CAB Abstracts on CAB DirectChris Ison

International Training Manager

Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS on CAB Direct

Field Searching

CABICODES

The CAB Thesaurus

Subject Codes

Additional Fields

Search Limits

Free-Text Index English Item Title Original Item Title Conference Title Personal Authors/Editors Corporate Authors Source Title Publisher Abstract Descriptor Organism Descriptor Geographic Location CABI Indexing Fields Identifier Broad Term CAS Registry Numbers CABICODES ISSN/ISBN DOI CABI Record Number

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.

Sample searches.

Short video tutorials.

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 Word searchable 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:smithau:smith-j-a

Corporate Authors included in Author search but also searchable separately using ca:

Remember variationse.g. ca:"world health organization"

ca:(world health organization)ca:who

Index Fields - Descriptors

Organism Descriptor

Geographic Location

Descriptor

Broad Term (Up-Posted term)

Identifier

Descriptor, Organism Descriptor & Geographic Location Controlled Terms from the CAB Thesaurus

Manually added by CABI Indexers

Added at the specific concept level

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 Automatically added to records

Only added for Organism Descriptor and Geographic Location terms

All levels of Broad terms are added

Examples:

up:coleoptera

up:animals

up:"developing countries"

Identifiers

Non-Thesaurus Terms

New concepts

Potential future Thesaurus terms

Included as part of Subject search (subject)

e.g. id:"cultivated varieties"

CABICODES

Subject classification

23 broad subject areas

Hierarchical structure

Used as well as descriptors

At least one per record

Useful for searching broad concepts

CABICODESKK000 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

CABICODES

Examples:

cc:kk160 AND "Urban Development"

cc:kk* AND de:management

The CAB Thesaurus

CABI’s Controlled indexing vocabularyOver 90,000 termsHierarchically structured

Preferred TermsBroad TermsNarrow TermsRelated TermsUse for Terms

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

Classification codes

Broad subject codes

Coding to CABI Full Text

Searched using the SC field tag

e.g.

"transgenic plants " and sc:(fr or fa)

environment and management and sc:0f

tourism and sc:gb

A full list of Subject Codes can be found at:

http://www.cabi.org/Uploads/File/User%20Guides/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

Title of Complete Original Document

Searched as "Document Title" do:

Search words or complete title

e.g.

do:nature

do:(annals of applied biology)

do:lancet

do:(lancet british edition)

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

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.