Dairy Science Abstracts

Textbooks and manuals of value in the dairy industry are not numerous the best are listed. Two thirds of the periodical dairy science literature appears in journals not devoted to dairy science. Abstract Journals must be consulted the most valuable of these is Dairy Science Abstracts. Bulletins are issued by miscellaneous sources such as experiment stations and research institutes. 

As a further example, the British Commonwealth Bureau of Dairy Science has listed (6) the periodical literature regularly searched in preparing Dairy Science Abstracts. This list is exclusive of bulletins, circulars, and reports issued irregularly by government departments, universities, research institutes, and experiment stations. Their latest list of periodicals contains some 453 titles of which only around 73 (or about 16%) are dairy journals. The geographical scope is world wide, including periodicals from such unlikely spots as the Isle of Man, Cyprus, and the Fiji Islands. Actually Dairy Science Abstracts obtains only about 35% of its abstracts from dairying journals. 

Undoubtedly the most adequate abstract journal is the British Dairy Science Abstracts, formerly a quarterly but, beginning in 1952, a monthly. The abstracts are logically arranged in eight sections, suitably subdivided. Thus the section on chemistry and physics is broken down into general, milk and milk products, processing and manufacture, analysis, and defects. This makes for economy of time and effort in scanning them. 

According to Marsden (21) in 1951 at least 6000 publications were examined yearly in preparing Dairy Science Abstracts, He states that prior to and immediately after World War II the annual average number of abstracts was from 1000 to 1500. Since 1949 the number has risen steeply to a figure close on 3000 per annum at the present time. One may therefore conclude that dairy research is emphatically growing and that it will be just so much more difficult to keep abreast of the literature. 

Adapted from Rook J A F 1961 Dairy Science Abstracts 23 251. 

Willett LB, Schanbacher FL, Durst HI, et al. 1988. Relationships between concentrations of polybrominated biphenyls detected in milk, blood and body fat of contaminated dairy cattle. In Proceedings of the 75 American Dairy Science Association Annual Meeting, Blacksburg, VA, Jime 15-18, 1980. [Abstract Pl34]. J Dairy Sci 63 (Suppl. 1) 144. 

From all of this it follows that anyone wishing to keep reasonably up-to-date with the progress of dairy science must trust to abstract journals. Chemical Abstracts has a rather limited range for the dairy field. Moreover papers of interest to the dairy chemist may be found not only in section 12 on foods but may also, according to subject matter, appear in such a section as analytical chemistry or in the subsection on nutrition under biochemistry. 

The alternative in this country is the abstract section of Iho Journal of Dairy Science ... 

Kalkschmidt-J. 1977. Ruehr- und Mischeimichtungen— unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung der Milch-wirtschaft. [Stirring and mixing equipment for the dairy industry.]. Fette,-Seifen,-Anstrichmittel 77(9) 357-359. Food Science Technol. Abstract 76-04-P0664. 

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