Advanced Searching of CAB Abstracts with WinSPIRS

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Advanced Searching of CAB Abstracts with WinSPIRS

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

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Free-Text Index

• English Item Title TI
• Original Item Title OT
• Personal Authors AU
• Editors ED
• Corporate Authors CA
• Authors Address AD
• Source SO
• Publisher PB
• Abstract AB
• Descriptors DE
• Organism Descriptors OD
• Geographic Descriptors GE CABI
  Indexing Fields
• Identifiers ID
• Broad Terms BT
• CAS Registry Numbers RN
• CABICODES CC
• CABICODE Headings CD

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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
• e.g.
• Cattle production in TI
• (Forestry AND Ecotourism) in TI

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Authors and Editors

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

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Index FieldsDescriptors

• Organism Descriptors (OD)
• Geographic Descriptors (GE)
• Descriptors (DE)
• Broad Terms (BT)
• Identifiers (ID)

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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
• e.g.
• Cattle in OD
• Nitrogen fertilizers in DE
• (rice and irrigation and south east asia) in SU

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Broad Terms

• Automatically added to records
• Only added for OD and GE terms
• All levels of Broad terms are added
• e.g.
• Coleoptera in BT,OD
• Animals in BT

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Identifiers

• Non-Thesaurus Terms
• New concepts
• Potential future Thesaurus terms
• e.g.
• Sinorhizobium-meliloti in id

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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

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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

• e.g.
• KK160 in CC AND Urban Development
• KK in CC AND management in DE
• Forest Products in CD

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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

• Language of Text (LA)
• Language of Summaries (LS)
• Publication Type (PT)
• Publication Year (PY)
• Update Code (UD)
• URLs, etc.