IFIS Publishing

Specialties

Established in 1968, IFIS is a leading international provider of food and health research and information.

IFIS produces FSTA®, also known as FSTA® — Food Science and Technology Abstracts, an extensive and specialist food science database of carefully selected content, which is collated, summarised, and indexed for efficient searching. The database is used by researchers, industry practitioners, and students around the world to keep up-​to-​date with new findings in their fields.

To provide high quality information to the global food community, IFIS works with EBSCO, IHS, Proquest, STN, Thomson Reuters, and Wolters Kluwer.

As a not-​for-​profit charitable organisation, IFIS is committed to advancing the discovery of food and health information, offering access to researchers in developing countries through the Research4Life programmes, HINARI and AGORA.

History

Established in 1968.

Originally known as the International Food Information Service, IFIS was established by the collaboration of four internationally renowned organisations:

— The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), USA

— The Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), UK

— Deutsche Landwirtschafts-​Gesellschaft e. V (DLG), Germany

— The Centrum voor Landbouw Publikaties en Landbouwdocumemtatie (PUDOC), Netherlands

Meet the Manager

Richard H.

Manager

Richard joined IFIS in 2010 as an experienced professional in the information industry, with a background in the successful development and management of international organisations. Richard has previously been Chief Development Officer of Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, and Vice President Sales & Marketing, EMEA at CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). Earlier in his career, he worked for ProQuest as Director of Sales, Asia Pacific. He has lived and worked in Malaysia and Japan.