FSTA
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VisitFSTA vs JSTOR
What both publish
| Fact | FSTA | JSTOR |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | IFIS describes FSTA as serving researchers, scientists, students, libraries, corporate research labs and government agencies. | JSTOR describes its platform as serving research, teaching, and learning, with solutions for librarians, educators, students, and researchers. |
| Founded | 1969 | LinkedIn lists JSTOR’s founding year as 1995. |
| Purpose | FSTA is a literature-search database for food science and related fields, including food and health sciences. | JSTOR is an interactive research and learning platform with primary and secondary sources across more than 70 disciplines. |
| Search | Records are indexed using IFIS’s food thesaurus of more than 16,000 terms to support targeted searches. | The platform offers advanced search and discovery with filters for content type, subject and other metadata. |
FSTA plans
- FSTA corporate pay-as-you-goPriced on request
- FSTA subscriptionPriced on request
JSTOR plans
- Read onlyFree
- JPASS Monthly$19.50 a month
- JPASS Annual$199 a year
- JPASS Yearly$199 a year
- Institutional accessPriced on request
Pick FSTA if…
FSTA suits researchers, scientists, students, librarians, academic libraries, corporate research labs, and government agencies. It is intended for organizations needing multidisciplinary food and health science literature searching.
Pick JSTOR if…
JSTOR suits students, educators, librarians, and researchers looking for multidisciplinary scholarly content. It may also fit people who need tools to organize and annotate research materials.