CAB Abstracts on CAB Direct Chris Ison International
CAB Abstracts on CAB Direct Chris Ison International Training Manager
Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS on CAB Direct l Field Searching l CABICODES l The CAB Thesaurus l Subject Codes l Additional Fields l Search Limits
Free-Text Index l l l l l English Item Title Original Item Title Conference Title Personal Authors/Editors Corporate Authors Source Title Publisher Abstract Descriptor Organism Descriptor Geographic Location Identifier Broad Term CAS Registry Numbers CABICODES ISSN/ISBN DOI CABI Record Number CABI Indexing Fields
Database fields and their search tags, found in the Help file.
The CAB Direct Help File with links to two useful user guides in PDF file format.
Other guides can be found at www. cabi. org via “Database users” link.
CAB Direct guides. Short video tutorials. Sample searches.
Title Fields l The title of the original article l All records have an English title l non-English articles may have an Original Language title l Additional Title l Word searchable l Useful for reference searching Examples: title: ”cattle production” title: (forestry AND ecotourism)
Authors and Editors Personal Authors Author variations included Editors’ names included in author search Search as complete names e. g au: smith-j-a l Corporate Authors included in Author search but also searchable separately using ca: l Remember variations e. g. ca: "world health organization" ca: (world health organization) ca: who l l
Index Fields - Descriptors l. Organism Descriptor l. Geographic Location l. Descriptor l. Broad Term (Up-Posted term) l. Identifier
Descriptor, Organism Descriptor & Geographic Location l Controlled Terms from the CAB Thesaurus l Manually added by CABI Indexers l Added at the specific concept level l Subject field tag (subject) searches all three at once Examples: od: cattle de: "nitrogen fertilizers" subject: (rice and irrigation and "south east asia")
Broad Term l Automatically added to records l Only added for Organism Descriptor and Geographic Location terms l All levels of Broad terms are added Examples: up: coleoptera up: animals up: "developing countries"
Identifiers l Non-Thesaurus Terms l New concepts l Potential future Thesaurus terms l Included as part of Subject search (subject) e. g. id: "cultivated varieties"
CABICODES l Subject classification l 23 broad subject areas l Hierarchical structure l Used as well as descriptors l At least one per record l Useful for searching broad concepts
CABICODES KK 000 KK 110 KK 120 KK 130 KK 140 KK 150 KK 160 KK 515 KK 520 KK 530 KK 540 KK 600 Forestry, Forest Products and Agroforestry General) Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology) Silviculture and Forest Management Forest Mensuration and Management (Discontinued March 2000) Forest Fires Protection Forestry (Discontinued March 2000) Other Land Use (Discontinued March 2000) Ornamental and Amenity Trees Forest Products and Industries (General) Wood Properties, Damage and Preservation Logging and Wood Processing Wood Utilization and Engineered Wood Products Chemical and Biological Processing of Wood Non-wood Forest Products Agroforestry and multipurpose Trees: Community farm and social forestry
CABICODES Examples: cc: kk 160 AND "Urban Development" cc: kk* AND de: management
The CAB Thesaurus l CABI’s Controlled indexing vocabulary l Over 90, 000 terms l Hierarchically structured l Preferred Terms l Broad Terms l Narrow Terms l Related Terms l Use for Terms l Integrated search tool
The CAB Thesaurus as an integrated User Guide.
Search for the term of interest, e. g. Fertilizers.
Click term to show the hierarchy.
“Add” terms to the search box and Send to CAB Direct.
Subject Codes l Classification codes l Broad subject codes l Coding to CABI Full Text l Searched using the SC field tag e. g. "transgenic plants " and sc: (fr or fa) environment and management and sc: 0 f tourism and sc: gb A full list of Subject Codes can be found at: http: //www. cabi. org/Uploads/File/User%20 Guides/cabisubjectcodes. pdf
CABI Full Text Databases – Subset Codes. ● CAB Full Text FT ● Full Text Descriptions of Fungi & Bacteria FX ● Full Text Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases FW ● Full Text Distribution Maps of Plant Pests FV ● Full Text Reviews (Archive) FA ● Full Text Reviews (Current) FR ● CABI ebooks entire file GB ● CABI ebooks archive file GA ● CABI ebooks front file GF
Source Title l Title of Complete Original Document l Searched as "Document Title" do: l Search words or complete title e. g. do: nature do: (annals of applied biology) do: lancet do: (lancet british edition)
Limit Fields l Publication Year - Year of publication of the original article l Language of Text - Language of the original article l Document Type - Type of original publication: e. g. book, journal, etc. l Records Added Since - Database update l CABI Full Text - Records with links to free, CABI Full Text articles
Limits to records with links to any CABI Full Text database PDF file.
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