The Library is currently trialling FOODnetBASE, a collection of electronic books and reference sources of food science, food technology and nutrition information. FoodNetBase covers a wide range of food industry topics from safety, regulations, and quality assurance to packaging, biotechnology and product development and includes publications from CRC Press, Marcel Dekker and Woodhead. Many of the titles are already held in the Massey Library in print and they tend to be regularly borrowed, so FOODnetBASE offers the promise of bringing some really useful books to the desktop. There are currently over 140 titles offered and they seem to be adding more quite regularly.
Access FOODnetBASE
The search box is in the top left hand corner. You need to use a Boolean "AND" if you are searching on more than one term - e.g. campylobacter AND gastroenteritis. Two or more words entered as a string without an intervening AND are searched for as a phrase - e.g. "hazard identification". Navigation to your search results is reasonably intuitive and the individual chapters load as PDF files which can be saved. Please get in touch with me if you are struggling with any of its features.
This trial is due to end on 2 December. We are really interested in your comments on both the content and usability of this product and on its suitability for research and use by students. In particular let us know whether access to the information in this form would be an acceptable substitute to the printed books. Please email your thoughts to Bruce White.
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