that journal.
Complete Record
AN: 2002-01-H0143
TI: Multidrug resistance as a dominant molecular marker in transformation of wine yeast.
AU: Kozovska-Z; Maraz-A; Magyar-I; Subik-J
AD: Correspondence (Reprint) address, J. Subik, Dep. of Microbiol. & Virology, Fac. of Natural Sci., Comenius Univ., 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia. Tel. +42 12 6029 6631. Fax +42 12 6542 9064. E-mail subik@fns.uniba.sk
PY: 2001
SO: Journal-of-Biotechnology; 92 (1) 27-35, 23 ref..
FTXT: Link to > ScienceDirect (tm)
NU: 0168-1656
DT: Journal-Article
LA: En (English)
SC: H Alcoholic-and-non-alcoholic-beverages
AB: A dominant selectable marker for use in winemaking strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is described. The marker is a mutated form of the PDR3 gene, pdr3-9. The pdr3-9 mutant protein acts as a gain-of-function transcriptional activator responsible for the establishment of a multidrug resistant phenotype due to the overexpression of several membrane drug efflux pumps. S. cerevisiae transformants were resistant to strobilurin and azoles. Microvinification experiments were undertaken using host and transformed strains. Chemical and sensory analysis of wines revealed that the transformants retained all their useful winemaking properties, which suggests that the pdr3-9 allele does not impair the technological properties of transformed strains. In addition, random amplification of DNA and electrophoretic karyotyping of host and transformed strains gave similar results.
DE: ANTIBIOTICS-; GENE-CLONING; SACCHAROMYCES-; WINEMAKING-; YEASTS-WINE; ANTIBIOTICS-RESISTANCE; MARKER-GENES; OENOLOGICAL-PROPERTIES; SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE; WINE-YEASTS
UD: 200201
If you see a Link to button in the FTXT field followed by a publisher's name, click on the Link to button to connect directly to full-text documents on the publishers' Web sites. These links are created by "the SilverLinker Database which provides URL links from citations to full-text articles in electronic journals hosted by a growing list of publishers and subscription agents" like Academic Press, Springer-Verlag, Johns Hopkins University Press, SwetsNet Navigator and Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Search History
At the search screen, click on Show Search History in the bottom frame, to view all searches done during the search session. You can use your search history to display the records from any of your searches, or to rerun searches against new databases. You can combine selected search sets with the Boolean operators AND and OR. You can save your search history by clicking on Save History. Click on Load History to recall previously saved search history to run them again when the database has been updated.
Click on Change Display to change the number of records displayed onscreen at any one time, choose the field labels you want to use, select the fields you want to include, sort the search results and select how the results are shown.
Marking Records
Mark the records you want by clicking in the square box at the beginning of the record.
Save or Print Records
Mark the records you want to save and click on Save or Print. You can specify the records you want and the fields you want to include. Select other information to include, such as search history, records numbers and field labels. Click on Save Records or Print Records.
Email Records
Mark the records you want to email, and click on E-mail. Type your e-mail address and mail subject. Specify the records you want to e-mail and the fields you want to include. Click on Mail Records.
Hot Tip
You can quickly build up your list of references with just a little additional editing.
- Mark the records you want from the set.
- Click on Show Marked Records.
- Click on Change Display and choose to sort by author (if you are listing by author).
- Click on Save or E-mail and choose Citation format or Selected fields for better control of the fields downloaded and make sure Field labels is not ticked. Click on Save Records /Mail Records.
- Open the file with Word to do further editing.
Logout
When you are finished using the database, remember to click on Logout to release the session for other users.
WebSPIRS Tutorials
SilverPlatter has developed a series of 10 different online tutorials that teach users how to search selected databases. SilverPlatter's Online Tutorials are available at http://www.silverplatter.com/tutor/mainintro.html.
Last updated on 2/1/2002 © National University of Singapore Library
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