Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS on CAB Direct

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Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS on CAB Direct

• Field Searching
• CABICODES
• The CAB Thesaurus
• Subject Codes
• Additional Fields
• Search Limits

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Free-Text Index

• English Item Title
• Original Item Title
• Additional Title
• Personal Authors
• Corporate Authors
• Authors Address
• Source
• Publisher
• Abstract
• Descriptor
• Organism Descriptor
• Geographic Descriptor
  CABI Indexing Fields
• Identifier
• Broad Term
• CAS Registry Numbers
• CABICODES
• CABICODE Headings

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Title Fields

• The title of the original article
• All records have an English title
• non-English articles may have an Original
  Language title
• Additional Title (AT)
• Word searchable
• Useful for reference searching
• Examples
• Cattle productionti
• (Forestry AND Ecotourism)ti

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Authors and Editors

• Personal Authors
• Author variations included
• Editors names included in author search
• Search as complete names
• e.g smith taau
• smith au
• Corporate Authors included in Author search
• Remember variations
• e.g. World Health Organizationau
• WHOau

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Index Fields - Descriptors

• Organism Descriptor
• Geographic Descriptor
• Descriptor
• Broad Term
• Identifier

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Descriptor, Organism Descriptor Geographic
Descriptor

• Controlled Terms from the CAB Thesaurus
• Manually added by CABI Indexers
• Added at the specific concept level
• Subject field tag (SU) searches all three at once
• Examples
• Cattleod
• Nitrogen fertilizersde
• (rice and irrigation and south east asia)su

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Broad Term

• Automatically added to records
• Only added for Organism Descriptor and Geographic
  Descriptor terms
• All levels of Broad terms are added
• Examples
• Coleopterabt
• Animalsbt
• NOTE to get all relevant records (specific and
  general) use, for example, Coleopterabt,su

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Identifiers

• Non-Thesaurus Terms
• New concepts
• Potential future Thesaurus terms
• Included as part of Subject search (su)
• e.g. Sinorhizobium-melilotiid

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CABICODES

• Subject classification
• 23 broad subject areas
• Hierarchical structure
• Used as well as descriptors
• At least one per record
• Useful for searching broad concepts

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CABICODES

• KK000 Forestry, Forest Products and Agroforestry
  General)KK100 Forests and Forest Trees (Biology
  and Ecology)KK110 Silviculture and Forest
  ManagementKK120 Forest Mensuration and
  Management (Discontinued March 2000)KK130
  Forest FiresKK140 Protection Forestry
  (Discontinued March 2000)KK150 Other Land Use
  (Discontinued March 2000)KK160 Ornamental and
  Amenity Trees Forest Products and Industries
  (General)KK510 Wood Properties, Damage and
  PreservationKK515 Logging and Wood
  ProcessingKK520 Wood Utilization and Engineered
  Wood ProductsKK530 Chemical and Biological
  Processing of WoodKK540 Non-wood Forest
  ProductsKK600 Agroforestry and multipurpose
  Trees Community farm and social forestry

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CABICODES

• Examples
• KK160cc AND Urban Development
• KKcc AND managementdescriptor
• Forest Productscc

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The CAB Thesaurus

• CABIs Controlled indexing vocabulary
• 56,000 terms
• Hierarchically structured
• Preferred Terms
• Broad Terms
• Narrow Terms
• Related Terms
• Use for Terms
• Integrated search tool

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Subject Codes

• Classification codes
• Broad subject codes
• Coding to CABI full text
• Searched using the SC field tag
• E.g.
• Transgenic Plants and (FR or FA)SC
• Environment and Management and 0FSC
• Tourism and GBSC
• A full list of Subject Codes can be found at
• http//www.cabi.org/datapage.asp?iDocID1076

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Limit Fields

• Publication Year - Year of publication of the
  original article
• Language of Text - Language of the original
  article
• Document Type - Type of original publication
  e.g. book, journal, etc.
• Records Added Since Database update date