Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS

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Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS

• Field Searching
• CABICODES
• The CAB Thesaurus
• Search Limits

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Free-Text Index

• English Item Title TI
• Original Item Title OT
• Abstract AB
• Descriptor Index DE/SH
• Organism Descriptors OD
• Geographic Location GL CABI Indexing
  Fields
• Identifiers ID
• Broad Terms BT

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Title Fields

• The title of the original article
• All records have an English title (TI)
• non-English articles may have an Original
  Language title (OT)
• Word searchable
• Useful for reference searching
• Examples
• Cattle production.TI.
• (Forestry AND Ecotourism).TI.

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Authors and Editors

• Personal Authors (AU)
• Author variations included
• Editors names included in AU
• Search as complete names
• e.g. smith t a.AU.
• smith .AU.
• Browse the Free-Text index
• Corporate Authors (CA)
• Remember variations
• e.g. World Health Organization.CA.
• WHO.CA.

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Indexing Fields(Descriptors)

• Organism Descriptors (OD)
• Geographic Location (GL or GE on Ovid)
• Descriptor Index (SH)
• (Searched Displayed as Subject Headings, SH)
• Broad Terms (BT)
• Identifiers (ID)

Note 1 The SH field is Phrase Indexed Note 2
Searching .DE. Searches SH, GE and OD and is
Word/Phrase indexed. Note 3 Searching .SU.
Searches SH, GE, OD, ID and BT and is Word
indexed
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DE, OD and GE

• Controlled Terms from the CAB Thesaurus
• Manually added by CABI Indexers
• Added at the specific concept level
• SU field tag searches all three at once.
• Examples
• Cattle.OD.
• Nitrogen fertilizers.SH.
• (rice and irrigation and south east asia).SU.

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Broad Terms

• Automatically added to records
• Only added for OD and GL terms
• All levels of Broad terms are added
• Examples
• Coleoptera.BT
• Animals.BT.

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Identifiers

• Non-Thesaurus Terms
• New concepts
• Potential future Thesaurus terms
• Also included in the SU index
• e.g.
• Boring insects.ID.
• Aeolesthes holosericea.SU.

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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
• Note only the codes are in the Free-Text index.
  Words are searched with the CW tag

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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
  TreesKK500 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
• KK160.CC. AND Urban Development
• KK.CC. AND management.DE.
• Forest Products.CW.

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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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Limit Fields

• Publication Year (YR) - Year of publication of
  the original article.
• Language of text (LA) - Language of the original
  text.
• Publication Type (PT) - Type of original
  publication , e.g. book, journal, etc.
• Abstracts
• Ovid Full Text Available

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Thank You

• Chris Ison
• Sales and Training Manager
• c.ison_at_cabi.org