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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.
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.