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Food Science & Nutrition: Biostatistics, Chemistry, Mathematics

This guide provides resources on Food Science & Nutrition.

Books / eBooks

e-Resources (listed by title)

Use Mendeley to Generate Citations (Tutorials)

Common elements of a book citation

  • Author
  • Book Title
  • Publisher Location
  • Publisher
  • Publication Date
  • Format

Study Skills

Library Terminology: Glossary of Library Terms

Books provide a fundamental theory or in-depth coverage of a topic

Articles provide timely research on a very specific topic

Systematically organized or structured repository of indexed information (usually as a group of linked data files) that allows easy retrieval, updating, analysis, and output of data. This data could be in the form of graphics, reports, scripts, tables, text, etc. Databases house articles from journals and magazines and make them searchable. No single database contains all journals or articles, so it is best to search multiple databases.

Perpetual Purchase Model:

  • 1 User (default)

  • 3 Users

  • Unlimited Concurrent Users

Subscription Model:

  • Unlimited Concurrent Users

The term journal is often used for publications that contain academic articles. Journals can be issued once per year, twice per year, or even weekly. Each issue of the journal contains new articles. These issues are later combined to create volumes.

Journal Impact Factor (JIF) shows the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past two years that have been cited in the JCR year. This is how Journal IF of 2019 is calculated:

Calculation of Journal Impact Factor in the Year 2019:

 IF in 2019  =  No. of citations received in 2019 from all items published in 2017 and 2018  /  
No. of articles & reviews published in 2017 and 2018

e.g.

  • Impact Factor of 1.0 means that, on average, the articles published one or two years ago have been cited one time.
  • Impact Factor of 2.5 means that, on average, the articles published one or two years ago have been cited two and a half times.

The calculation is based on citations, hence publications in journals with higher IF may have higher chance of being cited as compared to publications published in journals with relatively lower IF.

Peer review is a process by which editors have experts in a field review books or articles submitted for publication by the experts’ peers. Peer review helps to ensure the quality of an information source by publishing only works of proven validity, methodology, and quality to prevent. the publication of articles that make false claims and misinform readers. Peer-reviewed journals are also called refereed or scholarly journals.

Further Studies

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