agora basic course: module 4: cab abstracts
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CAB Abstracts
AGORA Basic Course: Module 4
How to Use CAB Abstracts What Is CAB Abstracts?• Internationally recognized database of
information for applied agriculture and life sciences
• Covers research and development literature from thousands of international serials
• Provides abstracts (brief article descriptions) and links to full-text articles
CAB Abstracts and AGORA• CAB generously offers a subset of CAB
Abstracts to AGORA users• It also provides full-text articles found in
AGORA• Covers about 50% of journals in AGORA• You must log in to AGORA and then open
CAB Abstracts (bottom of Content page)
Note: AGORA covers many general topics such as management, economics, research, law, population, statistics, etc. not covered by CAB. With the implementation of Summon, you will be able to search probably 95% of what is in AGORA, if not more.
Type in user name and password exactly as provided by your institution. Passwords are case-sensitive.
Click Sign In
Note: With the migration to a new authentication server (Jan 2014), we recommend use of Chrome or Mozilla. If you use Internet Explorer, you will need to login twice.
If you are using Internet Explorer, repeat the Login process on this 2nd page and you will be redirected to the AGORA Content page.
Using CAB Abstracts
After completing the Login, the Journals page will display; click on ‘Search inside AGORA full-text using CAB Abstracts’
Enter rice production AND pesticides and
click on Search
Displayed are the results from the rice production AND pesticides
search – 820 citations
Click on Journal home page – to
access the article
Note the complete citation to the journal article
Open v. 27 Special Issue – to view the full text article
Highlighted is the link to the full text article – from the Planta Daninha vol 27 Special Issue table of contents page
Click on full text to access the
highlighted article
Note that most articles have a brief abstract
Note the complete citation to the journal article
CAB Abstracts has linked to the Weed Science article - available in full text (html)
or PDF versions
To email, export and other personalised actions. click here
Scroll down for the full text and abstract
Now opened is the downloadable PDF
version of this article
Click on Full text icon to open ‘Cultivar and insecticide…’ article
CAB Abstracts has not been able to locate the article via the publisher’s
portal. Look for the article in AGORA.
Return to the CAB Abstracts search – to get the citation to the article
Open AGORA’s Content page. In the Journals collection A-Z list,
click on ‘E’ - to locate the Environmental Ecology journal
Click on Environmental Entomology - to access the
specific journal issue (vol 37 no. 1)
In other cases, the publisher’s offer may not include access to the requested journal and the ! icon would be displayed instead of the green icon
Open the specific issue – to access the full text article
While not accessible via CAB Abstracts, the article
is available from the AGORA Content page
Now opened is the html version of
the article.
Using the Search Wizard
Searches can be completed/limited by
using the Search Wizard
Click on the Search Wizard link
Now opened is the Search wizard option
Use the first drop down Menu - to refine your search using these
various limits
Also refine your search byusing these Boolean operators –
‘Optional’ is OR, ‘Required’ is AND and ‘Prohibited’ is NOT
Choosing ‘Required’ in thiscase means the article name
ought to have beans in it.
Enter deforestation soil erosion in the Search wizard
boxes with the ‘Any’ limit.Click on Search
To use more fields to Combine and further refine your search, click on Any
Results of the search are 74 articles
The search box contains the combination
of the terms
Enter maize production in the Search wizard boxes
with the ‘Descriptors’ limit.Click on Search
Results of the search are 869 articles
Using the same search terms and limits, add 2010 with the
‘Year of Publication’ limit
Results of the search are 26 articles
The search box contains the combination of the
terms – ‘Descriptors’ and ‘Year of Publication’
Enter rice production with the ‘Descriptors’ limit terms and add
Asia with the ‘Any’ limit
Results for this final search are 39 articles
CAB Abstracts
Exercises
This is the end of the AGORA Basic Course Module 4. Please complete the exercises for this module.
Then, please continue with AGORA Basic Course Module 5: Summon Searching
Updated February 2015
Questions? Contact [email protected]