Library & LR news

If you look to the right of the library staff desk in our Holbeach Campus LRC, you’ll see a new bit of library furniture…

We’ve invested in a little digital photo frame which we’re now using to display a slideshow of the ‘top 30′ electronic journals for food manufacturing and agriculture.

(Image: our new digital photo frame in situ!)

Each slide displays essential information about one e-journal title – its publication details, a copy of the cover of the most recent issue, and the details of the University of Lincoln’s full-text online access to that e-journal.

You’ll also see a couple of options on each slide for getting access to that title online via our e-journals A-to-Z:

1. A short-form web link (example: http://nn.nf/002c), designed to be easy for you to note down;
2. The same link encoded as a black & white, two-dimensional barcode known as a QR Code. If you have a smartphone / camera phone with the correct software, you can use it to scan the QR code, and your phone’s web browser should take you straight to the e-journal. (QR codes seem to be taking off in libraries… I’d be interested to hear whether you think they’re a useful feature or not.)

(Image: an example of a QR Code)

We’ll be keeping the digital photo frame up to date with the top 30-ish e-journals in the subjects of food manufacturing, food science & technology, and agriculture.

For the moment, the following titles are in the frame:

• Biotechnology Progress (issn:8756-7938)
• Chemical Senses (issn:0379-864X)
• Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (issn:1541-4337)
• Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition (issn:1040-8398)
• European Food Research & Technology (issn:1438-2377)
• Food and Chemical Toxicology (issn:0278-6915)
• Food Biophysics (issn:1557-1858)
• Food Chemistry (issn:0308-8146)
• Food Control (issn:0956-7135)
• Food Hydrocolloids (issn:0268-005X)
• Food Manufacture*** (issn:0015-6477)
• Food Microbiology*** (issn:0740-0020)
• Food Quality and Preference (issn:0950-3293)
• Food Research International (issn:0963-9969)
• Food Technology*** (issn:0015-6639)
• Fresh Produce Journal (Freshinfo) (issn:0967-6899)
• Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies (issn:1466-8564)
• International Dairy Journal (issn:0958-6946)
• International Journal of Food Microbiology (issn:0168-1605)
• Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry (issn:0021-8561)
• Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering (issn:1389-1723)
• Journal of Cereal Science (issn:0733-5210)
• Journal of Dairy Science (issn:0022-0302)
• Journal of Food Composition and Analysis (issn:0889-1575)
• Journal of Food Engineering*** (issn:0260-8774)
• Journal of Food Science (issn:0022-1147)
• LWT – Food Science and Technology (issn:0023-6438)
• Meat Science (issn:0309-1740)
• New Scientist*** (issn:0262-4079)
• Personnel Today*** (issn:0959-5848)
• Postharvest Biology and Technology (issn:0925-5214)
• The Vegetable Farmer*** (issn:0960-863X)
• Trends in Food Science & Technology (issn:0924-2244)

***Asterisked titles are also available as current subscriptions in paper (yes, paper!) format in the library collection at Holbeach.