Starting a search
This guidance applies to bespoke collections and the predefined collections listed below: - Additives and processing aids - Animal foods - Bakery, cereals and grains - Cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionary - Dairy - Food manufacturing / processing - Food packaging - Food safety - Functional / Novel foods - Nutritional Science - Plant foods - Proteins - Sensory and consumer science - Sustainability
Patents are freely available online but often difficult to find. So, first, use IFIS Collections to identify the patents you need. Then use these three meth...
Mon, 19 Jun, 2023 at 5:08 PM
You will see a search box at the top left of the screen. You can type one or more search terms into this box. You can search your term(s) in all fields....
Mon, 19 Jun, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Yes. If you do this without using quotation marks, your terms will be searched as though they have an implicit Boolean operator AND between them. This ...
Fri, 5 Jan, 2024 at 4:10 PM
No. Because the search would search every single word you typed, this kind of searching will not work. Instead, think of the most important concepts that ...
Mon, 19 Jun, 2023 at 5:09 PM
Yes. If you want to limit different terms to different fields, you must use separate boxes for each, up to a limit of six. Adding multiple search boxes...
Mon, 19 Jun, 2023 at 5:11 PM
If you type a singular noun such as tomato, you will get results that contain both the singular and plural versions of the word - tomato and tomatoes. Typin...
Mon, 19 Jun, 2023 at 5:15 PM
If you type a term that can have other common endings, these endings might also be included in your search results. For example, if you type brown, you will...
Mon, 19 Jun, 2023 at 5:14 PM
IFIS Collections recognizes and adjusts for common spelling variations. For instance, searching for either organisation or for organization returns the same...
Mon, 19 Jun, 2023 at 5:14 PM
No. We recommend using other search methods in the IFIS Collections platform. Can I use a wildcard at the end of a word instead? Yes, but there are som...
Fri, 5 Jan, 2024 at 4:34 PM
You have three options for displaying your search results: Relevancy ranked will prioritize those results where your search term(s) appears in the titl...
Mon, 19 Jun, 2023 at 5:17 PM