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In the News . . .

• Beyond Citation -- The Scout Report, November 11, 2016, Volume 22, Number 44
  ["Researchers, students, and instructors use academic databases to find scholarship on topics of interest. Yet it is difficult to get information about how these databases work and what materials are included in - or left out of - them. In response to this challenge, a group of students in a Digital Praxis Seminar at the City University of New York (CUNY) created Beyond Citation, a website dedicated to providing the public with information and analysis about major academic search engines. As of this writing, Beyond Citation features explorations of thirteen major databases, including Google Books, Project MUSE, HathiTrust Digital Library, JSTOR, and ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Each database record includes an Overview outlining what the database contains, available Reviews of each database, and information about Access. In addition, readers will also find a useful Conversations feature, which offers links to outside analysis and criticism about the selected database. Beyond Citation not only helps researchers critically evaluate databases, but also teaches researchers how to use these databases most effectively." [MMB, -- The Scout Report, November 11, 2016, Volume 22, Number 44]
  
  
• Chrzan, Janet, and John Brett (Eds.). Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Food Studies. Brooklyn, NY: Berghahn, 2016.

• Belasco, Warren. Food: The Key Concepts. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2009.
  Chrzan, Janet, and John Brett (Eds.). Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Food Studies. Brooklyn, NY: Berghahn, 2016.
  
  
• Claflin, Kyri W. and Peter Scholliers. Writing Food History: A Global Perspective. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2012.
  
  
• Coleman, Leo (Ed.). Food: Ethnographic Encounters. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2011.
  
  
• DATA.GOV
  ["Data.gov is part of the U.S. government's ongoing efforts to make government agency data accessible to the general public and available for use by individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations, and web developers. This site contains over 183,000 data sets from 77 different agencies and sub-agencies of the government, including the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Education. Anyone can search the data sets or browse for data by agency or topic. Data.gov is designed to encourage the practice of "civic hacking," a practice of using open government data to increase civic engagement and connect citizens with useful information. Data.gov provides examples of how citizens, local governments, businesses, and consumer organizations have used their data. In addition, the site includes links to a variety of software applications that utilize this open government data that may be of interest to citizens." (MMB--The Scout Report, July 15, 2016, Volume 22, Number 27)]
  
  
• Food, Culture, and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
  
  
• Macbeth, Helen, and Jeremy MacClancy (Eds.). Researching Food Habits: Methods and Problems. NY: Berghan, 2004.
  
  
• Miller, Jeff, and Jonathan Deutsch. Food Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2009.
  
  
• Murcott, Anne, Warren Belasco, and Peter Jackson (Eds.). The Handbook of Food Research. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2013.
  
  
• Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, Revised and Expanded Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
  
  • Blog and Website
  • book information from the University of California Press
  • "Food Politics: Personal Responsibility vs. Social Responsibility" (video archive) -- keynote address of the 2010 Nobel "Making Food Good Conference," Gustavus Adolphus College