agora basic course: module 4: cab abstracts

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 agora@fao.org