What's new in Oxford English Dictionary Online?

Did you know that Massey staff and students have access to the full Oxford English Dictionary Online? The print edition of the OED runs to over twenty volumes and is the definitive source for English language words and their derivations, but using the online edition you will be able to use the very latest words such as 'pheaker'.

EXPLORE OVER 2500 NEW AND REVISED WORDS...

The latest alphabetical range to be revised is PHILANTHROPAL-PIMENTO. Find out the latest definitions and quotations for everything from PHISHER (a person who perpetrates a fraud on the Internet in order to glean personal information from individuals) to PHEAKER (a person who fraudulently obtains a telephone or computer connection), from PHO (a type of Vietnamese soup) to PICO DE GALLO (a Mexican salad or salsa), and from PHWOAR (an expression of desire originating in Britain) to PHONEY BALONEY (a US term for nonsense).

Please see www.oed.com/help/updates/philanthropal-pimento.html for a full list of new and revised words in this range.

'ASBO' AND 'SARS' ENTER THE OED…

New entries have also been added across the alphabet – from ASBO (an acronym widely-used in Britain to describe an anti-social behaviour order) to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), and from LIFE COACH (a professional counsellor) to HUMAN BEATBOX (a person who uses their voice to imitate the rhythms of hip-hop music).

Please see www.oed.com/help/updates/philanthropal-pimento.html#oos for a full list of new entries from across the alphabet.

New Titles on FoodNetBase

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Part 1 reviews research on the range of contamination risks faced by food processors. Building on this foundation, Part 2 discusses current trends in the des... ISBN: 0849301203 - Poultry Meat Processing Poultry Meat Processing provides a clear, concise, and complete presentation of the theoretical and practical aspects of poultry meat processing. Learn the "what," "how," and "why" of the industry from the pre-slaughter environment to the handling of waste. This must-have guide is the first comprehensive treatment of poultry processing to appear in thirty years. Providing an instructional review of the scientific literature, each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert. They cover th... ISBN: 0824707494 - Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology, Second Edition Highlighting the role of dietary fats in foods, human health, and disease, this book offers comprehensive presentations of lipids in food. 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ISBN: 0824747801 - Handbook of Food and Beverage Fermentation Technology Over the past decade, new applications of genetic engineering in the fermentation of food products have received a great deal of coverage in scientific literature. While many books focus solely on recent developments, this reference book highlights these developments and provides detailed background and manufacturing information. Presenting a comprehensive overview, Handbook of Food and Beverage Fermentation Technology examines a wide range of starter cultures and manufacturing procedures... ISBN: 0824747127 - Handbook of Frozen Foods Frozen foods have the advantage of being very close in taste and quality to fresh foods as compared with other preserved or processed foods. They have become essential items in the retail food industry, grocery stores, convenience food stores, fast food services, and vending machines. Collecting an impressive amount of professional expertise on frozen food science, technology, and engineering, the Handbook of Frozen Foods describes the manufacture, processing, inspection, and safety of frozen f... ISBN: 0824747844 - Industrialization of Indigenous Fermented Foods, Second Edition Industrialization of Indigenous Fermented Foods, Second Edition presents the most recent innovations in the processing of a wide range of indigenous fermented foods ranging from soy sauce to African mageu. It serves as the only comprehensive review of indigenous fermented food manufacture from ancient production methods to industrialized processing technologies for clear understanding of the impact of fermented food products on the nutritional needs of communities around the world. Provi... ISBN: 0824789563 - Seafood and Freshwater Toxins: Pharmacology: Physiology, and Detection This volume focuses on the pharmacology, physiology, toxicology, chemistry, ecology and economics of seafood and freshwater toxins. It covers the biological aspects of the bloom, the effects and actions of each toxin with emphasis on human aspects, and the analytical and preparative options for neurotoxic, diarrhetic shellfish toxins, and hepatotoxic or neurotoxic freshwater cyanobacteria toxins. ISBN: 0824708008 - Using the Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Literature This reference provides the groundwork, tools, and terminology required when conducting specialized searches for information and resources pertaining to traditional and emerging fields of agriculture. The editors present 16 contributions from librarians and other information workers that offer information on research resources across the academic agricultural disciplines. They offer information on library catalog search strategies, abstracts and indexes, bibliographies and literature guides, sea... ISBN: 084939208X - Improving the fat content of foods As health problems such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease increase world wide, the food industry has come under fire to improve the nutritional quality of its products, especially the fat content. Summarizing key research, this collection examines both the influence of dietary fats on health and practical strategies for improving the fat content of food. Distinguished editors and an international team of contributors, review the evidence on the links between dietary fats and health. They d...

PubMed - Full Journal Titles in EndNote

Many researchers find searching the PubMed database a convenient alternative to Medline, which is a more fully-configured version of the same data, especially as PubMed records can be captured directly from EndNote. The disadvantage is that journal names in PubMed are abbreviated and are not suitable for use in citations and bibliographies. Fortunately full journal names can be made to appear in the output by modifying the Journal Title Term List.

When all the articles from PubMed have been captured in your EndNote library click on Tools/Open Term Lists/Journals Term List. This box shows all of the journals represented in the library (in their abbreviated form) - you are going to delete this list and replace it with the full list of Medline journals which comes with your EndNote software. Click on the first entry in the list, then scroll to the bottom of the list, hold down the shift key and click on the last one. This will highlight the whole list. Then click on the Delete Term button. Now click on the Lists tab and then Import List. Point at the Program Files/EndNote/Term Lists folder and select the file medical.txt. It will take a short time to import as their are nearly 9,000 titles in the list. Now close the Term List box.

One final step is needed for full journal names to display in output. Open your preferred bibliographic style by clicking on Edit/Output Styles and selecting the style you wish to use. Under Journal Name make sure that Use full journal name is selected. Click on File/Save and close the Edit Style window. Full journal names will now be used in this style. Use full journal name must be selected in any style you wish to use.

You may notice that some journal names are still appearing as abbreviations. This is because the journal was not covered by the imported list, but it can be added manually. Click on Tools/Open Term Lists/Journals Term List and then on New Term. Put the abbreviation under Abbreviation 1 and the full title under Full Journal. As you add new records from PubMed check to see whether you need to add more journal names to the list.